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Children’s health describes the wellbeing, growth and development of children from the time before they're born through to their teenage years.

What is the best home remedy for head lice?
Where do head lice come from?
Hip pain in children
Neonatal herpes (herpes in a baby)
Healthy-weight children: advice for parents
Scarlet fever
Children's teeth
Fever in children
Nephrotic syndrome in children
Croup
Measles
Colic
What happens to teen smokers?
Limping in children
Head lice and nits
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Kwashiorkor
Get healthy as a family
Skin rashes in babies
Reye's syndrome
Eye tests for children
Urinary tract infections in children
Encopresis (soiling of clothes in children)
Kawasaki disease
Slapped cheek syndrome
Skin rashes in children
Growing pains (recurrent limb pain in children)
Hearing tests for children
Rubella
Physical activity guidelines for children (under five years)
Mumps
Club foot
What can I do if my child is very overweight?
Sickness in children and babies
What can I do if my child is overweight?
Cradle cap
Early Or Delayed Puberty
Developmental co-ordination disorder (dyspraxia) in children
Phimosis and paraphimosis (tight foreskin)
Reflux in babies
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
How to involve your child in being healthy
Molluscum contagiosum
Boost your child's bone health
Plagiocephaly and brachycephaly (flat head syndrome)
Tongue-tie
Oral thrush in babies
Hypotonia
Labial fusion
Jaundice in newborns
Hand, foot and mouth disease
Threadworms

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