The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults.
Some childhood diseases include:
Diseases of neonates and children younger than five years
- Candida albicans infection
- Candida parapsilosis infection
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- diphtheria
- human coronavirus infection
- respiratory distress syndrome
- measles
- meconium aspiration syndrome
- metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection
- necrotizing enterocolitis
- neonatal conjunctivitis
- parainfluenza (PIV) infection
- pertussis
- poliomyelitis
- prenatal Listeria
- Group B streptoccus infection
- Tay–Sachs disease
- tetanus
- Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
- respiratory Syncytial Virus infection
- rhinovirus; common cold
Diseases of older children
- Common cold
- AIDS
- Anemia
- Asthma
- Bronchiolitis
- Cancer
- Candidiasis ("Thrush")
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Copenhagen disease
- Croup
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- Dental caries
- Type 1 diabetes
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Fifth disease
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- 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
- Scarlet fever (Scarletina)
- Lyme disease
- Xerophthalmia