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Avoid testing with panels or specific IgE for possible food allergies without a thorough review of the child's medical history
Avoid continuing antibiotic treatment in newborns after 36–48 hours if blood cultures show no growth and the clinical condition is normal
Avoid routinely investigating or treating infant regurgitation with pH monitoring or acid-blockers and motility agents if the infant shows normal growth and development
Avoid administering systemic steroids to young children with respiratory symptoms except for moderate/severe laryngitis and acute bronchopulmonary obstruction with strong suspicion of atopic asthma
Avoid performing chest X-rays or repeated blood tests in bronchiolitis. Discontinue oxygen therapy and pulse oximetry when SpO₂ is >90% in room air
Avoid perforing urine testing in children >2 months with respiratory infection symptoms unless septic, predisposed to UTI, or presenting with urinary symptoms
Avoid performing abdominal X-rays in children with chronic abdominal pain
Avoid prescribing, recommending, or using cough suppressants or expectorants in children with cough or breathing difficulties
Avoid routinely give bronchodilators in infants presenting with bronchiolitis
Avoid routinely use antibiotics in children with acute otitis media who are over 1 year of age