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.

Good Advice

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

Rubella

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

Sticky Eyes

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

Meningitis

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

Coughs

Coughs
Most children will have at least six respiratory

Ear ache

Ear ache
Ear ache is very common in children, and frequently associated with chest infections, coughs and colds.

Fifth Disease

Fifth Disease
Epidemics often occur in schools, however Children are not particularly unwell.