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RoSPA advice checklist on keeping children away from cleaning products, medications, and other items that can accidentally poison your child.
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RoSPA advice on keeping children away from cleaning products, medications, and other items that can accidentally poison your child.
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Why does my child need Orlistat? Eating a healthy diet that is low in calories (energy), and staying active is the best way to lose weight. Orlistat is a medication that can help someone lose more weight than if they follow healthy eating and activity advice alone. It is still important to follow...
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Medicine for Children resource for clonidine for treating Tourette’s syndrome, ADHD and sleep onset disorder.
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Medicine for Children resource about using Lamotrigine medicine for preventing seizures.
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Citalopram is a type of antidepressant known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
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What is an epidural? An epidural is an extremely effective method of giving pain relief after surgery. A very fine tube called a catheter is placed into an area called the epidural space which sits within the spine and surrounds spinal cord. A local anaesthetic numbing type drug called...
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What is omalizumab used for? Omalizumab can be used for when urticaria will not go away. Chronic urticaria is itchy hives or a nettle-sting like rash that lasts 6 weeks or more. There is no known cause. Treatments for this include antihistamines (such as cetirizine, loratadine, fexofenadine) and,...
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What is fluoxetine? Fluoxetine is pronounced ‘flew-ox-e-teen’. Fluoxetine (also called Prozac®) is mainly used to help treat the symptoms of depression (by reducing the time it takes to recover), anxiety, and OCD. It can also help social anxiety, PTSD, panic, PMS and seasonal affective...
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What is risperidone? Risperidone is pronounced ‘ris-perry-doan’. Risperidone (also called Risperdal®) is mainly used to help treat the symptoms of the symptoms of psychosis, schizophrenia and mania, and to prevent these symptoms coming back. It can also help symptoms of ADHD, bipolar...
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What is olanzapine? Olanzapline is pronounced ‘o-lanz-a-pean’. Olanzapine (also called Zyprexa®) is mainly used to help treat the symptoms psychosis, schizophrenia and mania, and to prevent these symptoms coming back. It is sometimes used to help the symptoms of anxiety, depression and...
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What is melatonin? Melatonin is pronounced ‘mellow-toe-ninn’. Melatonin is a natural chemical found in the brain. Melatonin medications include Circadin®, Bio-Melatonin® and Slenyto®. It can be available as tablets, and can also be made as capsules and liquid. What does melatonin...
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What is quetiapine? Quetiapine is pronounced ‘quet-ire-pean’. Quetiapine (also called Seroquel®, Atrolak XL®, Ebesque XL®, Tenprolide XL® and others) is mainly used to help treat the symptoms psychosis, schizophrenia and mania, and bipolar depression, and to prevent these symptoms...
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A Medicine for Children resource about desmopressin for bedwetting.
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A resource from Medicine for Children about Oxybutnin for daytime urinary symptoms.
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A resource from Medicine for Children about how to give your child granules and powder.
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Your child may have been prescribed macrogol for their constipation. Macrogol laxatives may be sold under a few different brand names such as Movicol, CosmoCol or Laxido. How do I give my child macrogol? Sachets are packed in pairs. Tear down the perforation, and pour 1 sachet into a cup. Pour in...
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This video will assist you with tackling childhood constipation and soiling with a Macrogol Laxative (note that all information on macrogol doses refers to the paediatric preparations of macrogol).
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A resource by Crohn’s and Colitis UK about infliximab.
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A resource by Crohn’s and Colitis UK about biologic medicines.
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A resource by Crohn’s and Colitis UK about vedolizumab.
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A resource by Crohn’s and Colitis UK about adalimumab.
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A resource by Crohn’s and Colitis UK about ustekinumab.
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