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Child Care and Illness: Should Your Child Stay Home?
Sometimes it is hard to decide if your child is too ill to go to childcare. Usually, children should stay home if illness keeps them from enjoying the daily activities of childcare.
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Exercises: Arms and Hands (Passive)
Range of motion exercises keep your child's joints and muscles loose and easy to move. Your child should lie on his or her back on a firm surface while doing the exercises. You should be on the same side of his body as the arm you are working with. Motions should be smooth, not bouncy.
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Catheterization - Self-Clean Intermittent - Male
Clean intermittent catheterization is done by passing a tube through the urethra into the bladder. Catheterization empties urine from the bladder.
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Exercises: Lower Extremities - Older Child (Passive)
Range of motion exercises help to keep your child's joints and muscles from tightening up. An exercise program is planned for the individual needs of each child. While doing the exercises, your child should lie on his back on a firm surface.
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IV Central Line Preventing Bloodstream infections
Learn more about a special type of IV to receive medicines or nutrition.
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Yoga for Period Pain
This Helping Hand™ explains how yoga can help with period pain and instructions for common yoga poses.
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Diazepam Rectal Gel (Diastat)®
Your child’s healthcare provider or doctor has recommended Diastat® to help control some of your child’s seizures (Picture 1). It can be given by parents or other caregivers who know the child’s seizure patterns.
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HIV Prevention
This Helping Hand™ is about how human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system, how it spreads, and how to prevent it.
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Secondhand Smoke and Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
This Helping Hand™ explains why secondhand smoke is dangerous for children with cystic fibrosis and how to keep them safe.
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Catheterization Record: Intermittent
Your doctors and nurses will help you set up your catheterization schedule. Please bring the record with you to your next clinic visit.