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Keeping Your Kids Healthy
Doctor and hospital visits, tests, surgery, insurance paperwork, and medicines: let us help you take some confusion out of the process. Find information on topics such as caring for a seriously or chronically ill child, taking your child to the emergency room, and what to expect at doctor visits.
Doctor & Hospital Visits
- Preparing Your Child for Visits to the Doctor
- How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor
- What's a Nurse Practitioner?
- What's an Osteopath?
- Your Child's Checkups
- Your Child's Checkup: 2 to 4 Weeks
- Your Child's Checkup: 2 Months
- Your Child's Checkup: 4 Months
- Your Child's Checkup: 6 Months
- Your Child's Checkup: 9 Months
- Your Child's Checkup: 12 Months (1 Year)
- Your Child's Checkup: 15 Months
- Your Child's Checkup: 18 Months ( 1-1/2 Years)
- Your Child's Checkup: 2 Years
- Your Child's Checkup: 3 Years
- Your Child's Checkup: 4 Years
- Your Child's Checkup: 5 Years
- Is it a Medical Emergency?
- Going to the Emergency Room
- When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Medical Care and Your 2- to 3-year-old
- Medical Care and Your 4- to 5-year-old
- Medical Care and Your 6- to 12-year-old
- Medical Care and Your 13- to 18-year-old
- Making Sense of Medical News
Caring for a Seriously or Chronically Ill Child
- Financial Management During Crisis
- Birth Defects
- When Your Baby Has a Birth Defect
- Caring for a Seriously Ill Child
- When Your Baby's in the NICU
- Common Diagnoses in the NICU
- When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Chemotherapy
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Cystic Fibrosis and Nutrition
- If Your Child Has a Heart Defect
- Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
- Neurocutaneous Syndromes
- Spina Bifida
- Reye Syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Radiation Therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Having a Child With a Serious Illness: Jo Anne's Story
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Sending Your Child With Special Needs to Camp
- Finding a Camp for Your Child With Special Needs
Medical Tests & Exams
- Basic Blood Chemistry Tests
- Blood Culture
- Complete Blood Count
- EEG (Electroencephalography)
- EKG (Electrocardiography)
- EMG (Electromyography)
- Gene Therapy and Children
- Genetic Counseling
- Genetic Testing
- Hearing Evaluation in Children
- Liver Function Tests
- Lumbar Puncture (Spinal Tap)
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Prenatal Tests
- Stool Tests
- Strep Screen/Throat Culture
- Sweat Test
- Urine Tests
- Your Child's Vision
- Your Daughter's First Gynecological Exam
Medicine
- Alternative Medicine and Your Child
- Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
- Talking to the Pharmacist
- Medication Chart
- Medications: Using Them Safely
- The Danger of Antibiotic Overuse
- Cough and Cold Medicine Abuse
- Chemotherapy
Resources for Parents
- Anesthesia - What to Expect
- Anesthesia Basics
- Preparing Your Child for Anesthesia
- Types of Anesthesia
- U.S. Poison Control Centers
- When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Surgical Conditions
- Circumcision
- Cleft Lip and Palate
- Cochlear Implants
- Could That Lump Be a Hernia?
- Enlarged Adenoids
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Intussusception
- Middle Ear Infections and Ear Tube Surgery
- Tear-Duct Obstruction and Surgery
- Tonsils and Tonsillectomies
