Child Health and Diseases
Our Department of Child Health and Diseases provides vaccination, diagnosis and treatment services for children between the ages of 0-15. Our hospital provides 24-hour uninterrupted polyclinic and emergency services with its pediatric outpatient clinic, specialist doctors.
Child Health Services:
Healthy child follow-up
Evaluation of children’s developmental process and growth
Vaccination applications and follow-up of the vaccination program
Childhood scans
Nutrition education and proper nutrition recommendations
Inpatient/outpatient monitoring and treatment of sick children
Risky baby monitoring and treatments
Neonatal jaundice follow-up
Allergy and asthma diagnosis, monitoring and treatment
Our other departments related to Child Health
Orthopedic problems in children
Children’s eye examinations and treatments
Child and adolescent counseling center
child otolaryngology
Oral and dental health in children
pediatric surgery
Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric allergy
Investigations with low-dose radiation tomography (Multislice Tomography)
Doğan Hospital has the title of baby-friendly hospital. Babies are followed up with the mother in order to support breast milk. In this process, our baby nurses provide breastfeeding consultancy services.
Psychological and Psychiatric Counseling for Children and Adolescents
Our expert psychiatrists and clinical psychologists evaluate the psychological problems of children and adolescents and provide professional services to improve their mental development, creativity and coping power.
Upper Respiratory Diseases in Infants
Children, especially from the sixth month, get upper and lower respiratory tract diseases until the age of 3 years. The reason for this is that the immune system is not strong. Breast milk is the most important factor for a strong immune system. After the age of 1, the toddler interacts with his environment and starts to meet microbes in every new world he discovers. And in this process, children are exposed to upper and lower respiratory tract infections.
What are the Symptoms of the Disease?
Runny nose, cough, fever, post-nasal drip, burning-pain in the throat, weakness, loss of appetite are the most basic symptoms. Protect Your Child from Lower-Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
How Can You Protect?
The most important method of protection is hygiene. It is necessary for family members and the child to wash their hands when they come home from outside. Parents should contact their children after creating the necessary hygiene environment.
What is colic?
Some babies have prolonged crying spells during the day. These episodes of excessive crying are called “colic”. All babies cry and may become restless, but if this situation continues for a long time and without interruption, it is considered colic. Infants with colic experience sudden abdominal pain. This distress, which starts 15 days after the birth of the baby, usually passes towards the end of the 3rd month.
What Causes Colic?
Colic can be due to many reasons. Among these reasons, the formation of gaseous element due to enzyme deficiency in the gastrointestinal tract, the formation of sensitivity or allergy to the protein in the food as a result of feeding with formulas, excessive gassiness of the baby or communication disorders between the parents and the baby can be shown as the cause of colic.
If the Baby Cries Due to Colic, How Should It Be Calmed?
If you are breastfeeding, you should stay away from foods that cause gas. If the baby is bottle fed, you should not shake the bottle. Thus, you can prevent the formation of air bubbles. Make sure your baby is hungry or thirsty. Take your baby in your arms and talk to him, walk him and tell him something. Plan your baby’s feeding intervals and if you are sure that your baby is full, feed him approximately every 3-4 hours. If the baby still hasn’t calmed down, have him listen to music.
Let your baby relax with a warm bath. Massage your baby with soft touches. Gently rub his tummy, back, arms and legs.
Our Other Departments Related to Child Health
Child-Adolescent Psychological Counseling Service
The spiritual development of children and young people is at least as important as their physical development. Sometimes, stress situations encountered in life can cause some psychological problems in children and young people. In order to prevent this situation, our Child Health department works together with our Family Counseling Center and provides psychological counseling services to our children and youth.
Language and Speech Disorders
Problems such as speech disorders, articulation of speech sounds, voice quality and speech rhythm disorders can be treated with therapy methods that include game-based speech exercises.
Neonatal Intensive Care Service
Our neonatal intensive care unit provides preterm birth, multiple pregnancy and pediatric surgery services in need of intensive care.
Oral and Dental Health in Children
In our oral and dental clinic, children are given oral and dental hygiene education, caries preventive applications, orthodontics (tooth correction), filling and root canal treatment. Tooth fractures and tooth loss due to falling or hitting, which are common especially in children, can be treated.
Pediatric Surgery – Newborn Circumcision
Circumcision, which is the most frequently performed surgical procedure in childhood, is performed within the first 30 days after birth is called neonatal circumcision.
What are the Benefits of Newborn Circumcision?
It reduces the risk of urinary tract infection and cancer.
There is no psychological trauma due to circumcision.
It heals quickly.
The risk of bleeding is low.
Local anesthesia is sufficient, possible problems of general anesthesia
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Child Ear Nose Throat
In our otolaryngology outpatient clinic, the diagnosis and treatment of children’s problems such as adenoid and tonsil problems, hearing loss, middle ear inflammation and fluid, congenital or acquired stenosis in the airways are performed.
Children’s Eye Health
It is very important not to be late in the diagnosis of eye diseases in children. All children should be examined by an ophthalmologist at birth, at the age of 1, before they reach the age of 4, even if there is no problem. In our ophthalmology department, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as lazy eye, congenital glaucoma (eye pressure), eyelid diseases, eye watering (tear duct obstruction), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), nystagmus (involuntary eye movements) and congenital cataracts are performed.
Because premature babies can develop serious retinal problems, babies should be examined for ROP (retinopathy of prematurity) when they are 30 days old. In our hospital, the eye number of babies and children can be measured in just a few seconds with the new technology pediatric refractometer. The measurement can be made from a distance of one meter and without touching the child.
