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What are breath-holding spells, the common phenomenon that causes children to faint?

  • Written by Shivanthan Shanthikumar, Respiratory Medicine Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then holds her breath. She turns blue around the mouth and faints.

This is understandably very scary for any parent. But the good news is these episodes, called breath-holding...

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