Your child needs to take the medicine called caspofungin. This information sheet explains what caspofungin does, how it is given and what side effects or problems your child may have when they receive this medicine.
Learn about the prevention and treatment of infective endocarditis, a serious infection of the heart.
If your child has a CVL/PICC, you will be taught how to change the cap before your child is discharged from hosptial. Learn the steps you need to follow for a CVL/PICC cap change.
Nipple tenderness is normal in the first week of breastfeeding, but pain is not. Learn how to prevent and treat sore nipples.
Learn about the different tools and sources of information that can help assess your child's pain.
Learn about the principles and safeguards of aseptic non-touch technique (ANTT) that you should follow when doing an aseptic procedure for CVL/PICC dressing and cap changes.
Discover the role of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that live in the GI tract or gut. The world of microorganisms in the GI tract is called the gut microbiome.
Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.
Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.
An overview of the causes, symptoms and treatment of hives — the raised, itchy, red swellings that can appear on the skin.
Learn why heparin locking is done, and the steps you must follow to heparinize your child’s CVL/PICC.
Parents can learn how doctors prevent and treat pneumonia after a blood and marrow transplant (BMT).
An overview of the signs, symptoms, causes and treatment of the fungal skin infection tinea versicolor.
Learn how to give feeds and medication with ENFit supplies and how to properly clean and care for the supplies.
Learn about some of the problems your child may have if they have a cecostomy tube (C-tube). Problems can include the C-tube moving, falling out, getting blocked or causing skin problems.
A pharmacist is part of your health-care team, either at the hospital or in a pharmacy. Learn what a pharmacist is and how they can help you.
A summary of the symptoms, causes and treatments of oral thrush, an infection of the mouth most often found in infants during the first year of life.
Encourage healthy coping behaviours in your teen with these expert tips.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty.
Learn how to use a capsule shredder with a dissolve-and-dose device to prepare capsule medications.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a Furlow palatoplasty.
Find out what the glycemic index is and how it factors in to your child's diabetes management.
Find information about molluscum contagiosum, a common skin infection that looks like small, raised, flesh-coloured bumps.
