Common Childhood Illnesses Essay

The signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses.

Kids from the age of 0-5 years are prone to contact infectious disease and common illness from the environment that they have been placed in. As the children have a low resistance to infections, they can transfer these infections to other kids when they come in contact while playing and learning with each other in the nursery. Some kids might show a few signs of a common illness, but it might be a chronic illness.

There are times when a child is suffering from a non-infection illness. We as the primary caregivers need to look for signs and symptoms of such infectious and non-infectious illness among the kids and identify them correctly. If any contagious infection is found, the parents will be informed and will be requested to keep them at home so that the others are not infected. And even if it is a non-infectious illness, the parents need

They need the diaper to relive themselves and we as care givers need to be attentive to their need of when they need a change. The diaper rash is usually caused when there is a delay in changing the dirty nappy or when they are not washed properly between the changes. They need to be washed and wiped so that all the urine and fecal matter is out of their private parts. It is very important to remember that they are cleaned from top to bottom (especially in girls) as it might cause an infection in their penis or vagina. The diaper rash can also be caused mainly if the child is left in a wet diaper for long hours, if they have been introduced to new food, bacterial or vaginal infection, chaffing of the diaper area or the ones on anti-biotics. They show signs of blisters, pus filled pimples, oozy yellow patches, open sores, and red inflamed skin. When the child shows signs of diaper rash they might find it difficult to pee or poop as it might irritate them resulting in them crying in