Pediatrics Overview
Pediatrics is a very unique specialty in medicine. It is the medical discipline that focuses on the newborn and children. It focuses on promoting normal and healthy growth and development and also treating the illnesses and diseases that attack the early years of life. Children are a wonderful blessing from God. And when they fall ill, we all fall ill with them because our hearts go out to them. They deserve the very best of care, and that is exactly what we offer them here at Carepeak Clinic.
- Child Growth Monitoring
- Child Nutrition
- Feeding Advice
- Important Vaccinations
- Screening for Common Illness
- Consultation with Pediatrician
Benefits of Specialist Consultation
Specialist consultations allow your child to be seen by a specialist pediatrician medical doctor. These are doctors who have further studied child illnesses and have a much more robust experience dealing with childhood and child-related illnesses and disease. If your little one has a condition that has been a challenge to manage then our specialist will help your child.
Health Tips & Info
Children are not small adults. Their whole physiology and anatomy are very different from that of an adult and so are their needs. They are often predisposed to acquiring diseases and illnesses that are unique to them. Even diseases that also affect adults may manifest differently in children.
Why formula can provide most of the nutritional requirements your baby needs, it lacks the natural antibodies and other immune system boosting molecules that come with breast milk. We always encourage mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for at least 6 months. But the longer the better.
Yes it is possible. If both partners have been optimized on antiretroviral treatment and have very low to undetectable values of VL with a good CD4 the chances are high that the baby will be HIV-negative. However, in unoptimized individuals; the chances are very high that the baby will catch HIV either in-utero, at delivery, or through breastfeeding.
Why fever can be treated directly with some medications, it is usually an important sign of a much bigger underlying problem such as an infection. We recommend that you come to the clinic or hospital early if your baby has a persistently high temperature. The doctor will evaluate the little one for possible causes and prescribe the correct treatment. Practicing self-medication can be very dangerous for children. Consult the doctor when you have concerns.
