Child health & common illnesses

Contents

Who can help?

• A guide to services
• Know the basics
• Children's medicines
• Useful contacts

The first months

• Feeding your baby
• Crying & colic
• Jaundice
• Being sick & reflux
• Baby blues
• Nappy rash & cradle cap
• Sleeping
• Immunisations
• Sticky eyes & conjunctivitis
• Flat head syndrome
• Teething trouble

Childhood illnesses

• Fever
• Coughs, colds & flu
• Chickenpox & measles
• Meningitis
• Wheezing & breathing difficulties
• Asthma
• Earache & tonsillitis
• Diarrhoea & vomiting
• Hand, foot & mouth
• Rashes & eczema
• Constipation
• Urticaria or hives
• Allergies
• Head lice & threadworms

General welfare

• pregnancy planning & genetics awareness
• Smokefree homes
• Healthy Start vitamins
• Healthy weight & exercise
• Speech, language & communication
• Tics, headbanging & unusual behaviour
• Sun safety
• Household injuries
• Burns & scalds
• Choking & poisoning
• How to resuscitate a child
• School readiness