The HANDi Paediatric app aims to provide advice and support to parents and carers of children up to eleven years of age when their child is unwell and parents and carers in Worcestershire are being encouraged to download the free HANDi Paediatric app to support them in caring for their children.
The app contains information about when and how to ask for help thereby giving parents more confidence in dealing with minor childhood health care conditions.
The HANDi app offers simple and straightforward advice for the following conditions in children:
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- High temperature
- ‘chesty baby’ illnesses, such as bronchiolitis, asthma and croup
- ‘chesty child’ illnesses such as wheezing and asthma
- Abdominal pain
- Common newborn problems
