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Bo's Babies- saving babies hearts

Locality: Darwin, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 414 564 102

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24.01.2022 If anyone knows of parents of children that have been under the amazing care of Dr Bo Darwin's paediatric cardiologist please share our page with them.

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10.01.2022 Merry Christmas from our precious baby Breslin. Thankyou to Dr Bo and Dr Louise Woodward at darwin pediatrics for your amazing care. We are very lucky to hace you both in b darwin. Darwin pediatrics is located at the private hospital and i cant recommend them highly enough.

08.01.2022 Published on 14 Oct 2014 This is a health warning.... Right now, many of our children and young people in our community are getting rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. This sickness is serious. This sickness can damage our heart. Watch out for: 1. Painful joints (like ankle, knees, hip or elbow, wrist, shoulder) and 2. Fever (feeling cold and shivering but when you feel their forehead they feel very hot to touch). Bring these children and young people to the clinic so we can give them medicine to stop this sickness and to prevent heart damage. What causes rheumatic fever? Rheumatic fever starts with a sore throat and sometimes with sores on our skin. A germ called strep lives in the throat and on skin sores. When you see pus in skin sores, it means that strep germs are camping there. They have found a good camping place to grow and multiply. Or, if we have a sore throat, the same germ can live there. These strep germs get inside our children’s body and damage their heart. Medicine kill these strep germs and prevent heart damage. For people who already have rheumatic fever, they need Penicillin needle every 3 or 4 weeks. This medicine will stop them getting rheumatic fever again and prevents heart damage. The medicine only stays in our body for 3 weeks. It goes all around our body and protects us from the ‘strep’ germ. After 3 weeks, the medicine is used up/finished. Then we need to give another injection. People with rheumatic fever need Penicillin in their body all the time to kill any strep germs and prevent heart damage. Part of the Take Heart project http://www.takeheart.tv

08.01.2022 For sale now at Advanced Body Image Nightcliff. If anyone is interested in helping me sell the books id really appreciate it or if you have a business that can have them at a counter please let me know. loads of love Katy

07.01.2022 On sale soon, This gorgeous happy children's book 'How your heart got better' was written by Katy Sullivan, baby Breslin's mum while her baby was recovering from open heart surgery. Every dollar raised will be donated and spent saving lives of young heart patients in East Timor. If you are interested in selling this book, or having it in your place of business please let me know. This is totally not for profit, and a very special cause.

06.01.2022 Rheumatic Heart Disease Fact Sheet Introduction Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a disease of poverty caused by Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). Rheumatic Fever is an illness that predominantly affects children, with the highest rates occurring in the 5-14 year age group. Rheumatic fever causes RHD and is the most common cause of cardiac mortality in children and adults aged less than 40 years this often disabling disease can cause mortality. RHD is the most common cause of child...hood cardiovascular death and illness in the developing world. A minimum of 15 million people worldwide have the disease, resulting in 300,000 deaths each year. The cause is a Streptococcal A infection. RHD is difficult to detect in its early stages, however all children and adults who are suspected of having ARF should have an ultrasound of the heart, known as ‘echocardiography’. This test greatly enhances the chances of an accurate diagnosis. Accurate diagnosis continues to be a problematic for health clinicians, where over-diagnosis results in unnecessary treatment over a long time, while underdiagnosis leads to further attacks of ARF, cardiac damage and premature death. Diagnosis remains a clinical decision, as there is no specific laboratory test. The risk is increased with socio-economic disadvantage such overcrowding in housing, poor nutrition, poor household sanitation and wastewater management. RHD is preventable by improving living conditions and introducing effective measures of prevention and control. Often RHD is called the classic disease of social injustice. These primary infrastructure related programs can be addressed in parallel with the medical education, intervention, prevention, support and research programs. In Australia, this preventable disease has all but been eliminated in the non-Indigenous Australian population; however it persists within many rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

01.01.2022 Hello. Just thought I would share my beautiful little heart baby Alisha. Thanks to Dr Bo we will get to watch her grow up and live her life :)