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Vegetarian feeding guidelines for babies and toddlers

… Continue to offer your child human milk (breastmilk) with complementary foods until 2 years of age or older. 6 to 12 …
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Vegan feeding guidelines for babies and toddlers

… Human milk (breast milk) Continue to offer human milk with complementary foods until 2 years of age or older If you …
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Sputum testing for Tuberculosis TB

… organs. TB is curable. In British Columbia, you can get medicines to prevent or cure TB. The medicines are free through Provincial TB Services and public … way to find out if you have TB disease. If you are taking medicine for TB, testing your sputum is one of the ways to …
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Living well with hepatitis B virus infection

… B. Chronic hepatitis B infection can be treated with oral medicines that can slow down the progression of liver injury … Check with your health care provider before taking any new medicines or vitamins, including over the counter and herbal medicines. Avoid ibuprofen Get tested for HIV, hepatitis C …
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Childhood vaccines are safe

… illnesses. These studies are posted at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies … https://nap.nationalacademies.org/author/HMD/health-and-medicine-division . Are newer vaccines safer than older …
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Home isolation for Tuberculosis TB

… reproductive organs. It is curable. In British Columbia, medicines to prevent or cure TB are free through Provincial … Remain in your home and avoid contact with others Take your medicines as directed, eat healthy foods and get plenty of …
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Tuberculosis TB

… reproductive organs. TB is curable. In British Columbia, medicines to prevent or cure TB are free through Provincial … up” and making you sick. The TB preventive treatment medicines are recommended for those people most likely to …
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HIV testing in pregnancy

… chance is mostly eliminated if you consistently take HIV medicines to reduce the amount of virus in your body. HIV …
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Hand washing Help stop the spread of germs

… Feed a baby or child, including breastfeeding Give a child medicine Change a diaper Floss your teeth Insert or remove …
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Childhood vaccines What is in the vaccines and why

… to children. These studies are posted at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies …