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Whole-Body Cooling

In the NICU, your baby may get a special kind of care, called whole body cooling (also called therapeutic hypothermia). This treatment lowers body temperature so the body slows down and uses less energy.

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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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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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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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Orthodontics: Wearing Dental Elastics

What to expect when you wear dental elastics. 

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Suctioning the Nose Human Powered Nasal Suction Tube

This Helping Hand™ is about human-powered nasal suction tubes. Here you'll see how and when to use this to suction your child's nose.

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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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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.

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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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