"Act Your Age" is the nineteenth episode of the third season of House and the sixty-fifth episode overall.
The episode opens with a young boy who is suffering from a severe nose-bleed,the family situation is quickly revealed. While his father and teacher discuss his aggressive behavior, his six-year-old sister, Lucy suffers a heart attack. Over the course of the episode she develops more symptoms that are usually only exhibited by elderly people....
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"Act Your Age" is the nineteenth episode of the third season of House and the sixty-fifth episode overall.
The episode opens with a young boy who is suffering from a severe nose-bleed,the family situation is quickly revealed. While his father and teacher discuss his aggressive behavior, his six-year-old sister, Lucy suffers a heart attack. Over the course of the episode she develops more symptoms that are usually only exhibited by elderly people. Exploring the patient's house, they find a bloody T-shirt stuffed into a heating vent. Suspecting child abuse at first, the team runs tests and finds that the girl has been menstruating at the age of six. Shallow cuts around the genital area found in a previous exam were attributed to her trying to remove pubic hair with her father's razor.
House and his team are baffled, but the breakthrough comes when Jasper, who is eight, goes into a rage when Chase acts affectionately towards Cameron on whom the boy had a crush. It turns out that both...
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