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Temperature taking

Learn how to correctly take your child's temperature when they have a fever, depending on their age, and which methods to avoid.

Mycophenolate

Fever in babies and children

A fever can be a sign that the body is fighting an infection. Learn how to properly care for your baby, toddler or child with a fever.

Heat-related illness: How to prevent

Learn how to prevent, recognize and treat dehydration and other heat-related illnesses in children.

During your scoliosis surgery hospital stay

Staying in a hospital can be difficult. Find out tips about how to make your hospital stay a little easier while you are recovering from scoliosis surgery.

Azathioprine

Handling your medications

Cyclosporine

Managing your maintenance medications

Sickle cell disease: Developing a wind-down routine at bedtime

Learn how to create a wind-down routine that you can do in the 30 minutes before bedtime to help your body and mind get ready for sleep.

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.

Sirolimus

Safe handling of hazardous medicines at home: Giving capsule solutions

A guide on dissolving and giving a portion of a hazardous medicine capsule safely.

Prednisone and prednisolone

Cotrimoxazole

Propafenone

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

Sodium polystyrene sulfonate

Your child needs to take medicine called sodium polystyrene sulfonate. This information sheet explains what sodium polystyrene sulfonate does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have while taking it.

Safe handling of hazardous medicines at home: Dissolving and giving whole tablets

A guide to dissolve and give whole tablets of hazardous medicine safely.

Routine self-monitoring after a liver transplant

Nystatin

Dexamethasone

Your child needs to take dexamethasone. This information sheet explains what this medicine does and how to give it to your child. It also explains what side effects or problems your child may have when he or she takes this medicine for a short time.

Allopurinol

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

Levofloxacin

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

Baclofen (Oral)

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

Voriconazole

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