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App review: 4Kids Health from Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital

The 4Kids Health app from the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent in Indianapolis covers it all when it comes to kids’ health. There's a symptom tracker, first aid guide, common medication dosage tables, and clinically-based advice on a variety of health-related issues.

    by Anna Nguyen
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The 4Kids Health app from the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent in Indianapolis covers it all when it comes to kids' health.

Here are some of the main features:

Symptom Tracker: It lets you search under a long list of symptoms. For example, you can look up Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease if you suspect your child has this virus or more general symptoms like mouth ulcers, or a widespread, cause unknown rash. Under Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease, you'll find:

  1. Definition of the condition

  2. If you should call your healthcare provider or go to the Emergency Department immediately, call your doctor within 24 hours, or if you can wait for regular office hours.

  3. Care advice

First Aid: Found under the Symptom Tracker tab, this section includes CPR and choking instructions. Then there are first aid care instructions for children and adults for various injuries on the body, such as burns, cuts, and bleeding.

Quick Parent Advice: This has clinically-based advice on toilet training, eating habits and behavioral concerns. Noticing your toddler isn't eating as much as lately? There's an Appetite Slump in Toddlers categories that says it may be a slowdown in growth and tips on how to deal with it.

Medication Dosage: Provides medication dosage tables by child's weight and age for common over-the-counter medications, such as acetaminophen and diphenhydramine (i.e. Benadryl).

The sections about seeking help at one of the hospital's facilities and more information about St. Vincent aren't helpful for someone in the Philadelphia region, but the other features make it worth having on your device.

The free 4Kids Health app is available for Android and Apple devices.

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