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Helping your teen share personal information, come out and deal with being outed

It's up to your child who they talk to about their personal information and what details they choose to share. Find out tips to help your child talk to others about sensitive topics and what to do when others share their personal information without their consent.

Rivaroxaban

Learn about rivaroxaban, a blood thinner used to prevent and treat blood clots in children. Includes use, dosing, side effects and safety tips.

Propranolol

Your child needs to take the medicine called propranolol. This information sheet explains what propranolol does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.

Helping your child transition through health care: Children

Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system and gain independence in managing their own health care.

Getting through the teen years and cancer

Find information to help promote independence in your teenager while continuing to help them manage their cancer treatment.

Getting through the teen years

This page contains information to help parents cope with their increasingly independent teen.

Learning more about your teenager's cancer

Learning more about your teenager’s cancer and about how to help your teen cope and thrive despite it, is one way to help reduce your stress and worries. Having some knowledge may help you feel like you have more control.

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Caring for yourself when your child has cancer

In order to help the people you love, and meet life’s many obligations, you need to take care of yourself. Ignoring your needs can make you become more irritable, negative, short-tempered or resentful.

Impact of cancer on sexuality

Learn how to start a conversation with your teenager about sexuality, and how having cancer and going through treatment can impact their sexuality.

Heart conditions and complementary and alternative therapies

Learn about complementary and alternative therapies and what to consider before you try them.

Coarctation of the aorta

Learn about coarctation of the aorta. This condition involves a narrowing of the major artery leading from the heart to the body, affecting blood pressure.

Coping with a diagnosis of congenital heart defects

Read about coping with a diagnosis. While the diagnosis may be upsetting, the good news is that a child's pain is no longer a mystery.

Growing independence for children with heart disease

Learn about encouraging self-care in children with congenital heart disease.

Infective endocarditis (IE)

Learn about the prevention and treatment of infective endocarditis, a serious infection of the heart.

Heart tumours

Learn about heart tumours in children, and how they are diagnosed. Both the most common types of benign and malignant tumours are discussed.

How respiratory therapists help children with congenital heart conditions

A respiratory therapist (RT) is a health professional specially trained to help patients with breathing disorders. An RT will help care for your child after heart surgery.

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)

Learn about hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). This condition involves the left side of the heart being underdeveloped, and is extremely serious.

Hybrid procedure

The hybrid procedure is sometimes done instead of the Norwood procedure. A heart surgeon and an interventional cardiologist do the procedure.

Heart conditions resources

Books and websites with information about heart conditions in children.

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)

Your child needs to take a medicine that belongs to a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). This information sheet explains what SSRI's do, how to give them, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take these medicines.

Octreotide injection for hyperinsulinemia

Your child needs to take the medicine called octreotide. This information sheet explains what octreotide does, how to give it and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.

Pamidronate

Your child needs to take the medicine called pamidronate. This information sheet explains what pamidronate does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.

Thioguanine

Your child needs to take the medicine called thioguanine. This information sheet explains what thioguanine does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when he takes this medicine.

Thiotepa for stem cell transplant

Your child needs to take the medicine called thiotepa. This information sheet explains what thiotepa does, how it is given, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.