Medicines for Children

I've just stumbled across Medicines for Children for parents/carers to find information about medications prescribed to their child. I was looking up Prednisolone and found this leaflet to be both accurate and clear.

Medicines for Children's vision is 'that any parent, wherever they are, have information on their child’s medicines that they need and can trust'. The leaflets are written by healthcare professionals and checked by parents and carers.

A great idea and very worthwhile.

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Asthma UK post - Personal Asthma Action Plans

When ‘A’ has an asthma attack there’s a sick feeling I get in my stomach that threatens to fill me with blind panic. It doesn’t matter how many times we’ve dealt with the same symptoms, fearing for her safety and remembering how bad things can be is so debilitating, yet it’s at this stage that thinking clearly and getting her the right treatment is essential in preventing an emergency and finding ourselves back in A&E. When she was 18 months old (she's 7 now), A had a number of chest infections and as she came down with another I remember thinking that something wasn’t right. She was coughing constantly and began to sound wheezy. We gave her a couple of puffs of her blue inhaler and the wheezing settled, but later, things got much worse. She was hurling herself around her cot, her breathing sounded terrible and at that point we rushed her into A&E. I remember turning to look at her in the car and thinking that she looked grey. At the hospital it was clear something...

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'A is for Asthma'

I've come across a couple of great programmes lately which help children understand their asthma better and make them realise that they're not different or unusual for having to use their inhaler when needed. Get Well Soon 'Easy Wheezy' Get Well Soon is a lovely CBeebies show about all kinds of childhood illnesses and how their bodies are affected. The 'Easy Wheezy' episode isn't on on iPlayer at the moment, though the Easy Wheezy song is on YouTube . Dr Ranj Singh is a real-life paediatrician and his programmes really captivate 'A' and get her asking really good and useful questions about all manner of illnesses, including her asthma. Sesame Street 'A is for Asthma' The other one is the old favourite, Sesame Street. You've got to love Elmo and A is for Asthma is great. I love the angle the video clip takes, showing the child's friend what to do when he starts to get wheezy and as always the educational tone of ...

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