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.

Sore Throat

Sore Throat Pharingitis and tonsillitis - this is very common, especially between the ages of four and seven.

Mumps

Mumps
Mumps is a common viral infection, often causing n...

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 hum...

Coughs

Coughs
Most children will have at least six respiratory

Vomiting

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

Rubella

Rubella
Rubella is usually a mild illness and is often not recognised, the child simply being 'under the weather'.