Parent Advice Online - Topics Related to Healthy Children

The Children’s Hospital’s Parent Advice Online provides you with the quick tips you need on over 275 topics related to the health of your infant, child or teenager. This free information has been developed by Dr. Bart Schmitt, a pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital.

Accident Prevention
Eating: Older Children
Feeding
Health Promotion: Staying Well
Infant Care
Newborn Care

Accident Prevention

• Animal bites: Prevention
• Drowning: Prevention
• Electrical shock: Prevention
• Falls and head injury: Prevention
• Hot weather illness: Prevention
• Poisoning: Prevention
• Swimming for toddlers
• Walkers: A major health hazard

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Eating: Older Children

• Appetite slump in toddlers
• Cow’s milk: The facts
• Fast food myths
• Finicky eaters
• Foods that cause choking 
• Healthy diet
• Junk food myth 
• Keeping mealtime pleasant
• Low cholesterol diet
• Overweight preschoolers
• Overweight teens
• Playing with food 
• Six health problems relating to diet
• Slow eaters and fast eaters 
• Snacks
• The candy myth
• The vitamin supplement myth

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Feeding

• Breast-feeding and medications
• Breast-feeding: How to improve milk supply
• Breast-feeding: Is your baby getting enough?
• Breast-feeding: Painful breasts or sore nipples
• Breast-feeding: Supplemental formula or water
• Breast-feeding: Vitamins and minerals
• Finger foods
• Formulas: Choosing the right one
• Formula preparation and feeding
• Nighttime feedings: Newborns
• Overweight babies: Prevention
• Solid foods: What and when
• Spitting Up
• Spoon-feeding problems
• Weaning from the bottle
• Weaning from the breast
• Weaning problems: Prevention

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Health Promotion: Staying Well

• Baby-bottle tooth decay: Prevention
• Baths: Too much soap
• Chicken pox vaccine
• Doctor visits: Making them go better
• Immunization reactions
• Immunizations: Recommended ones
• Lead poisoning: Prevention
• Secondhand smoke
• Shoes
• Skin cancer: Prevention
• Stimulating your infant’s development
• Sunglasses: Preventing cataracts
• Tooth decay: Prevention (toddlers and preschoolers)

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Infant Care

• Crib death: Prevention
• Diaper rash  
• Pacifiers
• Tear duct, blocked
• Teething myths
• Thrush
• Umbilical hernia

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Newborn Care

• Colic: Home treatment
• Colic: Myths about
• Crying: What it means
• Face rashes
• Foreskin: Normal care 
• Jaundiced newborn
• New parent exhaustion: Prevention 
• New parents: Common worries
• Newborn appearance
• Newborns: Normal behavior and reflexes
• Normal skin care 
• Sibling rivalry with newborn
• Sleep position
• The circumcision decision
• The postpartum blues
• Umbilical cord problems

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