What's causing the rash on my child's face? Fifth disease is also known as “slapped cheek” because it’s marked by a distinctive rash that causes red, splotchy cheeks.

San Antonio-area doctors are warning families to be alert as the Center for Disease Control tracks a spike in measles cases.

Soon the sidewalks and crosswalks will be full of students eager to get home, but those walks home can feel longer in the extreme temperatures. A local pediatrician shares how students can stay cool.

Why are so many children sick right now? Dr. Mandie Tibball Svatek, University Health pediatric hospitalist and UT Health SA associate professor answers some of parents' most asked questions.

San Antonio Metro Health announced Tuesday it will offer the COVID-19 vaccine to children, ages 6 months older.

The FDA advisers give the green light to Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines for kids under the age of five. According to the White House, shots could be ready as soon as next week.

Child advocates say parents should start candid conversations with children at an early age to help teach them about appropriate boundaries and protect them from danger.

Local pediatrician says the issues with heart inflammation are also a side effect of COVID-19 in some patients.

SAN ANTONIO Dr. Leah Jacobson, a San Antonio pediatrician, said the parents shes spoken with are 50-50 about eventually sending their children back to school. As the chair of the Pediatric School Reopening Committee of the Bexar County Medical Society COVID-19 Task Force, Jacobson said theyre having to weigh education versus health. The latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on what the agency said is the best available data. New school safety tool to be added to San Antonios COVID-19 dashboard for parentsSvatek said theyre developing metrics to help school districts decide how to proceed. And how many cases would it take for a classroom to close off for 14 days or even a school to be closed or even the school district? Svatek said.

SAN ANTONIO – If there is one thing you can do to prevent complications from COVID-19, it would be to stay away from smoking, doctors say. There is research currently underway to find out whether smokers with asymptomatic COVID-19 are secret super-spreaders of the virus. “We’re finding in multi-family housing units that seven in 10 African-American children are exposed to secondhand smoke, as well as a prominent nearly a quarter of Latino community are exposed to that secondhand smoke,” Svatek said. There is more inequity hidden in such living conditions Svatek said, with an estimated 15,269 housing units in San Antonio considered to be overcrowded. And it is not just in housing units that the high density and smoking are showing a spike in cases.