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Diabetes

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Diabetes is the name used to describe a condition affecting your pancreas, an organ in your body.  Your pancreas makes insulin, a natural hormone that controls helps your body absorb glucose (or sugar) in your blood. Children and young people with Diabetes need some help to control their levels of insulin.  Type 1 Diabetes is the most common type in children and young people and usually means that your body is not producing enough insulin to keep you healthy.

If you, or your child, has Type 1 Diabetes, help and information is available on the Edinburgh Diabetes website Opens in new window , which explains all of the services available for children and young people to help them how to manage the condition, and a handbook answering many of the questions you might have about eating, drinking, staying active and managing your insulin.

If you need to speak with the Diabetes Team at the RHCYP, please call 0131 312 0460.

Critical Care Department

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Critical Care combines the Intensive Care and High Dependency wards for children and young people at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh. The purpose-built Critical Care unit will make sure we can deliver the best possible care to some of the most unwell children and young people and their families, with patients often sent from across Scotland.

Having a child admitted to hospital and in Critical Care can come as a shock. It can be an overwhelming experience and we understand that you might feel a roller-coaster of different emotions. All of our staff are here to help you, your child and your whole family. There is always a senior member of nursing staff in overall charge of the unit (known as the ‘Nurse in Charge’) if you would like to talk over any concerns or ask any questions. We will give you regular updates about your child and how they are doing.

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Critical Care is on Level 1 of the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People. Parents can visit at any time, along with grandparents. There is secure buzzer entry to get access onto the ward.

Our address:
Royal Hospital for Children and Young People
50 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4TG

Switchboard: 0131 536 1000
Critical Care Unit: 0131 312 1148
Neonatal Unit: 0131 312 1148

Your child’s bedside will also have a direct phone number for you to call from home, or from family accommodation and other places around the hospital.

Child Life & Health Deparment

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The Child Life and Health department works to foster and deliver internationally leading research and training into the causes, consequences and management of childhood-onset diseases as well as working to give children and young people the best start through healthy development.  Based on the 4th floor of the RHCYP in Edinburgh, Child Life and Health is a partnership between NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh and other agencies working in child health.

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Audiology Department

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Audiology doctor

The Paediatric Audiology team looks after and checks the hearing of babies, children and young people.

We are a group of experienced paediatric audiologists with specialist skills to understand and treat hearing problems.

What we do

  • Screen the hearing of every newborn baby in the Lothian area
  • Test the hearing of all children and young people
  • Help children and young people with hearing loss – maybe by giving them hearing aids
  • Help children and young people who may be sensitive to sound or hear noises in their ears

ABR Testing

ABR stands for Auditory Brainstem Response.  This type of test is a follow-up hearing assessment for babies up to around 3 months old.  It is safe and painless, and checks how a baby’s brain and hearing nerves respond to sounds.

Watch the ABR test BSL version.
More BSL video content is available in the tab below.

For an ABR test, your baby needs to be asleep.  It is helpful to arrive with your baby already awake, ready for a feed and a little sleepy.  This gives the best possible chance for the test to be completed.

Please do not bring any other children along to your appointment as this might make it harder for your baby to fall asleep.

Please bring at least one feed with you (e.g. a prepared bottle if you are not breastfeeding), a couple of spare nappes and whatever else your baby needs to feel relaxed.

Results from an ABR test are usually available immediately afterwards.

VRA Testing

VRA stands for Visual Reinforcement Audiometry and is a type of hearing assessment for babies and young children up to around two and a half years old.  It is safe and painless and our team of Audiologists will have plenty of toys and games to keep children interested.  For VRA testing, different sounds are played and the child is shown a moving toy when they turn towards the sound.  Different levels of sound and pitch are usually tested, as well as a wider assessment of your child’s ears and hearing.

Watch the VRA test BSL version.
More BSL video content is available in the tab below.

Children are welcome to bring a favourite toy or blanket to help them feel calm and relaxed.  For parts of the test, they will need to stay in a particular part of the testing room, to give the best possible chance for the test to be completed.  The whole appointment takes up to 45 minutes and results are usually discussed with each family immediately after the test has ended.

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Allergy Service

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The allergy service provides specialist allergy care for children and young people in Edinburgh and the Lothians who have an allergic disease, for example, food allergies, asthma, eczema and hay-fever. With our treatment and support, we aim to make life with an allergy easier for children, young people and their families.

Our allergy team consists of the professor of Child Life and Health and paediatric allergist, paediatric consultants with a special interest in allergy, two allergy nurse specialists and an allergy dietitian. We look after patients of all ages across the NHS Lothian region.

Contact NHS Lothian