Fact sheets
Fact sheets on a range of health and safety topics have been developed in partnership by Sydney Children's Hospital, The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Hunter New England Kidshealth Network. They aim to help you learn about your child’s illness and ways you can help improve their overall health and wellbeing, Factsheets are for educational purposes only, please consult with your doctor or other health professional to make sure this information is right for your child.
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Translations
A range of fact sheets have been translated into a number of languages. Please visit our translations page to view the resources available in each language.
A
- Abdominal Organs Injuries (Spleen, Liver and Kidney)
- Abdominal Pain (Stomach Ache)
- Abusive Head Trauma (AHT)
- Achondroplasia - Positioning and handling of babies with Achondroplasia
- Adenoidectomy
- Allergy - Cow's milk allergy and milk free diet
- Allergy - Egg Allergy and egg free diet
- Allergy - EpiPen® Use
- Allergy - Food Allergies and Eczema
- Allergy - Fruit and vegetable allergy
- Allergy - Latex allergy
- Allergy - Peanut allergy and peanut free diet
- Allergy - Seafood allergy (includes fish and shellfish)
- Allergy - Sesame free diet
- Allergy - Soy allergy and soy free diet
- Allergy - Tree nut allergy and tree nut free diet
- Allergy and allergy tests
- Anaesthesia and day surgery
- Anaesthesia and risk in infants
- Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery
- Analgesia - Patient or nurse controlled
- Anorexia nervosa in children and young people
- Anterior knee pain in children and adolescents
- Anxiety
- Appendicitis
- Arterio-venous malformation (AVM) of the brain
- Asthma - Schools and child services action plan for asthma flare up
- Asthma and your child: A resource pack for parents and carers
- Asthma medication inhalation devices
- Asthma medicines
- Asthma- Daily asthma symptoms diary
- Asthma- Good asthma control checklist
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
B
- Back Care - Looking after your back - for parents and carers
- Bedwetting
- Biliary Atresia
- Bites and stings
- Blood tests - Venepuncture
- Blood transfusion
- Bowlegs and knock-knees
- Brain death
- Breast care for breastfeeding mothers after the death of a child
- Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding - Expressing, handling and storage of breast milk
- Breastfeeding... Is it for me?
- Breath holding spells
- Bronchiolitis
- Broomstick plaster
- Burn injuries: Care advice
- Button batteries
C
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for babies (less than 12 months of age)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for children (over 12 months of age)
- Care of the intravenous cannula at home
- Care of the Midline at home
- Care of the PICC at home
- Catheterisation and supra pubic urine aspiration
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Chickenpox
- Children’s painful procedures and operations
- Choosing my team
- Chronic illness
- Chronic neonatal lung disease
- Coeliac disease
- Colonoscopy
- Comforting your baby during painful procedures
- Common newborn concerns
- Concussion and mild head injury
- Congenital Talipes Equinovarus (Clubfoot)
- Connective tissue dysplasia
- Constipation
- Contrast enema
- Contrast swallow, contrast meal and follow through
- Conversations with child care and pre-school: for children with developmental delay or disability
- COVID-19 - Caring for low risk COVID-19 positive children
- COVID-19 - Recovering from COVID-19
- CPVT - Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
- Croup
- Crutches - information for safe crutch walking
- Crying Baby
- CT scan (computerised tomography)
- Cuffed Tunnelled Central Venous Catheter (CVC) - Central Line
- Curly Toes
- Cutaneous leishmaniasis
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
D
- Daytime wetting
- Dega osteotomy
- Depression in children: What parents should know
- Developmental delay
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)
- Disruptive behaviours in children: What parents should know
E
- E-cigarettes and Vaping
- Ear problems in children
- Ears - Can your child hear?
