Infectious diseases

Infectious diseases add significant volume in pediatrics. Bacteria, viruses and other pathogens are primarily responsible many diseases.
Thus, the purpose of this section in the site is to shed light and help parents with useful information on these common topics.
Also, soon in this area are two non-infectious subjects but from the field of rheumatology. Two inflammatory diseases – Kawasaki disease probably caused by an infectious trigger and PFAPA syndrome that mimics bacterial tonsillitis.

Hope you find this important chapter useful as well as interesting.

Infectious pediatric diseases

Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during pregnancy

Cryptosporidium

Fever after vaccines given at the age of 1 year (and generally after all vaccines) – what not to miss

Enterovirus – hand, foot and mouth disease

Can antibiotics be stopped halfway through a course?

Herpes infection in children (mainly primary herpetic gingivostomatitis)

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

Roseola infantum or Sixth disease

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

Strep throat or tonsillitis

West Nile Fever

Everything you need to know about vaccines and pregnancy

Who are you Adenovirus?

A new respiratory virus – Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV)

What is Monkeypox and what’s its connection to Smallpox?

Bacterial skin infections

The RSV Vaccine for adults – Arexvy

Pinworms (enterobiasis) in children

Rhinosinusitis in children

Shingles vaccination in adults (Shingrix and Zostavax)

How do you determine the correct dose of Amoxicillin for a child or adult?

Kawasaki disease

Report of local side effects following meningococcal B vaccine (Bexsero)

Pneumonia vaccines for adults (Pneumovax and Prevnar 13)

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

Necrotizing tonsillitis

Animal bites in children – what to do

Going back to school or daycare after an illness – when should my child attend daycare or school after an illness?

Parvovirus Infection in Children (Fifth disease or Erythema Infectiosum)

How to avoid Toxoplasma infection during pregnancy?

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

Pneumonia in children

Everything you wanted to know about Rotavirus and its vaccine

Everything you need to know about shingles (varicella zoster) in children and adults

Salmonella infection in children

Bexsero – the new type-B meningococcal bacteria vaccine

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know (and dared to ask) about the tetanus vaccine (in children and adults)

Beyfortus (Nirsevimab) – a new vaccine for RSV for infants

Is Strep throat infection on the rise?

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

Swelling in the arm following the flu shot – a localized reaction

Breast inflammation due to breastfeeding (mastitis)

Delaying and separating vaccines – what’s the point?

Fever in infants younger than 1 month (4 weeks)

The baby with the stuffy nose

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Should I get the flu vaccine? And if so, which one? The Influenza vaccine, winter 2024-2025 edition

Botulism

PFAPA Syndrome in children and adults – recurrent episodes of throat inflammation

Infectious Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) caused by EBV

10 rules for childhood winter illnesess

Parapertussis – a relative of pertussis?

Perianal dermatitis in children

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

RSV in children and infants

Naegleria Fowleri the brain-eating Amoeba or primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)

Everything you need to know about the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumonia in children and adults

Diarrhea (acute gastroenteritis) in children

Strep throat type C or G

The vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) – Gardasil 9

Pertussis – everything you need to know about whooping cough

Do antibiotics cause weakness?

Everything you need to know about the flu (influenza) – a very important read for the entire family

Recurrent skin infections

Everything you need to know about Dengue Fever in children and adults

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Impetigo