A-Z of Children's Health Information

A

• 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)
• Allergy
• Anaesthesia and pain management
• Anxiety
• Appendicitis
• ASD (autism spectrum disorder)
• Asthma

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 and blood stem cell transplantation in childhood cancer
• Bone marrow aspiration to test for childhood cancer
• Bones : Fracture (broken bone)
• Breastfeeding
• 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 and 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
• 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 (video)
• Cough free - the way to be transcript
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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)

I

• 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

N

• 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

O

• 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
• Pandemic flu (swine flu)
• 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)
• Principles: what health and disability services should provide for your child or young person
• PSGN (Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis)
• Pyloric stenosis

R

• 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

S

• 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

T

• 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

U

• Urinary reflux / VUR (vesico-ureteric reflux)
• 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 : Cough free - the way to be
• Video for parents : Cough free - the way to be transcript
• Video for parents : Whooping cough - a baby's struggle
• 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)

X

• X-rays and scans to test for childhood cancer

Y

• Your child in hospital: Techniques to help with treatments
• Your child in hospital: The importance of play
• Your rights when receiving health care