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.

Diarrhoea

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

Vomiting

Vomiting
Almost all children will get diarrhoea or vomiting...

Good Advice

Breast is best!
Because it is a food designed specifically for hum...

Fever

Fever
Usually this is caused by common viruses such as '...

Meningitis

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

Chickenpox

Chicken Pox
Chicken Pox is very common and highly infectious, but usually a mild illness in children.

Ear ache

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