PediBot

The same sourced answer, rewritten to be read aloud to a child aged 5 to 10: three to five short, warm sentences, no frightening words, one simple comparison and one thing the child can do. The medical content still comes only from published guidelines and the triage still runs first. For parent apps, school nurses and companion agents, in eight languages. Use when the answer will be read by or to a child aged 5 to 10. For the parent's own question use paediatric_question_with_sources.

Where a child sits on the growth charts, calculated exactly from the WHO LMS tables (Child Growth Standards 2006, Growth Reference 2007) and, for the United States and Australia after age 2, the CDC 2000 charts: weight, height, weight-for-height and BMI percentiles and z-scores, with the WHO cut-offs (wasting, stunting, overweight, thinness). Severe acute malnutrition is flagged as urgent. With a country, it says which chart that country's health record uses; 78 countries covered. Use when you have a child's sex, age and weight or height and want the percentile. For malnutrition with an arm measurement, or general questions about growth, use paediatric_question_with_sources.

Paracetamol or ibuprofen dose for a child by weight, read from fixed tables: the model is never involved in a number. Takes the brand printed on the bottle (35 brands across 57 countries: Calpol, Tylenol, Crocin, Panadol, Apiretal, Dalsy, Nurofen, Advil and more) or the generic name, and returns the mg range, the millilitres for each strength sold, the interval, the daily maximum and the age warnings. Refuses and refers when the child is too young to be medicated at home. Use when asked how much paracetamol (acetaminophen) or ibuprofen to give a child; needs the weight. For fluids in vomiting or diarrhoea use oral_rehydration_plan; for any other medicine use paediatric_question_with_sources.

The official childhood vaccination schedule of a country, for 92 countries: 8 transcribed by hand from the ministry's own document and 84 read from the WHO's immunization schedule database (all of Africa, the Gulf, Latin America). Returns every age with the vaccines due and what each protects against, the issuing body, the source URL and the review date. With the child's age it also returns what is due now and what comes next. A transcribed table, not a recollection of one. Use when asked which vaccines a child gets, or are due, in a given country. For what a vaccine does or its side effects use paediatric_question_with_sources.

How much oral rehydration solution to offer a child who is vomiting or has diarrhoea: volume per intake, how often, and what to do when the child brings it back up. By age, from the AEMPS leaflet for the solution, the SEUP parent sheet on vomiting and the UK Dioralyte leaflet. These are fluids, not medicine, and the figures come from the leaflets, never from a model. Use when a child is vomiting or has diarrhoea; only the age is needed. If there are signs of dehydration (no urine for hours, very sleepy, sunken eyes, no tears) or blood, check paediatric_warning_sign_check first.

Finds PediBot's published parent guides on a topic, in the requested language, and returns up to five, best match first: title, topic and link. Each guide is written only from published guidelines and names the organisation behind every clinical sentence. When no guide matches, the list is empty. Useful for agents that want to hand a parent something to read rather than a paragraph, in eight languages. Use when the user wants something to read or share on a topic. To answer a specific question use paediatric_question_with_sources.

A parent's paediatric question answered only from published guidelines (WHO, NHS, CDC, SEUP, AEP, MedlinePlus, national health ministries), in English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese or Hindi. A rule-based triage runs before the model and flags emergencies with the country's number; doses come from fixed tables, never from the model; an answer that the sources do not support is refused instead of guessed. Use when a parent asks a free-form question about a baby's or child's health. For a medicine dose use child_medicine_dose; for a vaccination calendar use childhood_vaccination_schedule; to screen symptoms for danger use paediatric_warning_sign_check, which is faster and uses no AI.

Checks a description of a child's symptoms against 97 fixed warning-sign rules, each tied to a published parent sheet, in eight languages and four scripts: breathing difficulty, seizures, meningitis signs, dehydration, poisoning, bites, heatstroke, newborn jaundice. Returns the level (emergency, urgent, mental_health, or routine when no rule fires), the rules that fired with their source, the warning text and the country's emergency number. No model: the same result every time. Use when symptoms are described, first, to know if the child needs emergency care, a visit today or home care. For the full explanation afterwards use paediatric_question_with_sources; for fluids in vomiting or diarrhoea with no danger sign, oral_rehydration_plan.