Essex child health app
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NHS Essex child health app
Many illnesses can now be treated at home with lots of rest and over the counter medicines. The NHS Essex child health app offers handy advice on some of these most common childhood illnesses, as well as helping you to understand when it’s better to chat to your school nurse, visit a local community pharmacist or GP, or to call NHS 111.
Health conditions covered within the app include:
- Coughs, colds and flu
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Chicken pox and measles
- Ear ache and tonsillitis
- Wheezing and breathing difficulties including bronchiolitis and asthma
- Headlice and threadworms
- Bumps, bruises and accidents
Information on mental health and wellbeing, healthy lifestyles and advice on some more serious conditions like meningitis and sepsis are also covered. And there’s a handy section on when you might want to consider keeping your child home from school.
The app is free to download for both Android and Apple. Just search for “NHS Essex child health”.
Your home health kit essentials and medicine cabinet
What to include:
- Thermometer- to check temperatures
- Child’s paracetamol- for headaches and temperatures
- Antiseptic cream- to keep germs out of cuts
- Plasters- to protect cuts and scratches
- Olive oil- to use as ear drops for earache
- Antihistamines- for hay fever, allergies and insect bites
As well as your home health kit essentials, having a well stocked medicine cabinet at home will help you treat common children’s illnesses.
Community pharmacist, Mary Oaiya talks about what medicine everyone should have at home to help tackle common childhood health problems.
Services for adults and young people with learning disabilities
Community Learning Disability Teams
Community Learning Disability Service provides specialist healthcare services for people with learning disabilities who are 18 years and over.
The Community Learning Disability Service is multidisciplinary and services include:
- Behaviour therapy
- Medical outpatients
- Nursing
- Occupational therapy (not available in Thurrock)
- Physiotherapy (not available in Thurrock)
- Psychology
- Speech and language therapy
Speech and Language Therapy
The speech and language therapy service provides high quality, professional service to people with learning disabilities who may also have communication and/or difficulty with eating or drinking. This is provided in a variety of ways:
- Assessment
- Differential diagnosis
- Treatment where appropriate
- Advice
- Training and education for all staff involved with the client group
The Children’s Learning Disability Service
The Children’s Learning Disability Service is a multi-professional healthcare team who assess and treat children with moderate to severe learning disabilities who exhibit difficult to manage behaviours.
The team includes registered LD Nurses and Sensory Integration trained Occupational Therapists, alongside support staff.
The aim of the service is to identify the function to a child’s difficult to manage behaviour, including any sensory processing problems impacting on their behaviour, and use this to inform a Behaviour Management Plan to help modify the behaviour and improve the child’s overall wellbeing and level of functioning.
For more information visit Children and adolescents learning disability service.
Support for Learning people with learning disabilities
Essex Cares Limited provides services across Essex to support adults with learning disabilities and autism.
This service helps people to participate in meaningful activities within their local communities, they are encouraged to learn new skills, gain independence and benefit from having access to a highly skilled in-house clinical team who offer a range of therapies including:
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Positive Behavioural Support
For more information contact ECL Essex carers limited.
For information about services to support children with learning disabilities and autism (and their carers) in southend please visit LiveWell Southend.
SNAP (Special Needs And Parents)
SNAP (Special Needs And Parents) is a local charity for families living within Essex with children and young people aged 0 to 25 who have any special need or disability.
SNAP’s aims are to inform, encourage and support parents, allowing them to grow in strength and knowledge so they are better equipped to give the best possible help to their children.
SNAP’s services include advice and information, a specialist library, specialist talks and events, training courses, parent and pre-school children groups, activities for children and young people, multi-sensory room, specialist IT suite, music therapy, sibling support, family counselling, online information network and directory of useful contacts.
No formal diagnosis or professional referral is necessary to access SNAP services.
Contact information
Phone
01277 211300
Website
www.snapcharity.org
Email
info@snapcharity.org
Kids inspire
Kids Inspire supports CYP recovering from traumatic experiences or dealing with emerging mental health difficulties. For ages 5-18 or up to 25 if they have an Education, Health and Care plan in place.
Qualified, experienced therapists have been trained in a broad range of therapies and work creatively to encourage body and mind reconnection. The focus is on the strengths of the child, their uniqueness, family and other relationships.
Contact details
Phone
01245 348707
Email
clinicaladmin@kidsinspire.org.uk
Specialist Counselling Services for Children & Young People
Specialist early intervention service for CYP with emerging mental health issues. Help for: low level depression, anxiety, low mood, worries and concerns about Covid-19. Call 01245 348 707 to discuss referral.