Pediatric & Childrens

We strongly believe in educating patients and families so that they can make informed decisions about their healthcare.

During your visit you can expect to be given educational and community resources that align with your child’s need.

We are dedicated to assisting our patients in maintaining their health and improving it where necessary.

We will strive in each and every visit to meet your medical needs and to provide the best possible medical care.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call our office.

About Childhood Illnesses

This information may help give you an idea about what the problem with your child might be. Don't use it to diagnose your child with a condition. Always leave that to a health professional. Almost all babies, toddlers and children will get the most common childhood illnesses like chickenpox, colds, sore throats and ear infections.Childhood illnesses: include: asthma, bronchiolitis, chickenpox, cold ,cough, croup, diarrhea, vomiting, fever in children, earache, Kawasaki disease, measles, meningitis, mumps, roseola, rubella ,skin rashes in babies, skin rashes in children, scarlet fever, sore throat, whooping cough, urinary tract infections in children, and others.

Signs of Serious Illness in A Baby or Toddler

Here's a checklist of warning signs that might be serious, if your child has any of these signs, get medical help as soon as possible:

Temperature

  • a high temperature, but cold feet and hands

  • a high temperature that doesn't come down with paracetamol or ibuprofen

  • your child is quiet and listless, even when their temperature is down

  • a high temperature in a baby less than 8 weeks old.

Breathing

  • rapid breathing or panting

  • a throaty noise while breathing

  • your child is finding it hard to get their breath and is sucking their stomach in under their ribs

Other Signs

  • blue, pale, blotchy, or ashen (grey) skin

  • your child is hard to wake up, or appears disoriented or confused 

  • they're crying constantly and you can't console or distract them, or the cry doesn't sound like their normal cry

  • green vomit

  • your child has  (convulsion or seizure) for the first time

  • your child is under 8 weeks old and doesn't want to feed 

  • nappies that are drier than usual – this is a sign of dehydration