Kids Health Fact Sheets

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Allergy
Allergy and allergy tests
Anapen Use
Egg Allergy
Egg Free Diet
EpiPen Use
Fish Allergy (includes all fish and seafood)
Food Allergies and Eczema
Fruit and Vegetable Allergy
House dust mite allergy - what should you do?
Latex Allergy
Milk Allergy
Milk free (Dairy Free) diet
Milk free diet
Peanut allergy
Peanut and Tree Nut Free Diet
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Allergy
Peanut Free Diet
Seafood Allergy
Sesame free diet
Soy Allergy
Soy Free Diet
Tree Nut allergy
Urticaria (Hives)
Basic Life Support
Basic Life Support for Children over 12 months
Basic Life Support for Children over 12 months with a Tracheostomy
Basic Life Support For Infants Less Than 12 months
Basic Life Support For Infants Less Than 12 months with a Tracheostomy
Bones & Muscles
Anterior Knee pain in children and adolescents
Bowlegs and knock-knees
Broomstick plaster
Cerebral Palsy
Connective tissue dysplasia
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)
Flat feet
Fractures - bone healing
Hip abduction orthosis
Intoeing in children (pigeon toes)
Perthes' disease
Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
Thermoplastic Splint Care
Wheelchair
You and your crutches - instructions for safe crutchwalking
Brain & Nervous System
Arterio-venous malformation of the brain
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Brain injury information sheets
DAMP (Deficits in Attention, Motor Control and Perceptual Abilities)
Developmental Delay

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Brain & Nervous System

Head Injury Card
Intellectual Disability
Mild head injury and concussion
Chest & Lungs
Assessing the severity of your child's asthma attack
Asthma - Contact List For Further Information
Asthma Action Plan for Children and Young People
Asthma Education Newsletter - Summer 2012
Asthma introduction and discharge checklist
Asthma medications commonly used for children
Asthma Trigger Factors
Bronchiolitis
Child/Student Asthma First Aid Record
Children's Asthma Information Pack
Chronic Neonatal Lung Disease
Croup
Daily Asthma Symptoms Diary
Fact sheet for parents/carers in Hunter Baillie - Long Term Ventilation Unit
Giving Your Child Asthma Medications
Helpful Asthma Management Tips In Managing Your Child's Asthma
Oesophageal atresia and/or tracheo-oesophageal fistula
Passive smoking
Pneumonia
Respiratory Support Service: The role of the Clinical Nurse Consultant
Using a Puffer and Spacer Device
Using Other Asthma Inhalation Devices
What is Asthma
Chronic Illness
Chronic illness
Oncology Long Term Follow Up Clinic
Common Illness
Abdominal Pain (Stomach Ache)
Constipation
Eczema
Eczema: Wet Dressing

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Common Illness
Febrile convulsions
Fever
Gastroenteritis in children
Impetigo
Jaundice in newborn babies
Meningitis
Meningococcal infection
Pneumococcal disease, immunisation and your family
Recognition of Serious Illness in Children
Seizures and Epilepsy
Slapped cheek disease or Fifth disease
Sore Throat
Urinary tract infection in children
Whooping cough
Common Problems
Bedwetting
Daytime wetting
Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
Mis-shapen head in young infants (Positional Plagiocephaly)
Nappy rash
Reflux
The Crying Baby
Ears
Can your child hear?
Deaf in One Ear: The School Child
Ear problems in children
Glue Ear and Grommets
Hearing loss in children with Down syndrome
Hearing loss in One Ear: Babies & PreSchool Children
Microtia
Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection)
The Inheritance of deafness
Emotional & Behavioural
Breath-holding spells
Trichotillomania

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Eyes
Congenital cataracts
Contact lenses and children - helpful hints from parents
How to make an eye patch
Your babys eyes
Your child's contact lenses and patching therapy
Face, Mouth & Speech
Cleft lip and palate
Cleft lip and/or palate - feeding your baby
Cleft Lip Palate Feeding Bottles and Teats
Early speech and language development: for carers of babies born with cleft palate
Language development the early years
Medela Special Needs Feeder
Stuttering
Using the Pigeon Cleft Palate Teat
Food
A healthy lifestyle for a healthy weight
Baby's first foods
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding... Is it for me?
Food intake record
Food safety
Healthy Eating for Toddlers
High energy additions to foods
High Energy Eating for Children
High Energy Eating for Infants & Toddlers
How to make infant formula
Hungry Human Beans: A Guide to Vegetarian Diets in Children
Introduction to Solids
Managing Toddler Mealtimes
Ways to boost iron intake
Immune System
Chronic granulomatous disease
Coeliac Disease
Infections
Chickenpox

