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A parent's story - having a son with Down syndrome (video)
Abuse : Family violence
Abuse : information, resources, support
Abuse : Shaken baby syndrome
Abuse : What if I'm worried about a child?
Abuse : When abuse has occurred
Acute otitis media (brief version)
Acute otitis media (detailed version)
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Alcohol and pregnancy
Allergy
Anaesthesia and pain management
Anxiety
Appendicitis
ASD (autism spectrum disorder)
Asthma
Autism Spectrum Disorder
B
Babies : Nappy rash
Babies : Positional head-flattening
Babies : Shaken baby syndrome
Babies : The heel prick test
Babies : Vitamin K
BabyCheck
Bedwetting
Biliary atresia
Biopsy to test for childhood cancer
Boils
Bone marrow aspiration to test for childhood cancer
Bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation in childhood cancer
Bones : Fracture (broken bone)
Breath-holding spells
Breathing : Lungs and breathing
Bronchiolitis
Bx (bronchiectasis)
Bx (bronchiectasis) action plan
Bx (bronchiectasis): information for schools
C
Cancer
Cancer diagnosis
Cancer treatment
Cancer treatment : Bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation
Cancer treatment : Chemotherapy
Cancer treatment : Going home from hospital after your child's cancer treatment
Cancer treatment : Radiation therapy
Cancer treatment : Surgery
Central venous catheters
Central venous catheters : External catheter
Central venous catheters : Subcutaneous port
Central venous catheters : Temporary catheter
Cerebral palsy: An overview
Cervical cancer immunisation videos
Chemotherapy for childhood cancer
Chickenpox
Child abuse
Child abuse : What if I'm worried about a child?
Child abuse : When abuse has occured
Child abuse prevention : Shaken baby syndrome
Child protection (more information, resources, support)
Child protection : Family violence
Childhood cancer
Childhood cancer: Where to go for more information and support
Children and young people's rights in hospital
Children's cancer services in New Zealand
Children's pain - the facts
Children's painful procedures and operations - how can parents help?
Circumcision
Clinical trials
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in childhood cancer
Congenital hypothyroidism
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Constipation due to chemotherapy
Constipation in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Coping when your child has a diagnosis of a chronic illness or disability
Cough
Cough free - the way to be transcript
Cough free - the way to be video
CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure)
Croup
D
Daytime wetting
Depression
DHBs (District Health Boards)
Diabetes
Diabetes (brief)
Diabetes (detailed)
Diabetes : Emotional and mental wellbeing concerns
Diabetes : Growing up and diabetes management
Diabetes : Healthy eating & physical activity
Diabetes : School information
Diarrhoea in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Disabilities or chronic conditions - support
DMSA renal scan
Down syndrome : A parent's story (video)
Drinking and pregnancy
Drips (intravenous fluids or IV)
E
Ear infections (brief version)
Ear infections (detailed version)
Ear tubes
Ears and hearing
Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
Emergencies - dialling 111
Emotional and mental wellbeing : Anxiety
Emotional and mental wellbeing : Depression
Epidural analgesia
External catheter
Eyes and vision
F
Family violence
Fasting and consent for procedures
Fatigue due to chemotherapy
Febrile convulsions
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Fever
Finding a hospital
Flu (influenza)
Fracture (broken bone)
Full blood count to test for childhood cancer
G
Gabapentin
Gastroenteritis
Genetic and rare conditions
Glue ear (brief version)
Glue ear (detailed version)
Going home from hospital after your child's cancer treatment
Grommets (tympanostomy or ventilation tubes)
Growing up and diabetes management
H
Hair loss due to chemotherapy
Hand washing and hygiene
Head lice
Health and disability services : Principles: what health and disability services should provide for your child or young person
Health system : Finding a hospital
Health system and your rights
Healthline for advice
Hearing: Ears and hearing
Heart conditions
Heart conditions : Rheumatic fever
Heart conditions : Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
Helping your child manage their treatment
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
Hospital : Children and young people's rights in hospital
Hospital : Preparing for hospital (information for children)
Hospital : Preparing for hospital (information for parents / caregivers)
Hospital : Your child in hospital: Techniques to help with treatments
Hospital : Your child in hospital: The importance of play
How can I tell if my child is sick?
