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Blood pressure: Taking your child's blood pressure at home

Your child’s health-care provider may recommend that you check your child’s blood pressure at home. Learn about blood pressure, instructions for taking blood pressure at home and what to do if it is too high or low.

Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Learn about the causes and treatment of hypertension, or high blood pressure.

Heart transplants: Medications

After a heart transplant, your child will need a variety of medications, including immunosuppressants, drugs to prevent infection, and drugs to lower blood pressure.

Pressure ulcers (bedsores)

Learn about pressure ulcers, who is at risk and how to prevent them.

Prednisone: What to eat while you are taking prednisone

Information about what to eat to reduce the chances of side effects while taking prednisone.

Managing and monitoring anti-epileptic drugs

Find out how to help your child manage their AEDs.

Managing your maintenance medications

Positive airway pressure (PAP): CPAP and BPAP

Learn about positive airway pressure (CPAP and BPAP) and how it can be used to help your child while they sleep.

Understanding your child's heart condition diagnosis

Learn about diagnosis of heart conditions in children. Patient histories, physical examinations, and the speed of the diagnosis itself are discussed.

Other diagnostic procedures for brain tumours

An in-depth description of other diagnostic procedures, such as blood tests and x-rays, which are involved in the medical diagnosis of brain cancer.

Burns: Caring for your child's burn at home after discharge from the hospital and between outpatient visits

Learn how to help your child's burn injury heal when your child comes home from the hospital and between visits to the outpatient clinic.

Limb lengthening and reconstruction: Your child's hospital stay

Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.

Kidney disease and diabetes

Kidney disease may occur later in life as a result of diabetes. Learn about diabetic nephropathy, diagnosis and treatment.

Bleeding: First aid

Learn how to recognize life-threatening bleeding, prevent shock and stop severe bleeds.

Blood tests and cancer diagnosis

Blood tests can help your health-care team diagnose cancer and see how your treatment is working. Discover how blood tests are done, the types of blood tests and why they are done.

Giving parenteral nutrition (PN) at home

Learn about the mixture of nutrients in parenteral nutrition (PN) and how to provide your child PN at home.

Routine self-monitoring after a kidney transplant

Vascular access for hemodialysis: Caring for your child after the procedure

The following information will help you to properly care for your child after vascular access surgery.

What to expect right after liver transplant surgery

Communicating with your healthcare team after a kidney transplant

Tinzaparin: Injecting at home

A guide on how to give your child tinzaparin injections.

Cyclosporine

Enoxaparin: Injecting at home

A guide on how to give your child enoxaparin injections.

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli hemolytic uremic syndrome (STEC HUS)

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli hemolytic uremic syndrome (STEC HUS) is a disease that mainly affects the kidneys and blood cells. Learn about what STEC HUS is, how it affects your child and what to expect during treatment.

Blood and marrow transplant tests

Learn about the medical tests your child takes after a blood and marrow transplant.