Pediatric Gastroenterology

Pediatric Gastroenterology is a medical subspecialty treated by a Pediatrician or Gastroenterologist, with the necessary experience to diagnose and treat children with gastrointestinal and hepatic disease.

These specialists are also experienced in Pediatric Nutrition.

Surgeries / Specialty Procedures

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures

Upper digestive endoscopy; colonoscopy; therapeutic endoscopic procedures such as polypectomy, extraction of foreign bodies, sclerotherapy and esophageal dilatation; Intestinal and rectal or hepatic biopsy; motility studies; pH-metrics, impedance and manometry; studies of liver function;

Nutrition Techniques

Nutritional assessment; Children’s Nutritional needs; Malnutrition Pathophysiology; Supportive techniques on nutritian for parents. 

Main Pathologies

• Eating disorders;
• Obesity;
• Celiac disease;
• Constipation / Encopresis;
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease;
• Allergies;
• Diarrhea;
• Gastroesophageal Reflux.

Strong points of this speciality

Specialist Consultation on Eating Disorders focused on Nutritional Recovery - follow up of children with poor weight gain and also those that are being fed through parenteral or enteric systems at home.