How to take a temperature
HSP (Henoch-Schonlein purpura)
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Immunisation : Cervical cancer immunisation videos
Impetigo (school sores)
Important contacts for your child with cancer
Infectious diseases
Influenza
Is my child sick?
IV fluids
J
Jaundice in babies
K
Kawasaki disease
Kidney biopsy
Kidney ultrasound
L
Language and speech : Stuttering / dysfluency
Laxatives
Long-term follow-up in childhood cancer
Loss of appetite & weight loss in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Loss of appetite due to chemotherapy
Low blood count due to chemotherapy
Low platelet count due to chemotherapy
Low red blood cell count due to chemotherapy
Low white cell count and infection
Low white cell count and infection (continued)
Lumbar puncture
Lumbar puncture to test for childhood cancer
Lungs : Pneumonia
Lungs and breathing
M
Management of pain in childhood cancer
Managing pain with anaesthesia
Managing treatment : Pain and managing treatment
MCU (micturating cysto-urethrogram)
Measles
Meningococcal disease
Morphine infusion
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Nappy rash
Nasogastric and gastrostomy feeding in childhood cancer
Nausea & vomiting in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy
Neutropenia - advice about food safety
Newborn metabolic screening: The heel prick test
Nightmares and night terrors
Nitrous oxide
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Nutrition and childhood cancer
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Obstructive sleep apnoea
Opioid Infusion
Opioids
Otitis media (brief version)
Otitis media (detailed version)
Otitis media with effusion (brief version)
Otitis media with effusion (detailed version)
P
Pain : Anaesthesia and pain management
Pain : Children's pain - the facts
Pain : Children's painful procedures and operations - how can parents help?
Pain : Epidural analgesia
Pain : Gabapentin
Pain : Helping your child manage their treatment
Pain : Nitrous oxide
Pain : Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Pain : Opioid infusion
Pain : Opioids
Pain : PCA (patient controlled analgesia)
Pain : Topiramate
Pain : Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Pain and childhood cancer
Pain and managing treatment
Pamol
Panadol
Paracetamol
PCA (patient controlled analgesia)
Perthes disease
Plaster care (your child's arm plaster)
Plaster care (your child's leg plaster)
Pneumonia
Polysomnography (sleep study)
Positional head-flattening in babies
Preparing for hospital (information for children)
Preparing for hospital (information for parents / caregivers)
Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Principles: what health and disability services should provide for your child or young person
PSGN (Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis)
Pyloric stenosis
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Radiation therapy for childhood cancer
Rare and genetic conditions
Renal (kidney) biopsy
Renal (kidney) ultrasound (ultrasonography)
Rheumatic fever
Rights : Children and young people's rights in hospital
Rights when receiving health care
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School and education when your child has cancer
Secretory otitis media (brief version)
Secretory otitis media (detailed version)
Serious skin infections
Shaken baby syndrome
Side effects of chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Constipation due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Fatigue due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Hair loss due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Loss of appetite due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Low blood count due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Low platelet count due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Low red blood cell count due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Low white cell count and infection
Side effects of chemotherapy : Low white cell count and infection (continued)
Side effects of chemotherapy : Nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Sore mouth due to chemotherapy
Side effects of chemotherapy : Sun sensitivity due to chemotherapy
Skin conditions
Skin conditions : Boils
Skin conditions : Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
Skin conditions : Head lice
Skin conditions : Impetigo (school sores)
Skin conditions : Serious skin infections
Skin conditions : Warts
Soiling (encopresis)
Sore mouth & throat in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Sore mouth due to chemotherapy
Sore throat
Speech and language : Stuttering / dysfluency
Stuttering / dysfluency
