Conditions and symptoms

Advice on common health conditions in babies and children and how to treat them.

A

  1. Asthma in babies and children

B

  1. Blocked (plugged) duct while breastfeeding
  2. Bow legs and knock knees in children
  3. Bronchiolitis

C

  1. Chickenpox
  2. Chickenpox in babies and children
  3. Chickenpox vaccine
  4. Classical Galactosaemia (C Gal)
  5. Cold sores (babies and children)
  6. Colds, coughs and viral infections in children
  7. Colic in babies
  8. Conjunctivitis
  9. Constipation in children
  10. Cot death
  11. Croup in babies and children

D

  1. Dehydration in babies and children
  2. Diarrhoea in babies and children

E

  1. Earache
  2. Eczema in babies and children

F

  1. Febrile convulsion - seizures in children

H

  1. Hand, foot and mouth disease
  2. Head lice and nits
  3. Herpes in newborn babies (neonatal herpes)
  4. High temperature - fever in children
  5. Homocystinuria

J

  1. Jaundice in newborn babies
  2. Joint hypermobility in children

M

  1. Mastitis while breastfeeding
  2. Measles
  3. Meningitis and septicaemia in children and babies
  4. Mouth ulcers

N

  1. Nappy rash

O

  1. Oral thrush (candida) in babies and toddlers
  2. Oral thrush (mouth thrush)

P

  1. Phenylketonuria (PKU)
  2. Plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) in babies
  3. Pneumonia in babies and children
  4. Positional talipes (TEV) in newborn babies

R

  1. Rash
  2. Reflux in babies

S

  1. Slapped cheek syndrome
  2. Sticky eyes in babies and toddlers
  3. Symptoms

T

  1. Tongue-tie and breastfeeding
  2. Tooth decay in children
  3. Treatment

V

  1. Vaccine
  2. Vomiting in babies and children

W

  1. Warts and verrucas
  2. Whooping cough in babies and children