New Children's Hospital iPhone App Is Reassuring
It's pretty much common sense that if your kid gets a sliver, you take it out. But what if it's a really big, really deep one that you can't remove? In her foot, so it hurts when she walks?
And it's 5 p.m. so you'd have to go to the emergency room for medical care? The new St. Louis Children's Hospital
It's a searchable listing of 88 general categories like insect bites, cough, diarrhea and sunburn -- many of the common things I've wondered about myself. All the info is available online already, on the hospital's homepage, but what makes the
The Kid Care app relies on clinical protocols widely used across the United States and Canada -- which means you're looking at the same info as doctors and nurses at 10,000 practices and 400 nurse advice call centers. To download the app, click here.
By Amy De La Hunt, Health Blogger for SmartParenting
Share This Story
Amy De La Hunt is a journalist and editor who lives in the St. Louis metro area and works across the country as a writer, copy editor, project manager and editorial consultant on everything from fiction books to monthly magazines to blog posts. When she's not chauffeuring her teenage sons to activities, Amy is an enthusiastic amateur cook, landscaper, Latin dancer and traveler. Follow Amy on Instagram @amy_in_words
