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

Delaying and separating vaccines – what’s the point?

10/26/2022

Kawasaki disease

09/05/2022

Diarrhea (acute gastroenteritis) in children

09/01/2022

Who are you Adenovirus?

01/01/2023

RSV in children and infants

12/14/2022

Fever in infants younger than 1 month (4 weeks)

06/15/2022

Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during pregnancy

06/08/2022

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

03/30/2023

How to avoid Toxoplasma infection during pregnancy?

07/18/2022

Herpes infection in children (mainly primary herpetic gingivostomatitis)

07/25/2022

Pneumonia in children

12/14/2022

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

06/10/2022

Is Strep throat infection on the rise?

12/27/2022

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

07/15/2022

Pinworms (enterobiasis) in children

09/09/2022

The vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) – Gardasil 9

01/05/2023

Should we get vaccinate against Influenza and which vaccine to use? Winter 2022-2023 edition

08/23/2022

Breast inflammation due to breastfeeding (mastitis)

10/05/2022

10 rulels for childhood winter illnesess

09/18/2022

Bacterial skin infections

10/19/2022

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

07/05/2022

Pneumonia vaccines for adults (Pneumovax and Prevnar 13)

12/14/2022

PFAPA (Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis) in children and adolescent – recurrent fever with sore throat

07/21/2022

Cryptosporidium

10/13/2022

Animal bites in children – what to do

12/11/2022

Impetigo

08/02/2022

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

08/20/2022

Chickenpox (Varicella)

07/21/2022

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

07/24/2022

Botulism

08/19/2022

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

07/19/2022

Infectious Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) caused by EBV

03/18/2023

Bexsero – the new type-B meningococcal bacteria vaccine

08/20/2022

Recurrent skin infections

06/19/2022

Vaccines against shingles (herpes zoster) in adults (Zostavax and Shingrix)

07/26/2022

Enterovirus – hand, foot and mouth disease

07/27/2022

Rhinosinusitis in children

11/23/2022

Parvovirus Infection in Children (Fifth disease or Erythema Infectiosum)

07/20/2022

Strep’ group A throat – bacterial pharyngitis or tonsillitis

11/23/2022

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

07/29/2022

Salmonella infection in children

09/07/2022

Roseola infantum or Sixth disease

06/15/2021

Everything you need to know about vaccines and pregnancy

07/12/2022