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Calcium needs for children with cow’s milk allergy
Calcium: Top tips on how to include calcium foods
Cancer and education: Common questions kids ask about cancer
Cancer and education: Communicating with your child's school at diagnosis
Cancer and education: Education during your child's cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Education when your child first receives a cancer diagnosis
Cancer and education: How late effects can affect your child's learning and development
Cancer and education: How late effects can affect your student's learning
Cancer and education: Letter to inform school about your child's cancer diagnosis
Cancer and education: Letter to let other parents know about your student's cancer
Cancer and education: Missing school when your student has cancer
Cancer and education: Preparing your child to return to school or early learning
Cancer and education: Resources about cancer
Cancer and education: Special concerns for your young child with cancer
Cancer and education: Specialist support for schools to help a student with cancer
Cancer and education: Students with cancer - how brothers and sisters can be affected
Cancer and education: Supporting teenage students with cancer
Cancer and education: Supporting young children with cancer
Cancer and education: Supporting your child before, during and after cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your student at diagnosis
Cancer and education: Supporting your student during cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your student returning to school after cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your teenager with cancer
Cancer and education: The effect of your child's cancer on their siblings
Cancer and education: When your student’s cancer cannot be cured
Cancer and long-term follow up: An introduction
Cancer and long-term follow up: Female fertility after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Long-term follow-up and health after cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Male fertility after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Pregnancy and heart health after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Problems with your teeth after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Thinking and learning
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Your heart after childhood cancer
Cancer tests: X-rays and scans to test for cancer
Cancer tests: Biopsy to test for cancer
Cancer tests: Blood tests
Cancer tests: Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
Cancer tests: Lumbar puncture
Cancer tests: Medicines to help with pain during tests and procedures
Cancer tests: Reducing anxiety and distress during tests and procedures
Cancer tests: Tests and procedures to diagnose cancer
Cancer tests: Tests to find out how well organs are working
Cancer treament: Tube feeding in childhood cancer
Cancer treatment
Cancer treatment: Checklist before leaving hospital
Cancer treatment: Complementary and alternative medicine
Cancer treatment: Diarrhoea during cancer treatment
Cancer treatment: Fasting and consent for procedures
Cancer treatment: Going home from hospital after your child's treatment
Cancer treatment: Immunotherapy
Cancer treatment: Pain
Cancer treatment: Radiation therapy
Cancer treatment: Radiation therapy side effects
Cancer treatment: Surgery
Cancer treatment: Taste changes due to cancer treatment medicines
Cancer treatment: Techniques to help your child
Cancer: Childhood cancer overview
Cancer: Children's cancer services in New Zealand
Cancer: FAQ about caring for your child at home
Cancer: Important contacts for your child with cancer
Cancer: Measles and chickenpox in children with low resistance to infection
Cancer: More information and support
Cancer: Nutrition
Cancer: Opportunistic infections
Cancer: Quick help guide for parents of child cancer patients
Cancer: Support when your child has cancer
Cancer: What is cancer?
Cannula
Capsule Endoscopy
Captopril for heart failure
Car seats
Carbamazepine for preventing seizures
Carvedilol for heart failure
Cat bites: What to do about them in children
Catheters: Central venous catheters
Catheters: Semi-permanent external venous
Catheters: Temporary external venous
Cefalexin for bacterial infections
Cellulitis
Central venous catheters
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
Cerebral palsy classifications
Cerebral Palsy Youth Alliance videos
Cerebral Palsy: Listing of information, support and resources
Cerebral palsy: Stem cell treatments
Checklist for returning to school or early learning after cancer treatment
Chemotherapy drugs: Information for patients and families
Chemotherapy: Constipation
Chemotherapy: Fatigue
Chemotherapy: Hair loss
Chemotherapy: Loss of appetite
Chemotherapy: Low blood count
Chemotherapy: Low platelet count
Chemotherapy: Low red blood cell count
Chemotherapy: Low white cell count and infection
Chemotherapy: Nausea and vomiting
Chemotherapy: Side effects
Chemotherapy: Sore mouth
Chemotherapy: Sun sensitivity
Chickenpox
Chickenpox: Chickenpox and measles in children with low resistance to infection
Child abuse prevention
Child abuse: Directory for information and support
Child abuse: Never ever shake a baby
Child abuse: Worried about a child?
Child protection: Family violence
Childbirth, pregnancy and the first weeks
Childhood cancer: Clinical trials
Childhood illnesses: Keeping your home warm and dry
Choking: Checklist for preventing baby from choking
Choking: How to prevent it when your baby starts solids
Choking: What to do if your baby chokes
Chondromalacia patella - runner’s knee
Chronic conditions: Coping with a diagnosis
Circumcision
Clinical trials in childhood cancer
Clobazam for preventing seizures
Clonazepam for preventing seizures
Coeliac disease
Colds
Colonscopy
Common cold
Common vulval conditions
Communication and early literacy skills
Communication development: By 1 year
Communication development: By 18 months
Communication development: By 2 years
Communication development: By 3 years
Communication development: By 4 years
Communication development: By 5 years
Communication development: Concerned about your child's development?
Communication development: Referrals to the Ministry of Education
Communication: Speech sound development
Communication: Voice
Communication: What's involved?
Complementary and alternative medicine for children with cancer
Complementary medicine: General advice about complementary and alternative medicine
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Constipation: Lactulose for constipation
Constipation: Macrogol for constipation
Constipation: Senna for constipation
Constipation: Sodium picosulfate for constipation
Constipation: Treatment
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Cough free - the way to be video
Cough in children
COVID-19 - caring for a child with COVID-19
COVID-19 - masks and creating airflow helps
COVID-19 - masks and ventilation
COVID-19 - multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
COVID-19 - recovering from COVID
COVID-19 - to the kids of Aotearoa
COVID-19 and genome sequencing - an animation for tamariki
COVID-19 immunisation for children
COVID-19 immunisation for children and teens with diabetes
COVID-19 immunisation resource - for children who like a step by step explanation before their vaccine
COVID-19 immunisation: Supporting children and young people having the COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 positive and caring for a newborn
COVID-19 testing - rapid antigen tests (RATs)
COVID-19 vaccination - preparing your tamariki
COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy
COVID-19: Back to activity and sport after COVID-19
COVID-19: Breastfeeding
COVID-19: How to protect yourself and others
COVID-19: Immunisation and breastfeeding
COVID-19: Immunising children during COVID-19
COVID-19: Pregnancy
COVID-19: Supporting your child during nasal swab testing
COVID-19: Symptoms chart in 7 languages
COVID-19: Videos about COVID-19 immunisation for children
COVID-19: What you need to know
CPAP: Continuous positive airway pressure
CPR for emergencies with children and babies
Crohn's disease
Crohn's disease treatment
Croup
Croup animation (Samoan)
Croup animation (Tongan)
Croup | Te Mate Maremare Pēpi (Animation)
Crying: What to do
Cuts, scratches and grazes
Cystic Fibrosis: Sweat test
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