Hepatitis A symptoms include fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and jaundice. See your doctor if your child has symptoms of hepatitis A. Immunization and good hygiene are the best ways to prevent Hepatitis A.

It’s very common for children to get head lice, especially once they go to child care, preschool and school. You can usually treat head lice at home. Head lice are often called nits.

Scabies is a very itchy skin rash caused by small burrowing mites. It looks like red tracks and spots on the skin. Scabies spreads very easily and should be treated carefully.

It’s common for children aged 5-10 years to get worms (threadworms). Worm infections mostly don’t cause symptoms. Sometimes children get red and itchy bottoms. It is a good idea to treat everyone in the family with worming tablets. Prevent worm infections with good personal hygiene and household cleaning.

Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) covers both sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and fatal sleeping accidents. Babies are particularly at risk of SUDI when three kinds of risk factors happen at once. These are vulnerability, age and environment. Many SUDI risks you can avoid. These include risks associated with babies’ sleep environments.

A heart murmur is an extra noise in the heart. Several things can cause a heart murmur in children and teenagers. A heart murmur doesn’t always mean that your child has a heart problem or heart disease.

When a child has recurrent seizures or fits, the condition is called epilepsy. If your child is diagnosed with epilepsy, treatment might involve anticonvulsant medication. Epilepsy treatment aims to let children live a normal life.

Children often get headaches, and some get headaches that keep coming back. You usually don’t need to worry about headaches. But see your doctot if you’re concerned, especially if your child develops a sudden, severe headache that hurts most when she wakes up, or that wakes her up.

During a febrile convulsion, a child’s body will stiffen and jerk around. He’ll lose consciousness, and his eyes might roll backward. Symptoms don’t last long. If your child is having a convulsion, remove harmful objects nearby. If possible, video and time the convulsion. Call an ambulance if the convulsion lasts longer than five minutes or your child isn’t breathing. Start CPR if your child isn’t breathing. See your doctor or go to a hospital emergency department if it’s your child’s first convulsion or you’re worried about your child’s symptoms.

We don’t know what causes growing pains – but they’re not caused by growing. Growing pains will usually go away with time. Massages, heat packs or stretches before bed might help. You should take your child to thre doctor if the pain does not go away quickly to make sure that there is no serious illness causing the pain.