"Hands up if you have become forgetful since becoming a parent? Gosh, haven’t we all — my hand would be the first to shoot up in the air, if only I could remember the question you asked me… If you’re anything like me, then this tracker will be the solution to all of your problems. The 2021 Sick Happens Health Tracker is a simple, easy-to-use and practical tool to keep all of your child’s symptoms and important health information all together. It slips right into your child’s health book that you need to take to all of their healthcare appointments." - Penny, Sick Happens

Specifications

Size: A5 in size (148mm X 210mm)
Cover: Navy paper back
Includes: Tote and 'Symptom Checklist' bookmark and 'Medicine Tracker Magent'

Why do you need this tracker?

Well, how many times have you been to an appointment, for the healthcare professional to ask…

• “how long has this been going on for?”
• “when did the symptoms first start?”
• “what foods have you introduced to your little one so far?”
• “how much fluid have they managed to drink since they started vomiting”
• “what medications have they had?”

…only for you to forget all the important details and then you have to re-book another appointment after everyone decides to wait and “see how they go.”

Sound familiar?

By tracking your child’s symptoms in one handy planner, you can take this with you to any appointment they may have without forgetting anything.

It gives all of your child’s different health professionals the information they need to help get you the answers you have been waiting for. It will be so handy for their Doctors, their Emergency Department staff, their specialists, their dietitian’s, their physio’s, their Child & Family Heath Nurses — any health professional that is involved in the care of your little one.

It allows your healthcare professionals the opportunity to track symptoms over time, in order to come up with a diagnosis or create a treatment plan specific to your child without the LONG waits.

So what can you track in here?

• Fevers
• Childcare sicknesses like coughs and snotty noses.
• Vomiting bugs and how much fluid they are managing to keep down
• Asthma flare ups and how much they are needing to use their puffers
• Medications (both long term and short term)
• Skin conditions like rashes, allergic rashes and eczema
• Hayfever symptoms like watery eyes, sniffly noses and coughs
• Breastfeeds and formula volumes
• Poo: colour, frequency, consistency
• Allergic reactions
• Hospital trips for accidents, injuries & medical conditions

Anything and everything can be tracked in here and it will give you OBJECTIVE answers rather than having to reply on your memory or what you think happened.

You can track all of the random symptoms that your child gets and you cannot pin point what is causing them — take this tracker with you to all of their appointments to help everyone get on the same page in working out what is happening with your little one.

To make life even easier, there is also a Health Section at the back.

This health section includes:

• A Mini Fact Sheet on how to introduce allergenic foods safely
• An Allergenic Food Tracker
• A Mini Fact Sheet on Dehydration with tips on prevention
• Multiple Hydration Trackers
• Suggested Questions to ask your GP (a perfect go-to when you’re in the waiting room)
• A list of important Parenting Helplines for when you are stuck or feeling overwhelmed
• PLUS… you get a bonus bookmark that has a Sick Child Symptom Checklist for easy reference!

As a health professional myself, I would be stoked if a parent came into hospital with one of these. It would help us SOOOO much in understanding their health history and the timeline of their illness so that we can get straight onto working out a plan to get your little one better. Win. Win.