Au pairs are not doctors. Your host parents will not expect you to diagnose a disease or to identify a condition. But you will be expected to communicate with your host parents about the health and well-being of their children.
In this section we will introduce a few common illnesses that children experience in the USA. We want to help you get to know some of the terminology and also show the most common ways a child gets sick. If you would like to learn more about each illness, feel free to use the links provided.
icon-14Many of the illnesses we mention here are contagious. Anytime you see this little germ icon, that’s how to know that the illness is contagious.