What is Pediatrics?
The branch of medicine which deals with the ailments of children and the diseases they might be diagnosed with.
What Are The Doctors Of Pediatrics Called?
The medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician. Pediatricians are trained to deal with all types of diseases found in children. Moreover, for the surgical management of the diseases found inc children at birth or which arise during their childhood are managed directly by pediatric surgeons.
When Is It A Good Time To See A Pediatrician?
- Nausea
- Fever
- Baby is under the age of 2 or 3 months with a fever
- Your baby is older than 3 months and also has other symptoms.
- Your child has a high fever.
- Vomiting or Diarrhea
- Coughs, Colds, and Other Respiratory Problems
- Rash
- Pain While Peeing
What Do The Doctors Of Pediatrics Treat?
- Candida albicans infection
- Candida parapsilosis infection
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- Diphtheria
- Human coronavirus infection
- Respiratory distress syndrome
- Measles
- Meconium aspiration syndrome
- Metapneumovirus (hmpv) infection
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Gonorrhea infection of the newborn
- Parainfluenza (PIV) infection
- Pertussis
- Poliomyelitis
- Prenatal Listeria
- Group B streptoccus infection
- Tetanus
- Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection
- Rhinovirus; common cold
- Cold
- AIDS
- Anemia
- Asthma
- Bronchiolitis
- Cancer
- Candidiasis (“Thrush”)
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Croup
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- Dental caries
- Diabetes (Type 1)
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Fifth disease
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza
- Intussusception (medical disorder)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Leukemia
- Measles
- Meningitis
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Mumps
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
- Pneumonia
- Polio
- Rheumatic fever
- Rickets
- Roseola
- Rubella
- Sever’s disease
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Volvulus
- Whooping cough
- Hepatitis A
- Fever
- Scarlet fever (Scarletina)
- Lyme Disease
- Xerophthalmia
- Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections or PANDAS
- PANS