September
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HHD Topics – Juvenile Arthritis – Asthma – Type 1 Diabetes
Juvenile Arthritis |
| Visit the Arthritis Foundation. |
| National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases – Find fast facts on Juvenile arthritis here. |
| Arthritis Australia – An excellent fact sheet. |
| Better Health Victoria – Information page. |
| Arthritis Foundation – Kids get arthritis too |
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| Watch this Canadian YouTube clip |
Type 1 Diabetes |
| Visit the Diabetes Australia (Victoria) page. Signs, symptoms, treatment and links to more information. |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia. A good introductory page with link to a Fact Sheet. |
| American Diabetes Assoc. Introduction to Type 1 Diabetes and pages on living with the disease, exercise and more. |
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| Watch this video on the Time site.Kris Freeman suffers from Type 1 Diabetes, and competed in the Olympics. |
Asthma |
| Better Health Channel – Asthma and young children: a very comprehensive page. Also includes useful links. |
| Asthma Australia – managing asthma and many useful links here. |
| Asthma Australia – Asthma in the under 5’s. What to know if your Dr tell’s you your child has asthma. |
| Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America – childhood asthma and allergy. |
| NHS (UK) – Asthma in children – includes an animation. |
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| NHS YouTube clip |
Food Allergies |
| Better Health Channel – Causes, symptoms and consequences. Laws and labelling and where to get help. |
| Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy (ASCIA0 – A common sense page that looks at causes, symptoms, treatments and myths. |
| Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia – Food allergy or intolerance? Find out the difference here. |
| Food Standards Australia & New Zealand – About food labelling and food allergies. |
| Nutrition Australia – This page concentrates on milk allergy / intolerance. |
| Allergen Bureau – a clinical explanation. If you want to know how a body becomes allergic visit this page. |