Pediatrics
The most important task of medicine is to preserve health starting from the babyhood. That is why a
priority line in the children’s clinic work is prophylaxis. For this purpose, the programs
of observing healthy children of all age groups have been developed:
- The program of dynamic observation of children in the first year of life
- The program of dynamic observation of children aged from 1 to 2 years
- The program of dynamic observation of children aged from 2 to 4 years
- The program of dynamic observation of children aged from 4 to 7 years
- The program of dynamic observation of children aged from 7 to 12 years
- The program of dynamic observation of children aged from 12 to 16 years
These programs take into account the peculiarities of physical and psychomotor children development at
different periods of their life.
For children of the first year of life the program envisages: monthly observation by a
pediatrician; planned immunization with the use of vaccines from the word leading manufacturers;
examination by the profile specialists; necessary laboratory and instrumental examinations. At the age of
1 month, the compulsory screening investigation is USI of coxofemoral joints, neurosonography (brain USI),
USI of abdominal cavity and retroperiotoneal space. Early diagnostics and treatment of coxofemoral joints
(congenital underdevelopment thereof) is the token of a successful outcome of this disease, which in the
case of untimely intrusion may require an operative treatment or lead to disability. Neurosonography is a
safe, painless and informative enough method of investigating the brain and its structures, helping a
neurologist assess the state of the central nervous system. USI of the abdominal cavity retroperiotoneal
space is performed with the purpose of excluding congenital pathology of the liver, kidneys, bile bladder
and other organs.
The first year of a baby’s life is a period of the most intensive physical and
psychomotor development. This is the most interesting but also the most vulnerable age in the human life.
Often this short length of time determines the level of further health. That is why during this period a
regular observation of a child by a pediatrician, profile specialists (neurologist, orthopedist, oculist,
etc.) is necessary, as well as control of laboratory findings and some instrumental investigations.
Every next step in a child’s life has its own specificities of physical and psychomotor
development. Our children observation programs are made up with regard for these specificities. We not
only control a child’s health at a given step, but also prepare him/her for the transition into a
new age group. Reach program envisages consultations by a psychologist. He/she renders
the professional psychological support to the family in the issues a child’s upbringing, assessing
the level of preparedness for school and consequently, in the right choice of age for attending school, a
school itself, helps parents in preparing children and themselves to the transition age peculiarities. Of
great importance to children and parents would be consultations by a gastroenterologist,
since every age period and each child individually have own specific developmental features and
capabilities of the gastro-intestine tract. Today’s live has brought to us new antibiotics, which
not infrequently exert an adverse effect on the natural intestine microflora. The so-called “fast
food” has appeared; food products are supplemented with a big quantity of preservatives, colorants,
bioadditives; the number of stress factors has increased. In short, there are lots of negative effects on
the functionally immature children’s digestion systems. Depending on a child’s adaptive
capabilities, his/her age, constitution, family anamnesis, family nutrition mode and a child’s taste
predilection, a doctor will give professional recommendations as to the rational nutrition.
Often a poor school progress, frequent headaches and increased fatiguability are directly associated with
a child’s poor vision. With the purpose of early revealing the vision problems, annual examinations
by an oculist are envisaged.
Almost all parents know how vulnerable a child’s ENT organs are, but not everyone knows how
troublesome to a child may be, for example, such “inoffensive” at the first sight, increased
adenoids. These lymphoid glands located deeply in the nose are called to protect an organism against
infections. But sometimes, due to chronic inflammation, they themselves become a source of infection,
impair the nose breathing and blood circulation in the vessels feeding the brain and may adversely
influence a child’s metal development and audition, disturb sleep and increase sensibility to
infections. The task of an
otolaryngologist is to reveal problems as soon as possible in order to avoid the disease
transition into a chronic state.
One-two years before school registration, a child must be examined by a logopedist. The
so-called dyslexions (sound pronunciation impairments) uncorrected in the early age may disturb a child at
school, make a child a laughing stuff from the side of his/her age, and the most important: they sometimes
may become an obstacle in selecting a profession.
Allergic diseases have become the currently central problem of today. At Medical Club we
perform the blood allegro-tests and respiratory tests, which along with other examinations provide the
possibility to reveal the cause of the disease and prescribe the right treatment.
All programs are designed not only to control the children’s health, but also to educate parents
how to render the first medical aid at home, to take reanimation measures, to help the sufferer in case of
aspiration (inhalation) of foreign bodies. In such situations the count is by minutes, so the help must
come from anyone who happened to be around. Ewe will also try to teach parents to identify as early as
possible the initial signs of diseases in infants and the signs of addiction to the pernicious habits in
older children.
The large and important part of a pediatrician’s work is immunization.
The sense of immunization is to create an individual insusceptibility to a number of vitally hazardous
infections, and in so doing to form the collective immunity, which would gradually lead to the null risk
of having a given disease in a given region. A vivid example of immunization efficiency is the pox
liquidated as a disease, and also diphtheria, poliomyelitis and other diseases existing in the world as
isolated cases mostly in the countries with a low level of medical development.
One should apprehend the poor quality vaccines rather than vaccinations.
It is worth to remind as well that health is not only a gift of the nature fallen to our lot from our
parents in the form of good genetics for the whole life, but also the result of everyday labor to preserve
it, make prophylaxis and treat skillfully.
Choose for yourself a reliable helpmate and take care of your health ever since the youth.
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