Resources
Things worth
having before
you need them.
Written for the parent in the waiting room, the teacher who has just been handed a hypo box, and the fifteen-year-old who would rather read it themselves than be told.
Things worth having before you need them.
Guides, checklists and one-page templates you can print, sign and hand to a school or a lab.
- Guide
The growth chart, explained
What a percentile actually means, why crossing lines matters more than the number itself, and when to seek review.
- Checklist
Preparing for a hormone test
Fasting rules, timing, what to bring, and how to keep a child comfortable through a long morning at the lab.
- Template
Type 1 diabetes: the school plan
A one-page plan for teachers covering hypoglycaemia, sports, exams and who to call. Print it, sign it, send it.
- Guide
Puberty: what is normal, and when
The usual sequence and age range for girls and boys, and the specific signs that deserve an endocrine opinion.
- Guide
Vitamin D and bone health
Who genuinely needs supplementation in an Indian context, at what dose, and why more is not better.
- Checklist
Questions worth asking
Twelve questions that make any endocrine consultation, with this clinic or another, more useful for your family.
Now, soon, or at the next visit.
The most useful thing a clinic can give a family is a clear sense of urgency. Print this and put it on the fridge.
Go to an emergency department now
- Drowsiness, confusion or difficulty waking a child
- Rapid, deep breathing with vomiting in a child with diabetes
- A seizure, or a low blood sugar you cannot correct
- Severe dehydration, or a child who cannot keep fluids down
- Sudden severe headache with vomiting and visual change
Call the clinic within a day or two
- Blood sugars persistently high or low over several days
- A new lump in the neck, or difficulty swallowing
- Pubertal signs in a girl under 8 or a boy under 9
- A child on hydrocortisone who is unwell or vomiting
- Medicine finished, lost, or vomited repeatedly
Raise it at the next appointment
- Height that seems to have stalled over several months
- A new symptom that is stable and not distressing
- Questions about school, sport, exams or travel
- Anything you meant to ask last time and forgot
Please read
This website is for information, not diagnosis. If your child is drowsy, breathing rapidly, vomiting persistently, having a seizure or has a blood sugar you cannot correct, go to the nearest emergency department now.
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