List of childhood diseases and disorders

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Disability-adjusted life year for childhood-cluster diseases per 100,000 inhabitants. These include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles, and tetanus.

  no data

  ≤ 25

  25-50

  50-100

  100-200

  200-300

  300-400

  400-500

  500-750

  750-1000

  1000-2000

  2000-3000

  ≥ 3000

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:

Diseases from birth to one-year-old

Further information: Neonatal infection

• meconium aspiration syndrome
• Group B streptoccus infection
• prenatal Listeria
• Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
• Cytomegalovirus
• Candidia albicans infection
• Candida parapsilosis infection
• respiratory Syncytial Virus infection
• metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection
• rhinovirus; common cold
• parainfluenza (PIV) infection
• human coronavirus infection
• respiratory distress syndrome

Diseases of older children:

• AIDS
• Anemia
• Asthma
• Bronchiolitis
• Cancer
• Candidiasis ("Thrush")
• Chagas disease
• Chickenpox
• Croup
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
• dental caries
• Diabetes (Type 1)
• Diphtheria
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Fifth disease
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Influenza
• Intussusception (medical disorder)
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Leukemia
• Measles
• Meningitis
• Molluscum contagiosum
• Mumps
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Osgood-Schlatter disease
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
• Pneumonia
• Polio
• Rheumatic fever
• Rickets
• Roseola
• Rubella
• Sever's disease
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Volvulus
• Whooping cough
• Hepatitis A
• Fever
• Scarlet fever (Scarletina)
• Mono
• Lyme Disease
• Xerophthalmia
• PANDAS
• PANS