- Ears - Glue ear and grommets
- Ears - Hearing loss in children with Down syndrome
- Ears - Hearing loss in One Ear: Babies & PreSchool Children
- Ears - The Inheritance of hearing loss and deafness
- Ears - Unilateral (single sided) hearing loss: The school child
- Eczema
- Eczema: Wet Dressing
- Epidurals
- Evaluating health information on the Internet
- Eyes - Congenital cataracts
- Eyes - How to make an eye patch
- Eyes - Your baby’s eyes
- Eyes - Your child's visual rehabilitation after cataract surgery
F
- Femoral derotation osteotomy (FDO)
- Fever
- Fever - Febrile convulsions
- Flat feet
- Fontan - Getting a job with a Fontan circulation
- Fontan circulation - Driving with a Fontan circulation
- Fontan circulation - Getting insurance with a Fontan circulation
- Fontan circulation - Taking risks with a Fontan circulation
- Fontan circulation - Transitioning to Adult Health Services with a Fontan circulation - Checklist
- Fontan circulation - Transitioning to the adult health service with a Fontan circulation
- Fontan circulation and arrhythmia
- Fontan circulation and the liver
- Fontan circulation, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle
- Fontan circulation, sexual health and pregnancy
- Food - Baby's first foods
- Food - Fussy eating in toddlers
- Food - Healthy eating for toddlers
- Food - Healthy Snack Choices
- Food - High Energy Eating for Children
- Food - High Energy Eating for Infants 6-12 months
- Food - Vegetarian eating in children
- Food - Ways to boost iron intake for babies, toddlers and children
- Food intake record
- Food safety
- Fractures - bone healing
- Fundoplication
G
H
- Haemangiomas
- Headaches in children
- Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura (HSP)
- Hepatitis B virus infection in infants and children
- Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Children
- Hernia - Inguinal
- Hernia - Umbilical
- Hip abduction orthosis
- Hives (Urticaria)
- Home Oxygen Therapy
- House dust mite allergy- what should you do?
- Hydration and the active child: making sure your child has enough water
- Hydroceles
- Hypertonic Saline - How to use at home
- Hypospadias
I
- Immunisation
- Immunisation - information on the diseases covered
- Impetigo
- Indwelling Urinary Catheter
- Infant Formula
- Influenza
- Intellectual disability
- Intoeing in children (pigeon toes)
- Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)
- Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease
- IV - The facts about drips
J
K
L
- Language development – the early years
- Lateral column lengthening of the foot
- Lead
- Leech therapy
- Liver biopsy
- Long QT syndrome
- Lumbar puncture
M
- Malrotation and volvulus
- Mantoux skin test
- Medical play
- Medication compliance
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal infection
- Microtia
- Micturating Cysto Uretherogram (MCU)
- Micturating Cysto Uretherogram (MCU) - CHW
- Midline
- Migraine in children
- MRE Scan for Crohn's Disease
- MRI scan
- Multi-resistant organisms (MRO)
N
- Nappy rash
- Nightmares and night terrors
- Nitrous oxide
- Non Tunnelled Central Venous Catheter
- Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan
- Nuclear Medicine DMSA Scan
O
- OA/TOF: Eating and drinking considerations for OA/TOF children: 1 year and older
- OA/TOF: Extra nutrition support for OA/TOF children: 6 months and older
- OA/TOF: Oesophageal atresia and/or tracheo-oesophageal fistula
- Obesity - A healthy lifestyle for a healthy weight
- Obesity - For my adolescent with a weight problem: Where to from here?
- Obesity - For my child with a weight problem: Where to from here?
