Healthcare Practices

Paediatrics

Paediatricians provide medical care for infants, children and adolescents.

Many diseases are common to both children and adults alike. Some problems however occur only in children.  Some of these include:

• Failure to thrive

• Developmental delay i.e. slow to walk and talk

• Genetic problems

• Bed wetting (enuresis)

• Speech and language problems

• Fits – seizures

• Behavioural problems

• Sleep disorders

• Childhood cancers

• Childhood arthritis