All parents do not wish for anything more than their children’s well-being and
sufficient immunity for all diseases. The Ratchaphruek Hospital, under the team of
specialized pediatricians and professional nurses, is committed to providing
medical services to take care of your children’s health in a holistic way by means
of health check-ups, vaccination, growth check-ups and age development
monitoring.

The Hospital offers our medical examination and treatment by a team of
specialized pediatricians in various areas. It has its own in-house laboratory, which
is modern and well-equipped, rendering accurate diagnosis and, thus, helping
pediatricians to come up with quicker solutions for the treatment.
The Hospital has allocated a spacious area of the Hospital to treat sick children
specifically, separating them from the rest of other children for safety concern.

The Pediatric Clinic provides diagnostic examinations to children by general
pediatricians and other specialized pediatricians in various branches as follows:

• Endocrine and growth
• Respiratory disease
• Allergy and immunity
• Development and behavior
• Digestive System
• Hematology
• Neurology
• Cardiology
• Infectious Disease
• Specialized pediatricians in kidneys
• Pediatric Surgery

Endocrine Disease and growth development in Children Clinic
Child normal growth relies on a combination of various factors, both internal and
external, for example, upbringing pattern, nutrition, sleeping and waking pattern,
the amount of exercise. Internally, hormones and bone development are the 2
additional factors that play a crucial role in normal growth development in
children.
Nowadays, many parents attach a lot of importance to the growth development of
their children. Hence, this Clinic has been specially set up to give consultations on
a good functioning of the endocrine and its impact on child growth development.
The Clinic is manned by specialized doctors in this area to give advice, diagnostic
examination and proper treatment.

Who should get consultation from this Clinic?

• Children whose growth development is not normal, i.e., not having the
  average height in relation to their age (too short or too tall)
• Young children who have grown up too fast or too slowly (as gauged by the
  speed of breasts and sexual organ developments, cracked voices in boys,
  abnormal rate of developing body odour, not having periods at given ages in
  girls or absence of periods after a while)
• Abnormal genitalia, such as, ambiguous genitalia, imperforate hymen,
  ectopic opening of genitalia, undescended testis
• Dysfunctional pituitary glands
• Shortage of thyroid hormones
• Diabetes in children and adolescents
• Dysfunction of adrenal glands
• Counseling on hormones provisions for the transgender group

Children’s Behavioral Development Clinic

This Clinic of the Hospital has specialized pediatricians who give consultations,
undertake assessment test on child development and deliver diagnosis regarding
upbringing problems, underdevelopment, naughtiness, short attention span,
aggressiveness as well as learning problems in children. Our pediatricians will
collaborate with teams of specialists in

• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy