Children's Health Features
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Ozone, and Children's Eyes
Avoiding irritating fumes that can make eyes red and watery.
- Keeping Your House Clean Without Harsh Chemicals
Tips on keeping your house germ-free.
- What's In Your Personal Care Products?
Many personal care products contain controversial chemicals. What do experts say about making healthy choices?
- Taking Care of Baby's Sensitive Skin
Worried about chemicals like phthalates and parabens in your baby shampoos, soaps, and lotions? See what the experts say.
- Whooping Cough: What You Need to Know
WebMD asks CDC expert Tom Clark about whooping cough and its causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
- Obesity and Early Puberty: What's the Risk?
Can obesity in children as young as 2 or 3 raise the risk of early puberty? See what the experts think.
- Want to Help Feed America's Hungry Children?
Want to help feed America's hungry children? Here's how to donate time, money, and food to make sure kids get the nourishment they need.
- Scarlett Johansson Feeds Hungry Children
2009 WebMD Health Hero Scarlett Johansson is on a mission to feed hungry kids for a very personal reason. She used to be one of them.
- The Truth About Stomach Flu
Stomach flu isn’t really a ‘flu.’ It’s gastroenteritis and can be caused by bacteria, a virus, or a parasite. Learn more about what to expect when your child or todler has the stomach flu.
- Is It Really Food Poisoning?
Your upset stomach could be caused by a food intolerance or irritation -- your GI tract and creme brulee simply don't get along.
- Children and Heart Disease: What's Wrong With This Picture?
As more children become obese, pediatric heart disease is becoming more common.
- Summer Safety: Protecting Your Family from Environmental Health Risks
WebMD provides information about common toxins in swimming pools and at the beach and how you can avoid them.
- The Dangers of Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
A guide to whooping cough, or pertussis: its symptoms, danger signs, prevention, and treatment.
- Swine Flu Prevention: Tips for Parents
WebMD talks to pediatricians for answers to common questions parents have about the H1N1 swine flu.
- Actor Anthony Edwards Builds a Hospital
Actor Anthony Edwards is helping to build a children’s hospital in Kenya.
- How Are the Quaid Twins Doing?
With more recent horrifying headlines about heparin drug errors harming children—and even, tragically taking the lives of two babies at a Texas hospital—WebMD recently sat down with Dennis and Kimberly Quaid.
- What to Do When Your Child Has Lice
Expert tips on getting rid of head lice.
- U.S. Children's Medical Needs, by the Numbers
The Jeff Gordon Foundation focuses on children’s health at a crucial time.
- Bedwetting Solutions: How Can You Stop Bedwetting?
Tips to help your bedwetting child stay dry.
- Bedwetting: Answers to Parents’ 6 Top Questions
WebMD's pediatric expert answers the 6 most common questions he hears about bedwetting.
- Bedwetting: What Causes It?
It's a myth that laziness causes bed-wetting. Millions of kids wet the bed -- but why? And how can you help?
- Top Children's Health and Parenting Stories of 2007: Readers' Choice
A list of the 10 most viewed children's health and parenting stories on WebMD in 2007.
- Marlo Thomas: Championing Kids' Care
The award-winning actor tells WebMD why she and her family are so passionate about raising money for kids' medical care.
- Dental Health Care: Tots, Tweens, and Teens
Your children's dental health needs change as they grow. Keep their smiles bright with these top tooth tips.
- Backyard and Playground Safety
Learn how to keep your children’s outdoor fun safe. Use these guidelines to reduce backyard, playground, and pool hazards.
- 10 Surefire Solutions to End the Bedtime Battle
Experts share tips for establishing a bedtime routine for your children that will allow them to go to sleep easily.
- Boosting 4 Vital Nutrients Kids Need
Tips to help your kids get enough of 5 essential nutrients they need -- and are often missing.
- The MP3 Generation: At Risk for Hearing Loss?
Experts discuss the possible risk to hearing from listening to MP3s for long periods of time.
- Home Remedies for Children's Colds and Flu
When colds, cough, fever, or flu strike your child, soothe symptoms with these simple home treatments.
- Back-to-School Health Checkup
Here's a primer on exactly what your child needs to have a safe and healthy school year.
- Raising Heart-Smart Kids
It's never too early to start good family habits -- at the dining table and in the gym.
- Does Your Child Have Hearing Loss?
Some 12,000 American children are born each year with impaired hearing.
- Swimming Pool Safety
The Most Delicate Rule of Water Quality: Keep the Poop Out of the Pool
- When the Diagnosis is Serious
A serious diagnosis, hard enough to cope with in itself, presents another challenge for families -- how to tell the children.
- Toxic Turf
Schools are spraying herbicides and pesticides on their grounds to control pests from yellow jackets to ants. But who's paying attention to the harmful effects these chemicals have on the nation's schoolchildren?
- Contagious Daycare?
More parents are leaving their children in day care than ever before: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 65% of women with children under the age of six were part of the labor force in 1998, compared with only 44% in 1975.
- Children and Illness
As a parent, it helps to know what your child is thinking and feeling when he or she becomes ill so that you can help teach him or her about being sick... and, of course, about staying well.