A-Z Children's Health

Keeping your baby and toddler safe and healthy is a big part of your parenting job (and not the easiest part, either!). Find out how you can treat those inevitable colds, coughs, bumps, and spills, and learn what you can expect from some of the most common childhood ailments.

Mumps

Mumps Mumps is a common viral infection, often causing no symptoms at all.

Rubella

Rubella
Rubella is usually a mild illness and is often not...

Sticky Eyes

Sticky Eyes
Usually there is no underlying infection, and simp...

Chickenpox

Chicken Pox
Chicken Pox is very common and highly infectious, ...

Meningitis

Meningitis: how to recognise the symptoms
This short video produced by the British Red Cross

Good Advice

Breast is best!
Because it is a food designed specifically for human babies, containing everything they need to grow and flourish.

Diarrhoea

Diarrhoea
Almost all children will get diarrhoea or vomiting at some stage, especially if taken to foreign countries on holiday.