Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Pediatric Clinic（番禺院区）

Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Pediatrics is one of the distinctive TCM specialty departments at Guangdong Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Guangdong Children’s Hospital, and a key TCM specialty in Guangdong Province under the 11th Five-Year Plan. The department has strong technical expertise and has made important contributions to the prevention and control of public health events such as melamine milk-powder-related calculi in children, hand, foot and mouth disease, influenza, and COVID-19 pneumonia, and participated in formulating the 2015 Guangdong Province Expert Consensus on the Prevention and Treatment of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease with Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has 5 beds, 1 deputy chief physician specializing in integrated Chinese and Western medicine, 3 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians, as well as a highly qualified nursing team. For many years, upholding the spirit of “great physicianship and sincerity” and the mission of serving patients wholeheartedly, the department has combined modern medical technology in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric diseases, carried forward classical TCM formulas, and fully leveraged the diagnostic and therapeutic advantages of TCM in common, frequently occurring, and difficult pediatric diseases and in multidisciplinary collaboration. It has an inpatient ward based on modern diagnostic and treatment technology, with distinctive TCM therapies as its strength and modern pediatric diagnosis and treatment as its support. It has distinctive expertise in diagnosing and treating pediatric viral infectious diseases, skin diseases such as eczema and urticaria, oral mucosal diseases, psychoemotional disorders, cough, and wheezing disorders, providing patients with individualized, precise diagnosis and treatment using TCM or an integrated Chinese-Western approach; its efficacy has won parents’ recognition.【Specializes in diagnosis and treatment using TCM or integrated TCM and Western medicine】 Viral infectious diseases: influenza, infectious mononucleosis, viral enteritis, viral pneumonia, mumps, varicella, herpes zoster, dengue fever, measles, etc. Skin diseases: eczema, urticaria, atopic dermatitis, urticarial vasculitis, allergic purpura, etc. Oral mucosal diseases: hand, foot and mouth disease, herpangina, herpesviral gingivostomatitis, cheilitis, oral lichen planus, refractory oral ulcers, Behçet’s disease, etc. Acute and chronic cough and wheezing Spleen and stomach disorders: diarrhea, abdominal distention, constipation, abdominal pain, peptic ulcer, irritable bowel syndrome, etc. ENT and ophthalmic diseases: adenoid hypertrophy, sinusitis, rhinitis, chalazion, hordeolum, etc. Growth retardation, malnutrition, precocious puberty, hyperthyroidism, menstrual disorders of adolescence, etc. Jaundice, liver disease Urinary frequency, enuresis, recurrent urinary tract infections, overactive bladder syndrome, kidney disease, etc. Neuropsychiatric diseases: tic disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, habitual genital rubbing, sleep disorders 【Specialty features】The department adheres to the principle of “when TCM can be used, Western medicine is not used; TCM first, Western medicine second; giving equal weight to TCM and Western medicine; upholding TCM while drawing on Western medicine; and combining disease differentiation with syndrome differentiation.” It is skilled in applying classical TCM formulas, paying particular attention to regulating children’s spleen and stomach function. In clinical practice, it emphasizes the use of comprehensive TCM therapies (acupuncture, auricular points, bloodletting therapy, tuina, herbal paste formulas, medicinal diet, TCM herbal enemas, foot baths, fumigation and washing therapy, etc.) to diagnose and treat pediatric diseases, thereby developing a distinctive approach characterized by complementary strengths of Chinese and Western medicine and simultaneous internal and external treatment.