Subcutaneous port
Suggestions for successful parent / caregiver support before, during and after treatments
Sun sensitivity due to chemotherapy
Support for the family of a child with cancer
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
Surgery for childhood cancer
Sweat test
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Taste changes in childhood cancer - advice about nutrition
Telephone advice : Healthline
Temperature : Fever
Temperature : How to take it
Temporary catheter
Tests
Tests : DMSA renal scan
Tests : Lumbar puncture
Tests : MCU (micturating cysto-urethrogram)
Tests : Newborn metabolic screening (the heel prick test)
Tests : Polysomnography (sleep study)
Tests : Renal (kidney) biopsy
Tests : Renal (kidney) ultrasound (ultrasonography)
Tests : Sweat test
Tests : Urine tests
Tests for cancer
Tests for cancer : Biopsy to test for childhood cancer
Tests for cancer : Bone marrow aspiration to test for childhood cancer
Tests for cancer : Full blood count
Tests for cancer : Lumbar puncture to test for childhood cancer
Tests for cancer : Tests to find out how well organs are working
Tests for cancer : X-rays and scans to test for childhood cancer
Tests to find out how well organs are working
Toileting issues
Toileting issues : Bedwetting
Toileting issues : Constipation
Toileting issues : Daytime wetting
Toileting issues : Laxatives
Toileting issues : Soiling (encopresis)
Tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy
Topiramate
Treatment : Anaesthesia and pain management
Treatment : Children's painful procedures and operations - how can parents help?
Treatment : Circumcision
Treatment : CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure)
Treatment : Drips (intravenous fluids or IV)
Treatment : Epidural analgesia
Treatment : Gabapentin
Treatment : Grommets (tympanostomy or ventilation tubes)
Treatment : Helping your child manage their treatment
Treatment : Laxatives
Treatment : Nitrous oxide
Treatment : Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Treatment : Opioid infusion
Treatment : Opioids
Treatment : PCA (patient controlled analgesia)
Treatment : Plaster care (your child's arm plaster)
Treatment : Plaster care (your child's leg plaster)
Treatment : Preparing for hospital (information for children)
Treatment : Preparing for hospital (information for parents / caregivers)
Treatment : Tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy
Treatment : Topiramate
Treatment : Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Treatment : Vitamin K
Treatment of pain in childhood cancer
Treatments
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Tympanostomy tubes
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Urinary reflux / VUR (vesico-ureteric reflux)
Urinary tract infection (UTI)
Urine tests
UTI (urinary tract infection)
V
Ventilation tubes
Video for parents : A parent's story - having a son with Down syndrome
Video for parents : Cervical cancer immunisation
Video for parents : Cough free - the way to be
Video for parents : Cough free - the way to be transcript
Videos for parents : Whooping cough
Viral gastroenteritis (gastro)
Vision : Eyes and vision
Vitamin K
W
Warts
What health and disability services should provide for your child or young person
What if I'm worried about a child?
What is cancer?
When abuse has occurred
When your child is unwell or has a health issue
Whooping cough
Whooping cough - a baby's struggle video transcript
Whooping cough video transcript
Whooping cough videos
X
X-rays and scans to test for childhood cancer
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Your child in hospital: Techniques to help with treatments
Your child in hospital: The importance of play
Your rights when receiving health care
Breastfeeding
Child restraints (car seats)
Immunisation
What to do when your baby cries
Looking after your child's teeth
Foreskin care
Hearing and vision
Mobile phones and text bullying
Safe sleep essentials
Keeping safe and well A-Z
Keeping safe and well listing by category
Bedwetting
Cough
Sore throat
Fever
Ear infections
Constipation
How to take a temperature
Conditions, tests and treatments A-Z
Health issues A-Z
Health issues listing by category
Asthma
Coping when your child has a diagnosis of a chronic illness or disability
Cerebral palsy
Diabetes
Needs assessment
Long-term conditions A-Z
Long-term conditions listing by category
Financial help when your child has a disability or chronic condition
Financial help when you're having a baby / raising a family
Helping your child manage their treatment
Palliative care
Support for grieving children
Support groups A-Z
Support for parents and kids A-Z
Support for parents & kids listing by category