Fact Sheets

Translations of Fact Sheets

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A

• Abdominal pain (stomach ache)
• Aboriginal Otitis Media (OM)
• Adenoidectomy
• Allergy and allergy tests
• Allergy - Anapen® use
• Allergy - egg
• Allergy - egg free diet
• Allergy - EpiPen® use
• Allergy - fish
• Allergy - food allergies & eczema
• Allergy - fruit and vegetable
• Allergy - house dust mite
• Allergy - latex
• Allergy - milk
• Allergy - milk free diet
• Allergy - peanut
• Allergy - peanut & tree nut free diet
• Allergy - peanut free diet
• Allergy - seafood
• Allergy - soy
• Allergy - soy free diet
• Allergy - tree nuts
• Anapen® use
• Anaesthesia and day surgery
• Anorexia nervosa in children (pdf)
• Anterior knee (patella) pain in children and adolescents
• Anxiety in children (pdf)
• Appendicitis
• Arterio-venous malformation of the brain
• Asthma - action plan for young people (pdf)
• Asthma - action plan - Kaleidoscope (pdf 55K)
• Asthma - childcare record card (pdf)
• Asthma - children's information pack (pdf) - contains all asthma fact sheets
• Asthma - cleaning spacers and puffers
• Asthma - contact list for further information
• Asthma - daily symptoms diary (pdf)
• Asthma - helpful tips in managing your child's asthma
• Asthma - medications
• Asthma - student record (pdf)
• Asthma - trigger factors
• Asthma - using inhalation devices (pdf)
• Asthma - using spacers with a face mask
• Asthma - using spacers without a face mask
• Asthma - what is it?
• Autistic spectrum disorder

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B

• Baby products and baby furniture
• Baby's eyes
• Baby's first foods
• Back Care for Parents & Carers of children with Rett Syndrome
• Barium enema
• Barium swallow
• Basic life support
• Bed wetting
• Biliary Atresia
• Bites and stings
• Blood transfusion
• Boosting iron intake
• Bowlegs and knock-knees
• Brain death and organ donation
• Brain injury factsheets
• Breath holding spells
• Bronchiolitis
• Burns and scalds - burn care advice

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C

• Can your child hear?
• Cataracts - congenital
• Catheterisation and supra pubic urine aspiration
• Cerebral Palsy (CP)
• Chickenpox
• Choking on food - how to prevent children from
• Chronic granulomatous disease
• Chronic illness
• Circumcision
• Child and adolescent mental health services in NSW (pdf)
• Clean catch urine collection (pdf 119K)
• Cleft lip and / or palate
• Cleft lip and / or palate - feeding your baby
• Coeliac disease
• Connective tissue dysplasia
• Constipation
• Contact burns
• Contact lenses and patching therapy
• Contact lenses - helpful hints for parents
• CPR
• Croup
• Crutches
• Crying babies
• CT Scan
• Cutaneous leishmaniasis
• Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

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D

• DAMP (Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perceptual abilities)
• Daytime wetting
• Deaf in one ear - babies and preschool children
• Deaf in one ear - the school child
• Deafness inheritance
• Depression in children (pdf)
• Developmental delay
• Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH)
• Diabetes and physical activity
• Disruptive disorders in children (pdf)
• Drips - the facts

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E

• Ear problems in children
• Early speech and language
• Ears - Can your baby hear?
• Echocardiogram
• Eczema
• Eczema - wet dressing
• Egg allergy
• Egg free diet
• Electrical safety
• Epidural anaesthesia
• EpiPen® use
• Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
• Eye Patch - How to make

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F

• Febrile convulsions
• Fetal echocardiogram
• Fever
• Fifth Disease or Slapped Cheek Disease
• Fish allergy
• Flame burns
• Flat feet
• Food allergies & eczema
• Food intake record
• Food safety
• Fractures - bone healing

