List of childhood diseases and disorders
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the legal age of majority. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults.
Some childhood diseases include:
Diseases of neonates and children younger than five years
- Candida albicans infection
- Candida parapsilosis infection
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- Diphtheria
- Human coronavirus infection
- respiratory distress syndrome
- Measles
- Meconium aspiration syndrome
- Metapneumovirus infection
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Neonatal conjunctivitis
- Parainfluenza infection
- Pertussis
- Poliomyelitis
- prenatal Listeria
- Group B streptoccus infection
- Tay–Sachs disease
- Tetanus
- Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
- Respiratory syncytial virus infection
- Rhinovirus; common cold
Diseases of older children
- Common cold
- AIDS
- Anemia
- Asthma
- Bronchiolitis
- Cancer
- Candidiasis
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Copenhagen disease
- Croup
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus
- Dental caries
- Type 1 diabetes
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Fifth disease
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza
- Intussusception
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Leukemia
- Measles
- Meningitis
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Mumps
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Pneumonia
- Polio
- Rheumatic fever
- Rickets
- Roseola
- Rubella
- Sever's disease
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Volvulus
- Whooping cough
- Hepatitis A
- Scarlet fever
- Lyme disease
- Xerophthalmia