When your child is sick, you need the expertise and compassion of a pediatrician. Your pediatrician knows how to treat childhood illnesses and injuries and can help your child feel better.

When a child becomes ill, the signs and symptoms can often become more severe than those of an adult, since children’s nasal passages and sinuses are much smaller. Your child may experience coughing and wheezing, sneezing and nasal congestion, or fever and fatigue.

Bacterial infections are another common medical condition in children. Eye, ear, tonsil, and throat infections are a frequent occurrence, causing sore throat, itchy watery eyes, painful draining ears, and swollen lymph nodes. Your pediatrician can diagnose the infection and prescribe an antibiotic regimen.

If your child has allergies, your pediatrician can perform allergy testing and prescribe medication including allergy shots and sublingual immunotherapy. For pediatric asthma, your pediatrician can prescribe short term rescue inhalers and long-term asthma medications.