Healthcare Professionals
We liaise with both paediatric and adult units involved in the provision of adolescent and transitional services.
Resources
CLDF supplies resources free of charge to UK teams caring for hepatology patients. You can signpost families and young people to our information pages or they can contact CLDF directly. To assist you with signposting, CLDF is able to provide units with the following:
- CLDF Packs – contain key information for newly diagnosed families
- Medical leaflets
- Nutritional information
- Yellow Alert packs – raising awareness of the early signs of childhood liver disease
- Order Resources – Order your resources here
CLDF QR code poster – providing easy access to electronic copies of our leaflets
The CLDF Support team offer families a range of support, advice and information. While we are unable to visit clinics and wards we want to ensure that families know what we can offer to the whole family so have created this new leaflet along with a QR code poster that links families directly to our sign-up form. Please help us by displaying these to ensure that no family misses out on the support we provide.
Yellow Alert
Yellow Alert is Children’s Liver Disease Foundation’s awareness campaign, promoting the early identification of liver disease in infants and their referral. It is vital that liver disease in newborn babies is identified and treated as early as possible.
Know the early signs and symptoms of childhood liver disease
Prolonged jaundice (yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes) can be a sign of liver disease. It is defined as jaundice persisting beyond two weeks of age in a full-term baby and three weeks in a pre-term baby.
Persistently pale coloured stools may indicated liver disease. Healthy coloured stools can be described as ‘England mustard’ yellow in bottle fed babies and ‘daffodil’ yellow in breast fed babies.
A baby’s urine should be colourless. Urine which is anything other than colourless could be a possible sign of liver disease. Babies with prolonged jaundice or abnormally coloured stools and/or urine must urgently be referred for a special blood test called a split bilirubin blood test to rule out potentially life threatening liver disease.
Yellow Alert materials
Ensure you can spot the signs and symptoms of liver disease in a newborn baby:
- Download the Yellow Alert App
- Order a Yellow Alert pack with further information
You can also download the Yellow Alert pack resources here:
- CLDF Yellow Alert Prolonged Jaundice Protocol
- CLDF Yellow Alert Stool Chart
- CLDF Yellow Alert Jaundice in the Newborn Baby Poster
- CLDF Yellow Alert Jaundice in Newborn Baby
Please note: digital printing of the stool colour chart featured in the materials above will result in alterations to colour. You can download the Yellow Alert app to see the chart or order printed versions from CLDF.
NICE Neonatal Jaundice Clinical Guidelines
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) produce clinical guidelines which advise the NHS on how to care for and treat individuals with specific conditions or diseases.
It applies to those living in England and Wales.
This guideline provides guidance on the recognition, assessment and treatment of neonatal jaundice in babies from birth to 28 days. Visit the NICE website to download information and materials.
The information contained here has been drawn from NICE guidelines and a number of clinical references. Please contact us if you have any questions about the information here.
Yellow Alert App
The Yellow Alert app contains information designed to make it quick and simple to spot the early signs of liver disease in newborn babies.
It includes:
- Information regarding the signs of liver disease in newborns
- Tests and referrals for liver disease
- A stool chart allowing users to compare a newborn’s stool to a variety of healthy and suspect colours.
The app contains useful information for all healthcare professionals working with newborn babies and the parents of newborns, and health visitors are encouraged to download the app.
To download the latest version of Yellow Alert App click on the icons below:
CLDF will continue to develop and improve the Yellow Alert App to help those looking to spot signs and symptoms of childhood liver disease. Please check frequently for updates and amend your app update settings to reflect this. The Yellow Alert app has been endorsed by Public Health England and the Institute of Health Visiting.