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Pediatrician
Last reviewed: 03.07.2025
A pediatrician is a doctor who accompanies children up to 15 years of age, monitoring their development until adolescence.
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Who is a pediatrician?
The pediatrician is the main advisor of the child and mother. He can teach the mother to identify alarm signals. The pediatrician evaluates the child's development and subsequent readiness to enter school.
He gives recommendations on breastfeeding and raising children. The pediatrician identifies and treats childhood diseases: whooping cough, rubella, chickenpox, as well as flu, acute respiratory viral infections and poisoning. The pediatrician also identifies (without prescribing treatment) kidney, cardiovascular and nervous system diseases and refers the child to the appropriate specialists.
When should you see a pediatrician?
- If you see red spots on your child's skin located outside the head.
- The child is restless, has a lot of gas, and his temperature has risen.
- The child has a poor appetite.
- Teeth are coming through.
- The child has loose stools.
- Within a month after discharge from the maternity hospital.
- Up to a year – every month.
- To carry out vaccination
What diagnostic methods does a pediatrician use?
What diagnostic methods does a pediatrician use in his work? Usually, this is a visual examination, listening with a phonendoscope, palpation, percussion, thermometry, measuring the child's height and weight, and diagnostics of blood, urine, and feces in the laboratory.
What does a pediatrician do?
A pediatrician deals with the prevention and treatment of diseases in children under 15 years of age. Prevention consists of vaccinations and medical examinations of children, and the prevention of childhood disabilities. Social pediatrics deals with the medical education of parents.
What diseases does a pediatrician treat?
Are you interested in what diseases a pediatrician treats? Here is a far from complete list of diseases:
- Childhood diseases (measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, rubella).
- ARI, flu.
- Poisoning.
- Heart disease (in collaboration with a cardiologist).
- Kidney diseases - together with a urologist.
- Diseases of the central nervous system – together with a neurologist.
Advice from a pediatrician
Useful tips from a pediatrician for parents.
How to introduce complementary foods? Start with low-fat cottage cheese, vegetable purees and juices. In general, the body's reaction to food products can be very individual. If the child has a food allergy, limit industrial products with preservatives and dyes. It is better to avoid red vegetables. Lean meat can be given from 9 months. It must be without salt.
How long does it normally take for teeth to cut and how can you help your child? Buy Kamistad baby gum gel. Apply 5 mm of gel 3 times a day to the gums.
What to do if your child has excessive sweating of the head? This could be either rickets or an individual feature of the child. If you have found these signs, contact your pediatrician without delay.
During your pregnancy, you probably often imagined yourself rocking your baby and singing lullabies to him. The baby was born, and dreams and real life diverged.
What to do if the baby is crying? Give the baby your breast and rock him. Check if he is wet. Or maybe he is hot or cold. If it is daytime, take a walk in the fresh air. Try to isolate the baby from noise.
Let your pediatrician become a family friend and a reliable, professional advisor, pay special attention to his qualifications and be healthy!