Treatment to suppress the immune system affects how your child’s body responds to routine immunizations. This guide discusses how to keep your child healthy while taking immune-suppressing treatment.
Vaccines help to protect your child against many different diseases. Learn about the different vaccines and the conditions they help to prevent.
Read about types of immunizations that are recommended during a child's first year of life and onward.
Read about the routine health care your baby should receive and the importance of well-baby visits and immunizations.
Vaccines help to protect you against many different diseases. Learn about different vaccines and how to keep track of which vaccines you have had.
Neuroinflammatory disorders are conditions where parts of the central nervous system are affected by inflammation. Learn about inflammation, the different types of neuroinflammatory disorders, how they are treated and how to cope with illness.
Even before your child starts school, they may already be in an organized daycare setting. Discover how to handle common pre-school toilet training, discipline and health issues and continue supporting your child’s development.
Your child needs to take the medicine called palivizumab. This information sheet explains what palivizumab does, how to give it, and what side effects, or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Learn how to safeguard children with leukemia against infection and other precautions they should be taking during treatment.
Read about the standard vaccination schedule and how your child can catch up on their vaccinations if they have not been fully immunized.
Read about a baby's primary health-care team: the family physician or paediatrician, and other health-care providers such as the dentist and audiologist.
Starting school is a landmark in a young child's life. Learn about the typical physical, emotional and communication milestones for school-age children and how to handle issues such as bullying, bladder control and sleep problems.
ACTH deficiency is a type of hypopituitarism hormone deficiency in which not enough cortisol is produced by the adrenal glands. Learn about how it is diagnosed and managed in children.
If your child has a low immune system learn how to protect them against infection.
This page explains the diagnosis and treatment of primary immune deficiency (PID), a genetic condition that weakens the immune system.
Learn about infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. Learn how infantile spasms are diagnosed and treated, and who can help you and your baby.
Teens living with hemophilia learn the importance of eating well, good dental care and having all their vaccine shots up-to-date.
Your child needs to take the medicine called vinblastine. This information sheet explains what vinblastine does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Learn about the importance of routine health care. Also find information about the importance of sleep and physical activity and how much your child should be getting.