Sangwai Clinics offers comprehensive nutrition services for children with complex nutritional needs. The program’s team includes international experts in the field, one of the most experienced teams in the country. Our specialists ensure that your child receives the nutrients critical for health, growth, and development. Specialized Care for a Growing Child Services include advanced pediatric gastroenterological treatment from a multidisciplinary team that includes dieticians, nurses, physician assistants, and physicians. The nutrition team treats children with special nutrition needs, including those who require gastronomy or jejunal tube feeding, and inpatients who need close monitoring of their nutrient intake. Additionally, Children’s National offers the highest level of specialized care for children requiring home parenteral nutrition. Common care services provided: Consultations for newly diagnosed patients with conditions like celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease, and cases requiring a second opinion Gastrostomy and jejunal feeding tubes endoscopically placed by our expert team with specialized feeding experience Patients’ nutritional needs monitored under the direction of a highly skilled nurse practitioner and dietician Ongoing care for children dependent on a feeding tube with equipment available for anthropometric measurement (measurement of growth) for children in wheelchairs

Immunizations, or vaccines as they’re also known, safely and effectively use a small amount of a weakened or killed virus or bacteria or bits of lab-made protein that imitate the virus in order to prevent infection by that same virus or bacteria. When you get an immunization, you’re injected with a weakened form of (or a fragment of) a disease. This triggers your body’s immune response, causing it to either produce antibodies to that particular ailment or induce other processes that enhance immunity. Then, if you’re ever again exposed to the actual disease-causing organism, your immune system is prepared to fight the infection. A vaccine will usually prevent the onset of a disease or else reduce its severity. Why Should Someone Get Immunized? The goal of public health is to prevent disease. It’s much easier and more cost-effective to prevent a disease than to treat it. That’s exactly what immunizations aim to do. Immunizations protect us from serious diseases and also prevent the spread of those diseases to others. Over the years immunizations have thwarted epidemics of once common infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough. And because of immunizations we’ve seen the near eradication of others, such as polio and smallpox. Some vaccines need to be given only once; others require updates or “boosters” to maintain successful immunization and continued protection against disease.

Pediatric consultation is a common medical process that involves the assessment and diagnosis of conditions affecting children and, to a certain extent, teens, as well as the management of the overall health and wellness of the patients through certain preventative measures. Pediatrics is a branch of medicine that deals with the medical needs of children. A doctor who specializes in it is called a pediatrician. Pediatricians spend many years of education and training in the field. They begin with 4 years in undergraduate studies and another 4 years in medical school. They then enter into a residency program of an accredited hospital for the next 3 years. After that, they take the board exam for certification. Pediatrics also has subspecialties, including but not limited to oncology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, and even psychology. Subspecializing requires additional years in a fellowship program.