What is pediatric?                               
Pediatrics is a medical branch dealing with health related issues of children, infants and adolescents. Practitioners specialized in the pediatric field are known as pediatricians.

Disease and conditions

• Common childhood problems - hypertension, mud eating, hypothermia (low body temperature - less than 35 degree C) and thumb sucking.

• Allergies - child’s immunity is affected and body reacts to food, medicines, dust and animal dander.

• Autoimmune disorders - overactive immune response of the body against tissues and substances in the child’s body.

• Birth defects - cysts in the lung, due to which adolescents are having breathing problem. They have intestinal obstruction and swelling in body.

• Blood disorders - coagulate (infection in blood cells) and abnormal functioning of blood in the body.

• Problems in joints and bones - children are unable to perform daily activities like running, walking etc. and they also experience a pain.

• Dental problems - cavities, toothache, growing new teeth

• Developmental problems - hysteria, depression, disable to learn and children with autism

• Eating disorder - obesity, body image disturbance, eating non-nutritious food.

• Gastrointestinal problems - ulcerative disorders in gastrointestinal tract as it is damaged by stomach acids and enzymes.

• Growth and development - height, weight and circumference of the head is no growing.

• Infectious disease - organs are affected by pathological agents like virus, bacteria, fungi, multi-cellular parasites and the prions.

• Heart problems - pediatrics doctors diagnosis atrial septic  defect, tetralogy of fallot, truncus arteriosus and ventricular septal defect in children.

• Problems in head and neck - swelling in neck, cleaft palate, cleft lip and torticolis.

• Kidney disorder - renal stones, hydronephrosis, blood in urine and urinary tract infection.

• Liver problem - Wilson’s disease and biliary atresia.

• Neurological diseases - disorder of spinal cord, brain and nerves in the body

Test, treatment, drugs, and diagnose
Child specialist doctors perform the tests and procedures like biopsies, ultrasounds, scans, examination, urine and stool test and x-rays including MRI, barium, video swallow and upper GI to diagnose the disease in children.

When to call pediatrics doctors?
Take your child to the pediatrician if he is having trouble in breathing, swallowing, learning, digestion, eating, pain, fever, mental retardation and other physical and mental disorders.