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Patient Information Leaflets
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Breastfeeding: Advice on how to overcome challenges
Support and advice on how to overcome challenges you may face when breastfeeding your baby.
Read moreBreath stacking with or without a lung volume recruitment bag
Explains the breathing technique of ‘breath stacking’ to help with breathing and coughing for people with neuromuscular conditions and chest deformities
Read moreBreathing and blowing games for children
Exercises for children who have been advised to do chest physiotherapy as a treatment for their chest condition
Read moreBreech baby information leaflet (RCOG)
This patient information page provides advice if your baby is breech towards the end of pregnancy and the options available to you. Link takes you to RCOG website.
Read moreBroken bones in children
Aims to answer some of the most frequently asked questions when a child has a broken a bone – also called fractures
Read moreBroken bones in children: A short guide for parents
Aims to answer some of the questions that you or your child may have about managing a broken bone, once you have left hospital
Read moreBromocriptine
For patients prescribed the prolactin-blocking medication called Bromocriptine for prolactinoma (tumour in the pituitary gland)
Read moreBronchiolitis in children
Explains what the condition is, how the infection is treated and gives you some helpful suggestions to aid your child’s recovery at home
Read moreBronchoscopy
An examination looking into your lungs using a slim tube with a camera known as a bronchoscope, to visualise your trachea (windpipe) and main airways
Read moreBronchoscopy aftercare advice
Advice following a bronchoscopy (an examination of your airways using a flexible tube)
Read moreBruising in immobile children: What's going on?
You have been given this leaflet because you or someone who supports you or your child has come across a bruise on your child. Any professional who comes across bruising in a child who is not able to move under their own steam (non- independently mobile or immobile) are required to refer the child to a specialist child doctor (Paediatrician). This leaflet explains the process which is followed.
Read moreBubble Positive Expiratory Pressure (PEP) for children
For parents/carers of children who have been advised to use bubble PEP as a treatment for their chest condition - used in children as a treatment to help clear a build-up of phlegm (secretions) in their lungs
Read moreBuckle fracture of the radius discharge advice
Advice on managing a buckle fracture of the forearm bone, including removal of the splint at home
Read moreBuddy strapping discharge advice
Advice for those advised to buddy strap fingers following a finger or hand fracture
Read moreBulbar mucosal graft urethroplasty aftercare
Aftercare advice following an operation to repair a stricture (narrowing) in the urethra (water pipe) in men
Read moreBurial on private land
This information outlines what happens when you want to bury your baby’s remains and/or pregnancy tissue on a piece of land other than a recognised cemetery or churchyard.
Read moreBurning mouth syndrome
Explains treatments to help reduce and manage the severity of your symptoms
Read moreBuscot: Bereavement support
This leaflet will explain what happens next and where to get help and support in the coming weeks and months.
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