Haematology
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Dietary advice to help increase your zinc intake
Information about dietary advice which will help increase your zinc intake.
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How to recognise a possible brain bleed
Information aimed at helping people recognise signs that there may be bleeding inside the brain of a child.
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Hydroxycarbamide (also known as hydroxyurea) Use in sickle cell disease
You have been given this leaflet because your / your child’s haematology doctor thinks that starting a medicine called hydroxycarbamide will help reduce or prevent unpleasant complications of sickle cell disease.
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Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
ITP, Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, in childhood is usually an acute, uneventful, self-limiting disorder.
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Mild and Moderate Haemophilia and the Transition to Adult Services
This leaflet is for patients with mild and moderate Haemophilia
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Telephone clinic: For children and young people with sickle cell disease who are taking hydroxycarbamide
The children’s haematology team have developed a new, more efficient and safe way of prescribing hydroxycarbamide, and looking after children who are taking it.
You have been given this leaflet because your child is able to receive some of their sickle cell care in this new way. -
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Von Willebrand Disease and Transition to the Adult Services
This leaflet is for patients with von Willebrand disease who are aged 16 or over and who are ready to be transitioned to the Adult Haemophilia Team.
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von Willebrand's disease
This leaflet explains about Von Willebrand’s disease (vWd) is a condition that affects blood clotting.
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Your guide to Desmopressin
Information about being treated with Desmopressin, including side effect
