CHILDREN'S ILLNESSES and HEALTH PROBLEMS

Medical advice for parents, children and teenagers

I am a school doctor working in an inner city school in Scotland (UK) looking after the children from the start of school in Primary One until they leave Senior School. I am also a mother of school children.

In this site I give medical advice on the children's illnesses and health problems I most commonly deal with. These range from head-lice, bed-wetting, dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD through to puberty, anxiety, anorexia, depression, contraception and drugs.

When I see children / parents, time is often limited and I feel frustrated that I cannot spend longer giving advice.

I hope this website will help remedy that.

'If a child is unwell he may be difficult to educate.

  If a child is difficult to educate he may become unwell'.

  Newsflash

Due to popular demand School Doctor has now opened a private clinic in Edinburgh offering help and advice for people with dyslexia, dyspraxia, and ADHD  ( http://www.schooldoctor.org.uk)

  (note:-   For simplicity I mostly use 'he' to refer to the child throughout this website. If your child is female I do apologise.  Except where specified the advice given is the same.)    

 I apologise that this site has been unavailable - it is now back  - new,  improved  and updated