List of childhood diseases and disorders
Appearance
The term childhood disease is sometimes subjective, and does not refer to an accepted, categorical list. Nearly all the diseases in this list can also be contracted by adults, and, of course, all children can contract diseases not categorized as "childhood diseases."
Some childhood diseases include:[citation needed]
- AIDS[citation needed]
- Anemia[citation needed]
- Asthma[citation needed]
- Autism/Asperger's Syndrome[citation needed]
- Bronchiolitis[citation needed]
- Cancer[citation needed]
- Candidiasis ("Thrush")[citation needed]
- Chagas disease[citation needed]
- Chickenpox[citation needed]
- Croup[citation needed]
- Cystic Fibrosis[citation needed]
- Cytomegalovirus[citation needed] (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- dental caries[citation needed]
- Diabetes[citation needed] (Type 1)
- Diphtheria[citation needed]
- Down's syndrome[citation needed]
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy[citation needed]
- Fifth disease[citation needed]
- Congenital Heart Disease[citation needed]
- Influenza[citation needed]
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis[citation needed]
- Leukemia[citation needed]
- Measles[citation needed]
- Meningitis[citation needed]
- Molluscum contagiosum[citation needed]
- Mumps[citation needed]
- Nephrotic syndrome[citation needed]
- Osgood-Schlatter disease[citation needed]
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
- Pneumonia
- Polio[citation needed]
- Rheumatic fever[citation needed]
- Rickets[citation needed]
- Roseola[citation needed]
- Rubella[citation needed]
- Sever's disease[citation needed]
- Tetanus[citation needed]
- Tuberculosis[citation needed]
- Whooping cough[citation needed]
- Hepatitis A[citation needed]
- Fever[citation needed]
- Scarlet fever (Scarletina)[citation needed]
- ADD[citation needed]
- ADHD[citation needed]
- Mono[citation needed]
- Lyme Disease[citation needed]
- Xerophthalmia[citation needed]
- OCD[citation needed]
- PANDAS[citation needed]
- PANS[citation needed]