What exactly is pediatric gastroenterology?
Pediatric Gastroenterology focuses on the entire digestive or GI tract of patients from birth to 21 years of age. Typically a primary physician will refer a patient to a Pediatric Gastroenterologist when the patient is facing severe or ongoing issues with swallowing, vomiting and /or excess spitting, screaming (in babies), abdominal pain, constipation, stool soiling, chronic diarrhea, liver and pancreatic disorders. Nutritional problems sometimes faced by infants, children and adolescents such as failure to gain weight, weight loss, failure to grow normally and obesity are also issues commonly investigated and treated by Pediatric Gastroenterologists.
