Children's Health

Back-to-School Sickness and Keeping Your Kids Healthy

Back-to-School Sickness and How to Keep Your Kids Healthy Every fall, the same thing happens — kids head back to class, and within a couple of weeks the coughs, colds, and stomach bugs start making the rounds. Back-to-sc...

Back to School Safety Tips for Students & Parents

Stay Safe Coming & Going From School

Whether you were homeschooled, attended public school, or a private school, the universal feeling of preparing to go back to school is inescapable – for students and parents alike. Unfortunately in recent years, the spre...

What Happens During a Sports Physical

Sport Physicals 101

We have all experienced a yearly check-up, aka yearly physical, where the doctor checks your weight, height, funny bone, etc. Ok, maybe not your funny bone–on purpose, but they do check all the necessities of ensuring yo...

When To Keep Your Child Home From School

Kids Get Sick As parents, we know one thing is certain about our children. They are going to get sick. When our tiny humans come to us, they are basically blank slates. That is why we need to teach them everything. Well,...

Sports Physicals

Making Sure Your Athlete Stays Safe On the Field

Is your child planning to play organized sports or join a physical activity like marching band or drill team? If so, their school or organization may require a yearly sports physical. HealthCARE Express offers sports phy...

Try the Pill Trick!

We all remember growing up and making that leap from taking liquid medicine to taking a pill! Many of us might remember struggling with swallowing a pill for the first time— maybe the first several times. Now, you have y...

Sports Injuries

Around 1.5 million student athletes suffer from sports-related injuries every year and are taken to various emergency and urgent care departments in the US. The sport that does the most damage to those playing it, though...

Don't Be Afraid of Shots!

Many children (and some adults) have trypanophobia— the fear of needles. While understandable, it is certainly a problematic fear. It makes doctor’s visits stressful for everyone involved. It also makes it hard for the p...

Practice Doctor's Visits

Going to the doctor is a scary experience for many children, but you can make it less frightening by playing doctor at home! Familiarize your child with the steps and tools used in a pediatric appointment. You can either...

Juice Box Medicine Trick!

Parents know just how hard it is to get their children to take medicine. You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to get them to take something that would make them feel better, but can you blame them? Medicine tastes bad!...