Self-Help: Child Health

Please see patient leaflets for managing common childhood illnesses, produced by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital. These guides have been produced to help parents and carers of children to care for children at home, know when to call the GP and when to contact the emergency services. If you are worried about a child you must call the surgery, 111 or 999 in an emergency.

• Abdominal Pain information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2240.pdf&ver=3034

• Asthma wheeze information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2239.pdf&ver=3033

• Bronchiolitis information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2244.pdf&ver=3038

• Croup information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2243.pdf&ver=3037

• Fever information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2242.pdf&ver=3036

• Gastroenteritis information for parents https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2241.pdf&ver=3035

• Guide for parents and carers of children from 0 – 5 https://bwc.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n2987.pdf&ver=4409