This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed 250,000 times on an average weekday. The Kids area features thousands of topics in sections like Staying Healthy, Growing Up, Everyday Illnesses & Injuries, and Dealing with Feelings. There are games, interactive features, and a glossary of medical terms. Teen topics include School & Jobs, Staying Safe, and Food & Fitness. This is a great place for doctor-approved health information. Available in English and Spanish.

This site answers any questions you might have about Ascariasis. This site has four pages of information written for parents.

This resource on binge eating disorder answers questions concerning the risks, problems, signs, and symptoms associated with this eating disorder.

Determine your body mass index using this online calculator. This handy tool will even plot your BMI data on a graph.

A brief description of the common cold, including signs, symptoms, prevention ideas, and treatments.

An easy to understand but complete look at the causes and symptoms of encephalitis, especially in children. Site also contains links to related illnesses in children.

This article is helpful in giving facts about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), including signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention. Also available in Spanish by clicking tab "Lea este articulo en Espanol".

Site provides an excellent description of botulism and how it affects infants, including information about symptoms, prevention and treatment.

Does you or someone you know have lupus? How does it affect people's lives? What causes it? How do doctors treat it? Find out on this webpage. Be sure to click through the whole article, and check out the tabs on the side for additional resources.

Parents "of the grandest sort" are sometimes people we only get to see on holidays. Maybe you spend each afternoon after school with your grandparent. Kids have all kinds of different relationships with their grandparents. Sometimes kids might move in with a grandparent, sometimes a grandparent might move in with your family. Here are some things to expect and some ways to help have fun with your grandparent once you're living together.

This article on Lyme disease is organized into the following sections: "Lyme Disease," "Contagiousness, Diagnosis, and Treatment," and "Duration, Prevention, and When to Call Your Child's Doctor."

This article on children and whooping cough is organized into the following sections: "Pertussis (Whooping Cough)," "Prevention, When to Call Your Child's Doctor, and Professional Treatment," and "Home Treatment." Learn what makes the whooping cough different than the common cold or flu, and learn how to take care of children sick with this bacterial infection.

Site provides a general description of Salmonellosis, the foodborne illness caused by salmonella. Focuses on kids and kids' health and gives excellent information about the virus.

The article explains what is currently known about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and suggest a number of ways to reduce the risk to babies.

The web-article provides a detailed overview of tetanus. Content focuses on the duration, contagiousness, infection incubation, as well as prevention and treatment.

This website informs parents about the complications and risks associated with vomiting and the diseases that cause vomiting. Here, you can learn how to prevent dehydration in sick children and how to relieve other problems associated with stomach illnesses and vomiting.

Lets you know when you should be concerned and call a doctor for help.