List of childhood diseases and disorders
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 refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults.
Some childhood diseases include:
Diseases from birth to one-year-old
Gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum
Further information: Neonatal infection
- pertussis
- poliomyelitis
- diphtheria
- measles
- tetanus
- Gonorrhea infection of the newborn
- meconium aspiration syndrome
- Group B streptoccus infection
- prenatal Listeria
- Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
- Cytomegalovirus
- Candida 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
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