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- Paediatric Diabetes Team
Title - Advice for young people with type 1 diabetes in the workplace and university
Description - Moving away and starting university is an exciting chapter, but it can also bring some nervous feelings. Living with type 1 diabetes means there are a few extra things to think about if moving away to university.Title - Carbohydrate counting
Description - Being able to carbohydrate count means you can work out the carbohydrate content of all the meals and snacks you eat. We will show you how to work out the carbohydrate content of your meals and snacks by reading food labels, weighing foods and by using books and apps.Title - Glycaemic Index
Description - The Glycaemic Index (GI) is a guide as to how quickly or slowly carbohydrate foods affect blood glucose levels. All carbohydrate foods are broken down to produce glucose but different foods are broken down at different rates and are given a number in comparison to pure glucose which has a GI of 100.Title - Introduction to recipe calculation and Type 1 Diabetes
Description - Carbohydrate counting recipes can take a few more steps compared to counting individual foods. This is particularly relevant for home cooked meals and baking. This leaflet will guide you through the basic principles of recipe calculation.Title - Moving from the children's to the adult diabetes service
Description - As you have now reached adolescence it is time to consider how your diabetes care will change when you move from childrens’ to adult services. This information leaflet should alleviate some of the anxieties you may have, and give you a better understanding of what changes to expect. - Paediatric Emergency Department
- Paediatrics
Title - Children coming into hospital for an operation
Description - You and your child will have been seen in an out patient clinic by a doctor or a surgeon who has arranged for your child to have an operation or procedure. This leaflet explains what to expect when your child comes into Whiston Hospital to have a test or operation under general anaesthetic.Title - Chronic constipation
Description - Normal bowel habits can vary considerably in frequency amongst people. A child with bowel movements less than 3 times per week, is probably constipated. However, pain and/or excessive straining with discomfort during bowel movements are abnormal and are suggestive of constipation.Title - Coeliac Disease
Description - Coeliac disease is a condition where your immune system attacks your own tissues when you eat gluten. This damages your gut (small intestine) so your body cannot properly take in nutrients. Coeliac disease can cause a range of symptoms, including diarrhoea, abdominal pain and bloating.Title - Day case dental patients what to expect (Paediatrics)
Description - You will be asked to arrive at hospital for 7.30am and you will be given an allocated bed space on the ward. Usually there are 3 dental patients, sometimes 4. You should expect to be at hospital until late morning, maybe lunchtime.Title - Febrile convulsion (fit)
Description - A febrile convulsion (fit) is a common medical condition in young children and in most cases is triggered by a rapidly rising temperature. It affects children between the ages of six months and six years. For the vast majority of children with simple febrile convulsion, the outcome is excellent. Although they appear like epileptic fits they rarely have anything in common with epilepsy.Title - Giving your Child Medication/s
Description - Giving your child medicines. Every child will need to take medicines at some point during childhood but we know from talking to parents that this can be a worrying time. This information leaflet will explain the best way to help you give your child their medicines safely.Title - Growth Hormone Stimulation Test Clonidine / Arginine
Description - Growth hormone is essential for normal growth and is made by the pituitary gland (located at the base of the brain). It is then released into the blood stream and it travels to the body’s tissues helping with growth and development.Title - Guide to asthma inhalers and spacers
Description - A positive attitude is encouraged at all times when using inhalers and spacers with children. Initiating play tactics whenever possible will encourage the child to tolerate the mask on their face gently. Hold the mask in place for a slow count to ten after each actuation (puff) of the inhaler. Parents and nursing staff can sing a nursery rhyme instead of counting if they wish, or get the child to watch a favourite video or look through a picture book. Distraction and praise is the key to success.Title - Long Lines for treatment
Description - Some very sick children have serious medical problems that require very complex management. One of the problems is that babies often require a special line (drip) into one of their veins through which important intravenous (into the vein) medications and fluids can be given because they are too sick to take medicines by mouth.Title - Low dose Synacthen Test and None-Fasting Hormone Test (NFHT)
Description - The Low dose Synacthen Test is used for the diagnosis of reduced adrenal gland function. The principle of the test is to stimulate the adrenal gland with synthetic hormone (Synacthen) to see how much cortisol is made in response. The test involves blood tests and an injection.Title - Manipulation under general anaesthetic and care of plaster cast
Description - An injury to a limb can cause a bone to come out of a joint (dislocation), or cause a break in the bone (fracture.) A child with a broken bone will be unable to move the affected part. There will be swelling and sometimes obvious deformity. Your child will also be in some pain. An x-ray will be taken to tell us exactly what is broken.Title - Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
Description - The Heart is made up of four chambers: the upper two chambers are called the atrium and the lower two are known as ventricles. Muscular walls, called septum, divide the heart into two sides. On the right side of the heart, the right atrium and ventricle work to pump deoxygenated blood to the lungs; on the left side, the left atriumTitle - Port-a-Cath Central Venous Access Device
Description - Some children have long term chronic conditions or diseases which require frequent blood sampling or intravenous treatments such as blood transfusions or antibiotics. Having a Port-a-Cath (port) enables access to the child’s major veins to enable this to happen.Title - Prolonged Jaundice
Description - Jaundice is the name given to the yellow appearance of the skin and eyes. It is due to the build of up of a chemical in the body called bilirubin, which is normally passed out of the body in urine and stool (poo). Jaundice is fairly common in new-born babies.Title - Vesico Ureteric Reflux (VUR)
Description - VUR occurs in about one in every 100 children. It is ten times more common in white children than black children, and is also a lot more common in girls than in boys. If one child in a family has VUR, there is a chance that the other children could have VUR too, so monitoring might be suggested for brothers and sisters. VUR is usually diagnosed in under fives. It is much less common in older children, who may have outgrown the problem.Title - Vulvovaginitis
Description - Young girls sometimes complain of burning or pain when they wee (dysuria), and although this can sometimes be a sign of a urinary tract infection, it is more commonly caused by irritation of the skin in and around the vaginal area (vulvovaginitis) or at the opening of the urethra (urethritis).Title - Whooping Cough
Description - Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is an infection of the lining of the respiratory tract. Mainly affecting babies and young children, it is called whooping cough because of the characteristic ‘whoop’ sound that is made by a sharp intake of breath following a bout of coughing. - Pain Team
Title - Fascia Iliaca block
Description - Treating and managing pain following fracture neck of femurTitle - Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
Description - Following surgery your doctor may prescribe you PCA. This is a system that involves a cannula in your arm being connected to a machine containing a supply of pain relieving medication (Morphine). The machine allows you to control the delivery of your own pain relief.Title - Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
Description - Analgesia is the medical term for pain relief medication. Following surgery your doctor may prescribe you PCA. This is a system that involves a cannula in your arm being connected to a machine containing a supply of pain relieving medication (Morphine). The machine allows you to control the delivery of your own pain relief.Title - Rectus Sheath Block
Description - Treating and managing pain following abdominal surgery - Patient Experience
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