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.

Chickenpox

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

Tummy Troubles

Tummy Troubles
Tummy troubles - dealing with and avoiding them

Measles

Measles
Measles is very infectious....

Meningitis

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

Vomiting

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

Mumps

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