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The following printable articles cover a range of health topics, with tips for parents, tips for kids and teens and recommended reading/viewing put together by the pediatric experts at CHOC. These articles are not meant to replace your child’s professional healthcare team, but rather, to supplement it by giving you helpful tips and tools all in one place.
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Are vegetarian and vegan (plant-based) diets safe for kids?
Although many adults can receive proper nutrition from vegan and vegetarian diets, are they safe for kids? A CHOC dietitian weighs in.
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Let’s talk about it: Childhood mental illness
A CHOC expert helps parents navigate different scenarios of discussing childhood mental illness and how to offer destigmatizing responses.
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What does my child’s cough mean?
A CHOC pediatrician discusses the sounds and signs of common coughs in children and teens, and what to do to help.
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Does my child need the bivalent COVID-19 booster?
A CHOC pediatrician answers parents’ common questions about the bivalent COVID-19 booster for kids 6 months – 18 years.
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How caregivers can promote school success for children with ADHD
Children and teens with ADHD may have challenges when learning in the school environment. A CHOC expert offers tips to parents.
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Post-holiday blues: Depression and returning from winter break
For kids, returning back to school after the fun of the holidays can make them feel depressed or sad. A CHOC expert offers ways to help.
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Food allergy nutrition 101
A CHOC dietitian helps parents of kids with food allergies read nutrition labels to avoid allergens and ensure proper nutrition.
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Practicing gratitude can benefit kids’ mental health
Practicing gratitude with kids can increase desired emotions like joy and contentment while decreasing anxiety and depression.
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Healthy holiday traditions for families
CHOC experts offer healthy holiday traditions that families can adopt to benefit their emotional and physical health.
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Making the most out of holidays spent at the hospital
A CHOC family describes their experience of spending holidays at the hospital and offers advice to parents to help make it memorable.
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Tylenol and Motrin shortage: Safety tips for pain and fever-reducing medications
A CHOC expert offers safety tips for acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Motrin) for relieving aches and fevers from respiratory viruses.
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Is my child too sick to go to school?
A CHOC expert helps parents know when their child needs a sick day from school for symptoms like sore throat, cold, influenza and more.
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Holiday-time tips for managing your child’s undesired behavior
A CHOC expert offers tips to parents whose kids many engage in undesired behaviors during the holiday season.
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Making your home safe for a suicidal or self-harming child
A CHOC psychologist offers life-saving strategies to parents for keeping their home safe for children who have the urge for self-harm.
Topics
- Allergies
- Anxiety
- Appendicitis
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Babies
- Bedwetting
- Birth Defects
- Bullying
- Cancer / Oncology
- Car and Travel Safety
- Celiac
- Cleft Lip
- Cochlear implants
- Cold and Flu
- Concussions
- Controlled Substances
- COVID-19
- Critical Care
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dentistry
- Depression
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Down Syndrome
- Driving
- Ear Infections
- Ears, Nose, Throat / Otolaryngology
- Earthquake Safety
- Eating Disorders
- Emergency
- Endocrinology
- Epilepsy / Seizures
- First Aid
- Food Allergies
- Fun Activities
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics
- Halloween
- Headaches
- Health
- Heart / Cardiology
- Heat and Fire Safety
- Hematology
- Hernia
- Holidays
- Home and Window Safety
- Hydration
- Hygiene
- Immunizations / Vaccinations
- Immunology
- Infectious Disease
- Lactation / Breastfeeding
- Leukemia
- Maternal-fetal care
- Medication
- Mental Health
- Metabolics
- Neonatology / NICU
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- New Year
- Nutrition
- Nutrition and Lactation
- Obesity
- Orthopaedics
- Parenting
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pharmacy
- PICU Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Plastic Surgery
- Primary Care / Family Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rare Disease
- Recipes
- Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy
- Rheumatology
- Safety
- School
- Scoliosis
- Screen Time and Social Media
- Seasonal
- Sexual Health
- Sleep Safety
- Sleeping
- Sports and Fitness
- Sports Medicine
- Suicide Prevention
- Sun and Summer Safety
- Teens – Adolescent Health
- Thanksgiving
- Tonsils
- Traumatic Events
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Urology
- Vision / Ophthalmology
- Water Safety