For the children, healing is usually a specialist in pediatric medicine is responsible. This serves infants and toddlers in the event of illness. The pediatrician is concerned with the treatment of diseases in children, notes, diagnoses and treats the underlying disease. He also deals with the physical and mental development of the child. Another form of pediatrics is neonatology. This includes the care of premature babies who are under-developed for your age. This allows quick and accordingly also soon find diseases or abnormalities of the child. If such studies have been completed at a neonatologist, this child is placed in the care of a pediatrician. The pediatrician is also even for the regular screening of children to be responsible to the age of 12. For children already small signs of disease in each case the specialist should be consulted for Pediatrics. With advice and did it seems to stand the parents and the sick little available. If it is a serious disease of the child's action, it will then transfer the child to a specialist. In these cases, there are then various specialist groups.

Special specialists who belong to pediatrics!
Among other things, there are matched in pediatrics or any specific fields only to children. Is found in a child a heart disease, should therefore seek advice from a pediatric cardiologist. This deals only with heart disease. By special studies of the pediatric cardiologist may then identify diseases of the heart. Furthermore, there is the children's surgery. This specializes in surgery on newborn infants, children and young people. Operations on the stomach and chest and trauma surgery are once again a special unit. In contrast to the adult surgery lead pediatric surgeons from even surgery on joints and bones. Almost all diseases from the pediatrics be healed by drug therapies. Only in very specific cases, operations are necessary.
A child does not matter which disease was found in pediatrics do well and set aside.

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