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

Bexsero – the new type-B meningococcal bacteria vaccine

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

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

Pneumonia vaccines for adults (Pneumovax and Prevnar 13)

Do antibiotics cause weakness?

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

Infectious Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) caused by EBV

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Everything you wanted to know about Rotavirus and its vaccine

Breast inflammation due to breastfeeding (mastitis)

Is Strep throat infection on the rise?

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Cryptosporidium

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

Shingles vaccination in adults (Shingrix and Zostavax)

Delaying and separating vaccines – what’s the point?

Kawasaki disease

Chickenpox (Varicella)

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

Salmonella infection in children

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

Pneumonia in children

Parapertussis – a relative of pertussis?

The baby with the stuffy nose

How to avoid Toxoplasma infection during pregnancy?

Roseola infantum or Sixth disease

Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during pregnancy

Herpes infection in children (mainly primary herpetic gingivostomatitis)

Strep throat or tonsillitis

RSV in children and infants

The vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) – Gardasil 9

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

Parvovirus Infection in Children (Fifth disease or Erythema Infectiosum)

Recurrent skin infections

Botulism

Pertussis – everything you need to know about whooping cough

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

Fever in infants younger than 1 month (4 weeks)

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

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

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

Necrotizing tonsillitis

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

Perianal dermatitis in children

Diarrhea (acute gastroenteritis) in children

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

10 rules for childhood winter illnesess

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

Who are you Adenovirus?

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?

The RSV Vaccine for adults – Arexvy

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

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

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

Can antibiotics be stopped halfway through a course?

Everything you need to know about vaccines and pregnancy

Rhinosinusitis in children

Bacterial skin infections

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

West Nile Fever

A new respiratory virus – Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV)

Pinworms (enterobiasis) in children

Strep throat type C or G

Impetigo

Enterovirus – hand, foot and mouth disease