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Infections
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Children
Kawasaki Disease
Multi-resistant organisms (MRO)
Tuberculosis (TB)
Liver / Kidney
Biliary Atresia
Mental Health
Anorexia Nervosa in Children
Anxiety in children
Depression in children
Disruptive disorders in children
NSW Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Obesity
For my adolescent with a weight problem: Where to from here?
For my child with a weight problem: Where to from here?
Healthy Snack Choices
How do I know if my child has a weight problem
How to get the kids to be more active
How to talk to kids about weight
Losing weight: why the whole family needs to be involved
Preventing Holiday Weight Gain - Managing the School Holiday Period
Weight management tips for parents
Weight management tips for parents: Helping your adolescent to lose weight
Your child: their sleep and their weight
Physical Activity
Be active with spina bifida
Hydration and the Active Child
Physical Activity and Diabetes
Poisons
Bites and stings
Poisonous plants
Poisons

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Procedures & Tests

Anaesthesia and day surgery
Anaesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
Barium enema
Barium swallow
Blood Transfusion
Catheterisation and supra pubic urine aspiration
Circumcision
CT scan (computerised tomography)
Echocardiogram
Epidural analgesia
Fetal echocardiogram
Immunisation
Intravenous Pyelogram (IVP)
Lumbar puncture
Mantoux skin test
Micturating Cysto Uretherogram (MCU)
MRI scan
Nitrous oxide
Opioid Infusion
Patient/Nurse controlled analgesia
Physiotherapy for children after heart surgery
PICC Lines in Neonates
Procedural sedation
Radiation... and its uses in Hospitals for Diagnostic Testing
Sweat test
The facts about drips
Venepuncture
Vesicostomy
Safety
Baby products and furniture
Back Care for Parents and Carers of Children with Rett Syndrome
Home safety
Looking after your Back
Outdoor play safety
Poisons
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Safety
Road safety
Skin
Haemangiomas
Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura (HSP)
Pressure Ulcers
Sleep
Bi-Level Ventilation
CPAP
CPAP Care and Maintenance of Equipment
Humidification for CPAP and BiLevel Machines
Nightmares and night terrors
Normal Sleep Patterns 0 - 16 Years
Respiratory Support Service (RSS): Equipment Hire
Sleep Study
Surgery & Hospital
Adenoidectomy
Appendicitis
Burns and Scalds - Burn Care Advice
Children's pain - the facts
Children's painful procedures and operations - how can parents help?
How Do I Prepare My Child for Planned Surgery
Hydroceles
Hypospadias
Inguinal hernia
Tonsillectomy
Umbilical hernia
Undescended testes
Teeth
Caring for your child's teeth
Tooth development
What to do if a child knocks out their adult front tooth
Transition
Financial issues
GPs
Growing Up and Moving On: Transition Planning Information

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Transition
Is your teen ready?
Rights and responsibilities
Translations
Allergy and allergy tests - Arabic
Allergy and allergy tests - Chinese
Allergy and allergy tests - Vietnamese
Anorexia Nervosa in Children
Anxiety in children
Baby's first foods - Arabic
Baby's first foods - Chinese
Baby's first foods - Vietnamese
Bedwetting - Arabic
Bedwetting - Chinese
Bedwetting - Vietnamese
Bronchiolitis - Arabic
Bronchiolitis - Chinese
Bronchiolitis - Vietnamese
Chickenpox - Arabic
Chickenpox - Chinese
Chickenpox - Vietnamese
Children's asthma information pack - Arabic
Children's asthma information pack - Bengali
Children's asthma information pack - Chinese
Children's asthma information pack - Nepali
Children's asthma information pack - Vietnamese
Children's teeth - Arabic
Children's teeth - Chinese
Children's teeth - Vietnamese
Constipation - Arabic
Constipation - Chinese
Constipation - Indonesian
Constipation - Khmer
Constipation - Korean
Constipation - Serbian
Constipation - Thai
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Translations
Constipation - Turkish
Constipation - Vietnamese
Crying Baby - Arabic
Crying Baby - Chinese
Crying Baby - Vietnamese
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - Dari
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - Farsi
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - Urdu
Depression in children
Disruptive disorders in children
Febrile convulsions - Arabic
Febrile convulsions - Chinese
Febrile convulsions - Vietnamese
Fever - Arabic
Fever - Chinese
Fever - Vietnamese
Gastroenteritis - Arabic
Gastroenteritis - Chinese
Gastroenteritis - Vietnamese
Hepatitis C - Chinese
Language development - the early years - Bengali
Meningitis - Arabic
Meningitis - Chinese
Meningitis - Vietnamese
Oncology long term follow up clinic - French
Passive smoking - Arabic
Passive smoking - Chinese
Passive smoking - Vietnamese
Peanut allergy - Arabic
Peanut allergy - Bosnian
Peanut allergy - Chinese
Peanut allergy - Dinka
Peanut allergy - Farsi
Peanut allergy - Khmer
Peanut allergy - Korean
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Translations
Peanut allergy - Samoan
Peanut allergy - Thai
Peanut allergy - Tongan
Peanut allergy - Turkish
Peanut allergy - Vietnamese
Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers - Arabic
Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers - Bengali
Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers - Chinese
Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers - Vietnamese
Urinary tract infection - Arabic
Urinary tract infection - Chinese
Urinary tract infection - Vietnamese
Colouring-in sheets
Health and safety colouring-in sheets

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