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
• Being sick & reflux
• Crying & colic
• Jaundice
• Flat head syndrome
• Nappy rash & cradle cap
• Sleeping
• Sticky eyes & eye care
• Baby blues
• Bonding and attachment
• FGM

Childhood illnesses

• Fever
• Coughs, colds & flu
• Allergies
• Wheezing & breathing difficulties
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea & vomiting
• Earache & tonsillitis

More serious illnesses

• Meningitis & sepsis
• Chickenpox & measles
• Asthma

General welfare

• Immunisations
• A healthy lifestyle
• Household accidents
• School readiness