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Pain relief: Comfort kit

Learn techniques to help distract your child from, and manage, their pain in the hospital and at home.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain with comfort positions and distraction

​Find out how you can use comfortable positions and distractions with your child to ease pain from needle pokes.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain in children aged 18 months or over

Discover the CARD system, which offers strategies your child or teen can use to cope with the pain and fear associated with vaccination.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain in infants aged up to 18 months

Find out how to reduce the pain of needle pokes for your baby.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain with sucrose or breastfeeding

​Find out how to offer sucrose or breastfeeding to ease your child's pain from needle pokes.

Pain at home: Taking care of your child

This page give advice on how to relieve a child's pain at home.

Other types of pain

Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain with numbing cream

Learn when, where and how to apply numbing cream to ease the pain of needle pokes for your child.

Pain in newborns and babies

Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.

Managing sickle cell pain

Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit

A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit: Ages 18+

A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario who are 18 years of age or older.

Managing sickle cell pain

Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.

Treating and managing cancer-related pain in children

​Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage cancer-related pain in children.

Morphine for pain relief in children

Morphine is a type of strong pain relief medicine called an opioid. This page is about the use of morphine for pain relief in children.

Pain after an operation: Taking care of your child's pain at home

Most children have at least some pain after an operation, which is called post-operative pain. Learn about relieving a child's post-operative pain at home.

Pain medicines

Learn about pain relief medication and how to administer it, including patient controlled analgesia.

First aid kit

Find a list of supplies and medicines to include in a first aid kit. It is recommended that there be an equipped first aid kit in the house and in the car.

Opioids for pain

Learn why opioids such as morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone and fentanyl are prescribed and how they help manage pain in children.

The future of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

The future of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

Pain treatment

Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.

Myelogram: Caring for your child at home after the procedure

Learn how to how to care for your child at home after a myelogram.

Central venous line (CVL) insertion into the internal jugular vein: Caring for your child at home after the procedure

Learn how to care for child at home after a CVL insertion procedure.