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Children's information leaflets

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• Admission to Bellhouse Drayson Ward with flu-like symptoms (pdf)
• After your child has had sedation (pdf)
• Anaesthetic: what happens after your child's general anaesthetic (pdf)
• Anaesthetic: what happens after your child's local anaesthetic (pdf)
• Anaesthetic: children's general anaesthetic MRI - information and fasting instructions for children having a morning scan (pdf)
• Anaesthetic: children's general anaesthetic MRI - information and fasting instructions for children having an afternoon scan (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: how to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: how to recognise and manage mild to moderate allergic reactions in children (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: severe allergic reaction action plan (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: mild to moderate allergic reaction action plan (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: how to do an egg and cow's milk challenge at home (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: general food challenges at home (pdf)
• Allergic reactions: oral allergy syndrome (pdf)
• Alopecia - dealing with questions and staring (pdf)
• Anorectal malformations (ARM) in girls (pdf) 
• Appendicectomy (pdf)
• Being on warfarin (pdf)
• Bullying and teasing - guide for children and young people (pdf)
• Bullying and teasing - guide for parents and carers (pdf) 
• Cardiac catheterisation (pdf)
• Chest drains (pdf)
• Circumcision (pdf)
• Cystoscopy and STING (pdf)
• Dacro Cysto Rhinostomy (DCR) in children to improve tear drainage (pdf)
• Ear: repair of a perforated eardrum (myringoplasty) (pdf) 
• Food challenges (pdf)
• Gastroenterology: Azathioprine (pdf)
• Gastroenterology: Mesalazine (pdf)
• Gastroenterology: Steroids (pdf)
• Gastroenterology: Sulfasalazine (pdf)
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) test (pdf)
• Grommets surgery for glue ear (pdf)
• Hirschsprung disease (pdf) 
• Hydrocele repair (pdf)
• Hypospadias: treatment for hypospadias (pdf)
• Important information for parents, carers and patients about all your medication (pdf)
• Important information for parents, carers and patients when using medication as part of a Clinical Trial (pdf) 
• Information for inpatients and their parents / carers - the Children's Hospital (pdf)
  updated June 2010
• Intussusception and its treatment (pdf) 
• Imatinib (Glivec) used in the treatment of Philadelphia positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (pdf)
• Inguinal hernia repair (pdf)
• Isotretinoin: how to give Isotretinoin to a child who cannot swallow capsules (pdf)
• Isotretinoin: guidelines on how to give Isotretinoin (Roaccutane) to a child who cannot swallow capsules (pdf)
• Isotretinoin: guidelines on how to give Isotretinoin (Roaccutane) to a child with a Nasogastric or Gastrostomy Tube (pdf) 
• Kamran's Ward (pdf)
• Lumbar puncture (pdf)
• Mastoid surgery (pdf) 
• Melatonin sedative for a sleep ECG (pdf)
• MRSA: Screening for MRSA in babies (pdf)
• Nissen's fundoplication (pdf)
• Oral cyclophosphamide to treat rhabdomyosarcoma (pdf)
• Oral surgery (pdf)
• Paediatric Critical Care (pdf)
• Paediatric High Dependency Unit (pdf)   
• Pain relief after your child's day case surgery (pdf)
• Physiotherapy: how physiotherapy can help your child (pdf) 
• Plaster of Paris: Discharge advice for a child who has had plaster of Paris applied to a limb (pdf)
• Prepucial adhesions (pdf)
• Procarbazine (pdf)
• Propranolol treatment for infantile haemangioma (pdf) 
• Pyloric Stenosis (pdf)
• Questions and staring - guide for children and young people (pdf)
• Questions and staring - guide for parents and carers (pdf) 
• Rectal biopsy (pdf)
• Speech: Craniofacial Unit - speech and language therapy (pdf)
• Teeth: caring for your baby's first teeth (pdf)
• Thoracotomy (pdf)
• Tom's Ward (pdf) 
• Umbilical hernia repair (pdf)
• Undescended testes (pdf)
• What happens after your child's minor operation (pdf)

 

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