Treat Faces: Child Affective Facial Expressions as an Indicator for Degree of Illness?

A good anamnesis and child affective facial expressions are important skills that allow pediatricians to share, adopt and interpret emotions and help to judge the degree of illness in the face of a child in an urgent pediatric diagnostic setting. Ekman described the emotional states of a child in 7 different types. This manuscript focuses on analyzing childhood facial expressions of a child in daily pediatric work to assess the degree of illness in a child. To treat faces is of upmost importance in daily pediatric emergency care. The face of the child and their emotions are very important in deciding as a pediatrician if a child is ill or not. Then, further parameters like fever state, paleness, agitation and other signs are important to make any decision towards degree of achild’s illness. Are the child affective facial expressions are an indicator for the degree of illness?