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G

• Gastroenteritis
• Glue ear and grommets

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H

• Haberman or mini-Haberman feeder (pdf) 322K
• Haemangiomas
• Hair loss (trichotillomania)
• Healthy eating for toddlers
• Healthy lifestyle for a healthy weight
• Healthy snack choices
• Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura (HSP)
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• High energy eating for children
• High energy eating for infants & toddlers
• Hip abduction orthosis
• Home safety checklist
• Hot water burns like fire
• House Dust Mite Allergy
• How do I know if my child has a weight problem?
• How do I prepare my child for planned surgery?
• How to get kids to be more active
• How to make an eye patch
• How to make infant formula
• How to prevent children from choking on food
• How to prevent holiday weight gain
• How to talk to kids about losing weight
• Hungry Human Beans: A Guide to Vegetarian Diets in Children
• Hydration and the active child
• Hydroceles
• Hypospadias

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I

• Immunisation
• Impetigo
• Inguinal hernia
• Injuries and how to be prepared
• Intellectual disability
• Intoeing (pigeon toes)
• Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)

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J

• Jaundice in newborn babies

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K

• Kawasaki Disease
• Knee (patella) pain in children and adolescents

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L

• Language development the early years
• Latex allergy
• Low lactose diet
• Lumbar puncture

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M

• Managing toddler meal times
• Mantoux skin test
• Meningitis
• Meningococcal infection
• Microtia
• Micturating Cysto Uretherogram (MCU)
• Milk allergy
• Milk free diet
• Misshapen head in young infants (positional plagiocephaly)
• MRI scan
• Multi Resistant Organisms (MRO)

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N

• Nappy Rash
• Nightmares and night terrors
• Nitrous oxide
• Non-invasive ventilation - education package for carer's (pdf) 1.26M

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O

• Obesity - for my adolescent with a weight problem
• Obesity - for my child with a weight problem
• Obesity - helping your adolescent to lose weight
• Obesity - preventing holiday weight gain
• Opioid Infusion
• Outdoor play safety
• Oximeters - RAD 5™ Massimo®

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P

• Pain
• Painful procedures and operations
• Pain Reliever (Opioid) Infusion
• Passive Smoking
• Patient / Nurse controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Peanut allergy
• Peanut & tree nut free diet
• Peanut free diet
• Perthe's Disease
• Physiotherapy after heart surgery
• Pigeon toes (intoeing)
• Plagiocephaly
• Plaster cast or back slab care - instructions for patients and their carers
• Pneumococcal disease, immunisation and your family
• Pneumonia
• Poisonous plants
• Poisons
• Pressure ulcers
• Preventing children from choking on food
• Preventing holiday weight gain - Managing the school holiday period
• Procedural sedation

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R

• RAD 5™ Massimo® Oximeters
• Radiation... and its uses in Hospitals for Diagnostic Testing
• Recognition of Serious Illness in Children
• Reflux
• Road safety

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S

• Safety factsheets
• Seafood allergy
• Seizures and Epilepsy
• Slapped Cheek Disease or Fifth Disease
• Sleep patterns 0 to 16 years
• Sleep study - what happens to me (John Hunter Children's Hospital) (pdf 92K)
• Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE)
• Snack attach and lunchbox ideas
• Sore throat
• Soy allergy
• Soy free diet
• Spina bifida - be active
• Stomach ache (abdominal pain)
• Stuttering
• Sweat test

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T

• Taking the Pressure Off: A Guide to Preventing Pressure Areas for Parents and Carers
• Teeth - caring for your child's
• Teeth - What to do if a child knocks out their adult front tooth
• Ten tips for safer health care
• The facts about drips
• Tonsillectomy
• Tooth development
• Tracheo-oesophageal fistula
• Transition planning information: growing up and moving on
• Tree nut allergy
• Trichotillomania (hair loss)
• Tuberculosis
• Tucker without tantrums

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U

• Umbilical hernia
• Undescended testes
• Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
• Urine - collection of clean catch (pdf 119K)

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V

• Vegetarian Diets in Children
• Venepuncture
• Ventilation - bilevel

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W

• Weight gain - Managing the school holiday period to prevent weight gain
• Weight loss - all the family needs to be involved
• Weight management tips for parents - helping your adolescent to lose weight
• Weight management tips for parents
• Weight problems in adolescence
• Weight problems in children
• What to do if a child knocks out their adult front tooth
• Whooping Cough

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Y

• Your baby's eyes