10 Essential Apps That Take the Guess Work Out of Illness

The next time your old standbys—chicken soup, decongestant and ginger ale—don't cut it on a sick day, download one of these.

By Kipp Jarecke-Cheng April 26, 2017

With the ever-increasing complexities of the healthcare system, the adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure rings truer today than ever before. Caring for sick kids can be complicated, but a new batch of family-focused and user-friendly apps aims to help parents and caregivers provide appropriate health care with confidence. Flip through our slideshow of some of the most useful apps to help care for little patients.

Kid’s Health Tracker

Caring for a sick kid can be stressful for even the most easy-going parent, but few things up the ante for parents juggling work and childcare like heaping on the added annoyance of needing to determine what’s actually going on with young patients and keeping track of medications given. Kid’s Health Tracker comes to the rescue with a nicely designed app that helps parents monitor sick kids’ symptoms and track medication use and dosage. Parents can see exactly when their child last had medicine and show the progress of an illness to a doctor during a visit.

Available for iOS, Free.

What are your favorite apps to help manage your family’s health and wellness? Tell us in the comments below!

— Kipp Jarecke-Cheng