Paediatrics

Raffles Pediatrics provides one-stop medical care from basic paediatric medicine to specialist medical care. We have a compassionate team of paediatric specialists, neonatology specialists and nurses, committed to providing medical and growth-related assistance to newborns, infants, children or adolescents. Paediatric services include the treatment of various diseases, emergency medical response and clinical management, and our paediatricians all ensure that your child receives proper care. Our Services Neonatal Diagnosis and Care We provide outpatient and inpatient services, including treatment for various neonatal diseases, such as: neonatal jaundice, neonatal pneumonia, neonatal hemolytic disease, etc. General Paediatrics - 24-hour outpatient and inpatient treatment, worry-free treatment of common paediatric diseases, such as: recurrent respiratory tract infections, febrile convulsions, suppurative tonsillitis, laryngitis, bronchiolitis, various pneumonias, Kawasaki disease, myocarditis, diarrhoeal diseases, Guillain-Barré syndrome, benign polymyositis, infectious mononucleosis, herpangina, hand, foot and mouth disease, mumps, rubella, measles, viral enteritis, etc. Infant and Child Vaccinations Emergency: treatment of various acute and critical conditions Child Health Care Programmes We provide routine child healthcare programmes including physical examinations, feeding guidance, sleep guidance, etc. The growth and development charts recommended by the World Health Organization are used to assess children's physical development, and the US ASQ screening questionnaire is used to assess children's neuropsychological development. In addition, we provide children with height screening, vision screening and hearing screening to meet the healthcare and height development needs from newborns to adolescents. Short Stature Intervention, Precocious Puberty Intervention We conduct height measurement, sexual development assessment, bone age testing and height prediction, address factors related to short stature, provide advice on daily life aspects such as nutrition, exercise and sleep, and for related diseases (such as growth hormone deficiency, precocious puberty, thyroid diseases, genetic metabolic diseases, etc.), conduct early screening, early detection and early treatment, and provide scientific, personalised height-promotion plans. Gastroenterology and Nutrition Our paediatric gastroenterology specialists can address concerns regarding your child's feeding problems or gastrointestinal diseases. Together with nutritionists, we provide advice on the best treatment and care needed to ensure your child's healthy growth, especially helping to relieve the problems caused by lactose intolerance in your newborn baby. Allergic Diseases Nowadays, children are increasingly prone to allergic diseases, such as allergic rhinitis, asthma and atopic dermatitis (eczema). We can investigate the symptoms and develop an individualised treatment plan for your child. We can also perform allergen testing for food and inhaled allergens. Bronchial Asthma Specialty Our expert team has extensive clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma. Your recurrent cough and wheezing can be clearly diagnosed through clinical examination, pulmonary function testing and allergen testing, followed by appropriate treatment, to relieve the troubles caused by the disease. Nephrology Our paediatric nephrology specialists can address the problems of children with kidney-related diseases, such as recurrent urinary tract infections, urinary frequency, bedwetting problems, hypertension, nephrotic syndrome, glomerulonephritis (including lupus), hereditary kidney diseases (including antenatal and fetal abnormalities), and chronic kidney disease. Examination Items We Provide Assessment of children's physical development Children's neuropsychological development screening (ASQ) Vision screening Hearing screening Bone age testing Bone density examination (5-19 years) Height prediction Short stature examination Precocious puberty examination Paediatric pulmonary function measurement (above 4 years) Jaundice screening Allergen measurement Trace element measurement Examination for developmental dysplasia of the hip Cardiac ultrasound, lung ultrasound, intracranial ultrasound, hepatobiliary ultrasound, etc.