Spina Bifida Information

Below are a number of useful and informative information leaflets on the subject of Spina Bifida. All Pages are available in a printable PDF format for your convenience. Just click on the Information leaflet you wish to view.

• What is Spina Bifida?
• Anencephaly - Information for parents after diagnosis
• Continence Issues for Adults with Spina Bifida
• Continence Management
• Continence and You
• How to Avoid Pressure Sores
• Sex and Spina Bifida - A leaflet for men
• Sex and Spina Bifida - A leaflet for women
• Vaccinations and Spina Bifida
• Spina Bifida Occulta

Other Resources

A new set of continence information sheets sponsored by Coloplast will be available during Spring 2008.

• Continence and You
• Continence Issues for Adults with Spina Bifida
• Adaptations for Toileting
• Antegrade Continence Enema
• Artificial Sphincters
• Bladder Augmentation
• Colostomy, Ileostomy and Urostomy
• Toilet Training and Hydrocephalus
• Toilet Training and Spina Bifida
• Clean Intermittent Self-Catheterisation
• Dietary Advice
• Tests and Procedures used to check function of the urinary system
• The Mitrofanoff Procedure
• Continence Issues for Adults with Spina Bifida