Best advice, don't panic

I think every parent goes through this, and with the advent of the internet it's getting worse.

If your kid is sick, be careful in overreacting.

Recently, our daughter was kind of ill. She had a fairly severe fever, was a little lethargic, and actually threw up for the first time in her life (she was 20 months old).

We panicked, and remembered how the day before, we found a tick in her room. Surely, she had contracted lyme disease. She had the symptoms, and certainly there had to be a connection.

Well...come to find out, that it takes a tick like 6 hours to give you anything at all, and there wasn't even a tick on her body. Bad diagnosis, Dad!

Turns out, she was more likely a little dehydrated and exausted, because she was bright and chipper a day later.

And turns out...the vomit was only because we took her on her first plane ride. Oops!

So rather than run to the internet and decide that your baby's hacking cough can certainly only be mesothelioma, or that her skin rash must certainly be ebola...just think calmly and realize it's either a bad cold or Roseola.