- Obesity - How do I know if my child has a weight problem
- Obesity - How to get kids to be more active
- Obesity - How to talk to your child about their weight: a guide for parents and carers
- Obesity - Losing weight: why the whole family needs to be involved
- Obesity - Preventing Holiday Weight Gain - Managing the School Holiday Period
- Obesity - Weight management tip: Improve your child’s sleep
- Obesity - Weight management tips for parents and carers
- Obesity - Weight management tips for parents and carers: Helping your adolescent to lose weight
- Opioid (pain reliever) infusion
- Oral health and medications for children with a heart condition
- Oral health for children with a heart condition
- Organ donation
- Otitis media with effusion (Middle Ear Infection)
P
- Paediatric palliative care: factsheet for families
- Pain - the facts
- Parenteral nutrition
- Passive smoking
- Patent ductus arteriosus in the premature infant
- Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs)
- Perthes' disease
- Physiotherapy for children after heart surgery
- Plaster cast or backslab care instructions for patients and their carers
- Pneumococcal disease, immunisation and your family
- Pneumonia
- Poisonous or harmful plants
- Poisons
- Port - Implantable Venous Access Device
- Positional plagiocephaly
- Post cardiac surgery discharge information - CHW
- Pressure injuries
R
- Radiation... and its uses in Hospitals for Diagnostic Testing
- Reflux
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
S
- Scoliosis
- Screen time and children
- Sedation - Procedural sedation
- Seizures and Epilepsy
- Signs of serious illness in children
- Slapped cheek disease or Fifth disease (Parvovirus)
- Sleep - Bi-Level Ventilation
- Sleep - CPAP care and maintenance of equipment
- Sleep - CPAP Ventilation
- Sleep - Humidification for CPAP and Bi-Level Machines
- Sleep - Normal sleep patterns 0 - 16 years
- Sleep - Respiratory Support Service (RSS): Equipment Hire
- Sleep screen (trolley) study
- Sleep study
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
- Small high powered magnets
- Sore throat
- Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Adolescents and adults with Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Antenatal Consultation in Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Be active adolescents and adults
- Spina Bifida - Be active kids with Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Bladder Management and Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Care of a newborn baby with Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Dealing with Anxiety, Grief and Loss
- Spina Bifida - Equipment needs
- Spina Bifida - Foot care
- Spina Bifida - Healthy Lifestyle for Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Hospital admissions
- Spina Bifida - Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Introduction to bowel management and Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Lipomas and Lipomyelomeningoceles
- Spina Bifida - Living well with Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Lower limb paralysis and Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Making decisions about treatments in Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Pressure relief technique (weight shifts) and Spina Bifida
- Spina Bifida - Protecting your skin
- Spina Bifida - Relationships and Sexuality
- Spina Bifida - Role of the treating team: Occupational Therapy
- Spina Bifida - Role of the treating team: Physiotherapy
- Spina Bifida - Role of the treating team: Social Work
- Spina Bifida - Spinal Cord Surgeries and Complications
- Spina Bifida - Transition to School
- Spinal Cord Injury - Be active Adolescents with Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Be active Kids with Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Bladder Management
- Spinal Cord Injury - Bowel management and Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Dealing with Anxiety, Grief and Loss
- Spinal Cord Injury - Foot Care and Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Healthy Lifestyle
- Spinal Cord Injury - Hospital admissions and Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Making decisions about treatments in Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Pressure relief technique and Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Reintegration to school after spinal cord injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Relationships, Sexuality, Fertility and Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury - Starting school and spinal cord injury
- Split Tibialis Anterior Tendon Transfer (SPLATT)
- Stuttering
- Surgery - How do I prepare my child for planned surgery
- Swaddling - how this affects baby hips
- Sweat test
T
- Teeth - Caring for your child's teeth
- Teeth - Tooth development
- Teeth - What to do if a child knocks out their adult front tooth
- Tethered cord syndrome
- Tetralogy of Fallot Spells
- The inherited arrythmia clinic
- Tissue donation
- Tonsillectomy
- Transition - Financial issues
- Transition - GPs
- Transition - Growing Up and Moving On: Transition Planning Information
- Transition - Is your teen ready?
- Travelling with respiratory support equipment
- Trichotillomania
- Trigger thumb
- Tube feeding - Caring for your child’s Nasogastric tube
- Tube feeding - Common problems with your child’s gastrostomy button
- Tube feeding - Common tolerance problems your child may experience while tube feeding
- Tube feeding - Gastrostomy
- Tube feeding - Looking after your child’s feeding equipment
- Tube feeding - The importance of a clean mouth
- Tube feeding - Trans-gastric Jejunal feeding device
- Tube feeding - Transitioning from tube to oral feeding
- Tube feeding - What is tube feeding?
- Tube feeding - Your child's new gastrostomy button
- Tube feeding - Your child’s tube feeding formula
- Tuberculosis (TB)
U
- Uncuffed tunnelled central venous catheter
- Undescended testes
- Upper endoscopy
- Urinary tract infection in children