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Coping with Medicines

Children or teens may need medicine to manage their disease. Some medicines may have side effects, like unwanted changes in their mood or how they look. 

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Dental: Oral Sedation

Sedation can help your child feel less anxious, nervous or afraid, be more comfortable and stay still during the procedure.

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Tips and Suggestions for Taking Asthma Medicine

Here are some expert tips to help encourage and improve your child's experience when taking asthma medicine.

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Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) with Sedation or Anesthesia

This Helping Hand™ explains the process of an auditory brainstem response (ABR) with light sedation or anesthesia. 

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Birth Control: Progestin-Only Contraceptive Pills

Progestin-only contraceptive pills are a form of daily birth control that contains the hormone progestin. This method does not contain estrogen. Progestin is much like a hormone made naturally in your body.

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Transtelephonic Monitor - Post Event

A Transtelephonic 30-day post event monitor records irregular heart beats that last a little longer than a few seconds. The recordings are then sent to a monitoring company over a land line telephone to be reviewed by your child’s doctor.

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Tracheostomy: What It Is and When It Is Needed

Learn what a trachestomy is and what it is used for. 

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Splenectomy

This Helping Hand™ talks about what a splenectomy is, why your child may need one, and how to care for a patient who has had one.

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Medical Glossary

Learn more about the terms you will hear at the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition.

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Spinal Tap

A spinal tap or lumbar puncture may be done to remove a small amount of spinal fluid for examination, to give medicine into the spinal canal or to measure the pressure in the spinal canal.

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