Department of Pediatric Care
What is Pediatric Care?
Pediatric Care Department specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital diseases, Pediatricians who manage the department diagnise and treat infectious diseases and chronic medical conditions that occur during childhood. Pediatricians address your child health issues and can understand different illnesses and conditions affecting a child’s health, general wellness and intellectual ability.
How Pediatrician Can Help Your Child's Health
1. Child Health Assessment :
Pediatric care starts right at the infant stage of your child. The parents are provided with the Vaccination chart that has to be observed and administered as per the age for immunizations from life-threatening infections. They also provide developmental growth chart and milestones to be achieved by your child at every stage of his/her childhood. This would help every parent to identify the child’s growth and development, to address any sort of underlying health condition and to prevent any health issues in the later part of a child’s life.
2. Chronic Illness :
In some children, an underlying health condition which is not treated in the initial stage may affect their normal health as they grow. Chronic health conditions and congenital health conditions should be treated during the childhood under the supervision of specialists. Certain mental health conditions like ADHD when identified and treated at the right time during Child's growth would definitely help the child enjoy his lifestyle like any other child. Henceforth; parents have to understand the importance of their child’s wellbeing right from the time their baby is born.
3. Child’s Food habbits and Physical Wellness :
Pediatricians advise you with the best child nutrition, diet that help your child meet his nutritional requirements and achieve growth and development for that age group. If the parents plan to include all the nutrient foods in child's diet without skipping Vaccinations, then a better improvement of your child's health, both physical and mental health can be seen as the child grows.
Available Tests
- Allergen skin testing
- Auditory testing
- Colonoscopy
- CT scan (computed tomography)
- EEG
- EMG
- Epilepsy monitoring
- MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
- Pap smear
- Pelvic exam
- Psychiatric or psychological assessment
- Ultrasound
- X-ray