Learn how to gradually increase your activity level and plan for active and rest days to manage sickle cell pain.
A supracondylar humerus fracture is a fracture just above the elbow. Learn how to help your child recover and when to see a doctor.
Read about various types of congenital malformations of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
Learn how to recognize life-threatening bleeding, prevent shock and stop severe bleeds.
Addison's disease is a rare autoimmune disease. Learn about the signs and treatment and why it occurs more often in people with type 1 diabetes.
Learn about possible causes of limping in children.
Learn about open-heart, closed-heart, and minimally invasive heart surgery.
Learn why blood counts are important after your child's blood and marrow transplant.
Learn about surgery to repair a hernia and how to care for your child after the operation.
Information about signs, symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention of muscle strain.
Learn how to wear and take care of a thoracic-lumbo-sacral orthosis (TLSO).
Discover how to improve fatigue with daily exercise, saving your energy when you feel tired and getting a good night's sleep.
A body cast is a special type of cast that helps treat your child’s spinal curvature or protect spinal instrumentation after surgery. Learn how to take care of your child while they wear the cast and after it is removed.
This year, it is more important than ever to get a flu shot. Learn about the flu shot and COVID-19, symptoms of flu and flu prevention.
A guide on how to insert your child's nasogastric tube.
Learn how to prevent and treat heat-related illness in children and teens who exercise in hot and humid conditions.
A spinal brace is worn over a cotton undershirt. Learn about making stockinette undershirts.
Learn the steps for disintegrating mercaptopurine (6-MP) tablets in an oral syringe.
A ureteral reimplant is an operation that stops urine, or pee, from going back into the kidneys from the bladder. Learn how to care for your child at home after the procedure.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
Bacteria can attach itself to shunts and become infected. Read about the surgery your child needs, and the antibiotics that will help clear the infection.
Learn how to recognize a concussion after a head injury and when to see a health-care provider or seek emergency care.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a rare but serious disease that affects the bowels of premature or newborn infants. Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment of the condition.
An ostomy is an opening to collect urine or stool outside the body. Learn about different types of ostomies and what they look like.
