Dehydration occurs when the body does not have enough water to function properly. Learn how illness can cause dehydration and how it is treated.
Learn how to prevent, recognize and treat dehydration and other heat-related illnesses in children.
Find out how oral rehydration therapy can treat dehydration caused by viral gastroenteritis.
Read about the reasons you might need a kidney transplant and how a kidney transplant can affect your future.
Whether you've been following a strict gluten-free diet for a long time or the diet is still new to you, accidental gluten exposures sometimes happen! Find tips to help you prepare for gluten exposure and how to manage the symptoms that may come with it.
Your child needs to take the medicine called potassium. This information sheet explains what potassium does, how to give it, and what side effects, or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Diarrhea during cancer treatment may be caused by many things. Find out what can cause diarrhea and ways you can manage it.
Stomach flu is an infection that causes inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Learn the symptoms and treatment of stomach flu.
Learn the effects that alcohol and cannabis can have on your body and what you need to know about using these substances when you have celiac disease.
Learn some tips for communicating your needs and coping with your friends' reactions to you having scoliosis surgery.
There are certain people who need to know about your scoliosis surgery. Read about why you should inform your dentist and airport security.
Learn about strokes occurring in newborns. Stroke is caused by a blockage of the blood vessels in the brain and can happen at any age. Stroke occurs as frequently in newborns as in the elderly, yet it often goes unrecognized and untreated.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) deficiency is a type of hypopituitarism hormone deficiency that affects the kidneys. Learn about what happens to the body in ADH deficiency, how it is diagnosed and treated.
Diarrhea causes frequent, loose bowel movements. Read about the causes of diarrhea in babies and children and how to prevent dehydration.
Learn helpful tips when talking to your child about illness.
Consent is the choice to allow or not allow something to happen, such as treatment. Find out more about consent, who gives it and how it is given.
Discover online and community resources and support groups that can help you adjust to life after treatment and cope with any changes you feel or experience.
Some medications can interact with each other. Learn about taking other medications while on chemotherapy and what you need to know about drug and alcohol use.
Diet and exercise directly affect your sickle cell disease and how you feel. Read about how a healthy diet, enough water and regular exercise can help you manage sickle cell disease.
There are many things that need to be considered when having radiation therapy. Find out some important things to think about during treatment as well as after radiation therapy is complete.
