The Importance of Washing Your Hands

If someone asked you what your first defense against getting sick and spreading illness was, what would you say?

Soft Drinks and Kids

How many teaspoons of sugar do you think a soft drink has? A 12-ounce serving of soda contains 150 calories and almost 10 teaspoons of sugar.

Bicycle Safety

Children should always wear helmets to protect their heads from injury while riding a bicycle. But there are other important safety rules that your child should follow.

Dealing with Picky Eaters

Almost every child goes through a phase where he or she is picky about food.

Teaching Your Child About 9-1-1

Besides your own, what’s the most important number a child should know? Teaching your child how and when to call 9-1-1 can be one of the easiest and most important lessons that he or she will ever learn.

Sick School Syndrome

The average school-age child gets 6 to 9 colds per year and many parents send their sick children to school. This can cause what is known as sick school syndrome.

Dealing with Childhood Asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic illness that sends kids to the ER.

Playground Safety

Did you know that over 200,000 kids are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for playground-related injuries?

The Advantages of Breastfeeding Your Baby

Whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed your baby is a personal choice, but breast milk has its advantages over formula – it’s more convenient, it’s easier to digest, it passes antibodies from mother to child, and it’s free.

Bedwetting

Bedwetting is a very common problem for children.

Build Your Own First Aid Kit

Items everyone should keep in case of emergency.

Growing Pains

Many children suffer from growing pains before they reach their teens.

Swimming Safety

Drowning is the second most common cause of death in children under 14 years of age.

Internet Safety

Basic guildelines for children that use the internet.

Sibiling Rivalry

Children can learn how to deal with conflict through interactions with their brothers and sisters.

Fire Safety

Prepare your family for what to do in case there is a fire in your home

Colic

How do you tell if your baby has colic?

Preventing Poisoning

Poison-proof your home to keep your children safe.

PICA

When children eat things that aren't food.

Eye Injuries

Every year almost 30,000 children under the age of five injure their eyes.

Childhood Cancer

Early detection of cancer in children greatly improves their survival rate.

Warts

Almost fifty percent of children get a wart at some point.

Impetigo

Impetigo is common among school-age children.

Read to your child

Reading to your baby can increase the chance that he or she will be successful in school.

Diabetes

How diabetes affects children

Rotavirus

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe in children in the U.S.

Kids and Secondhand Smoke Exposure

Smoking is harmful even to people that don't smoke.

Bird Flu and You

Avain flu is much different from what people think of when they hear the word "flu."

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

Nearly 50,000 children in the U.S. suffer from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Bronchiolitis

Bronchiolitis occurs when the tiny airways that lead to the lungs become inflammed.

Strangulation

Many common household items pose serious strangulation or entrapment risks for young children.

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Leukemia and lymphoma are two common types of childhood cancer.

Cough syrup abuse

Abuse of over-the-counter cough medication by teens.

CDF Facts About U.S. Children

Information and statistics about children in the U.S.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Potential risk factors and prevention tips to reduce the risk of SIDS

Lead Poisoning

Twenty-five percent of kids in the U.S. are exposed to lead on a daily basis.

Calcium

Why do we need calcium?

Anemia

What's anemia?

Reye's Syndrome

What is Reye's Syndrome?

Medicine

Giving over-the-counter medications to your child

Television

Children often spend too much time watching television

High Cholesterol

Children can have high cholesterol levels too.

Gun Safety

Over 93,000 children died as a result of gunshot wounds between 1979 and 2001.

Zoonoses

Zoonoses are illnesses that you can catch from animals.

Teething

There are many old-wives tales associated with teething.

Earwax

Why we have earwax.

Heat Stroke

Protect your child against heat stroke.

Swimmer's Ear

What is swimmer's ear?

Home Alone

Prepare your child if he or she has to stay home alone.

Fever

What to do if your child gets a fever.

Vaccinations

Why you should get your child vaccinated.

Insect Bites

All about bug bites

Sleep

Most families in the U.S. aren't getting as much sleep as they need.

Tonsilitis

What exactly is tonisilitis?

Influenza

Get ready for flu season

Measles

Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by a virus.

Finding a family doctor

Tips on finding a family doctor

School lunches

Tips on teaching your child to make healthy eating choices at school.

Poison Ivy

What to do if you or your child come in contact with poison ivy.

West Nile Virus

Information about West Nile Virus

Stitches

All about stitches

Electrical shock

Electrical shocks cause about 1000 deaths in the U.S. each year

Tooth injuries

Children can injure their teeth from many every day activities.

Sprains and Strains

The difference between sprains and strains.

Headaches

Many children get headaches

Reactions to medications

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is an extremely rare allergic reaction to medications.

Appendicitis

All about appendicitis

Bleeding

How to stop bleeding

Post-partum Depression

Post-partum depression affects one in ten women.

Febrile Seizures

Febrile seizures are common and harmless reactions to fever in children.

Anaphylaxis

Severe and sudden allergic reactions to food.

Burns

Every year, almost 40,000 children are hospitalized due to burns.

Obesity

One in five children in the U.S. are considered overweight.

Sports-related Injuries

Almost 775,000 children are treated in ERs for sports-related injuries each year.

Shopping Cart Safety

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than 24,000 children in the U.S. are treated in ERs for shopping cart-related injuries.

Allergies

All about allergies.

CPR

Information on cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Coughing

Coughing is the body's way of clearing air passages.

Head Injuries

Head injuries are one of the most common types of accidental injuries in children.

Strep throat

All about strep.

Vomiting

All about vomiting.

Head Lice

All about lice.

Good Communication

Building a communicative relationship with your child is important.

Hot Cars

Don't leave your child in a hot car.

Lawnmower Safety

Ten thousand children per year are treated for lawnmower-reltated injuries.

Fifth Disease

Fifth Disease is a rash-related viral infection and a common childhood disease.

Sleep Apnea

Information about sleep apnea

Diaper Rash

All about diaper rash

Mono

Mono is a common viral infection.

Rabies

Signs and symptoms of rabies

Preventing Abductions

Tips on preventing abductions

Scoliosis

Information about scoliosis

Nosebleeds

Nosebleeds are fairly common in children.

E. coli

Symptoms and ways to prevent E. coli