Paediatrics
Kai has extensive experience across a broad field of paediatrics. So, whether your paediatric patients need a regular paediatric check-up or more specialised medical care, he will care for patients using his years of experience and compassion to help them reach their potential.
Kai’s consult covers a wide range of conditions for infants, children and adolescents, including the following;
Newborn and toddlers
- Neonatal care attendance at birth at the John Flynn Private Hospital (Tugun).
- Routine newborn check-ups at 6-week, 6-month, 12-month and 2-year old checks
- Feeding issues
- A concern of growth – slow, growth and failure to thrive
- Colic and excessive crying in infants
- Skin condition – eczema, common neonatal rashes, birthmarks and skin infections
Behavioural and developmental
- Sleep issues
- Developmental delays include gross and fine motor, speech, lack of social skills and emotional dysregulation
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), anxiety disorder, depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Learning difficulties and intellectual impairment
- Hearing problems, snoring and sleep apneas
Other general paediatrics care
- Allergies
- Rheumatology – joint problems
- Respiratory – Asthma, recurrent coughing and chest infections
- Abdominal – Constipation, soiling, gastro-oesophageal reflux, cow’s milk protein allergy, abdominal pain and diarrhoea
- Renal – congenital renal abnormalities, urinary tract infections and bedwetting
- Neurology – Headache, migraine, seizures, epilepsy and neurocutaneous syndromes, cerebral palsy, and brain malformation
- Congenital anomalies and malformations
- Chromosomal disorders in infants and children
- Endocrinology – thyroid disorders in newborns and infants, diabetes, an inborn error of metabolism
- Haematology – anaemia, iron deficiency, easy bruising and bleeding, enlarged lymph nodes
- Growth – slow weight gain, failure to thrive, premature, delayed puberty, precocious puberty and short stature.