Pediatric Dermatology

Pediatric dermatology is the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases of the child's skin, hair and nails. We care about the kid health from the first days of their life to adolescence - 18 years.

Most families face childhood dermatological diseases. Moreover, there are specific “age-related” diseases.

For newborns it is:

• diaper dermatitis
• seborrheic dermatitis
• diaper rash
• sweating
• neonatal pemphigus
• vesiculopustulosis

For children of preschool and early school age:

• dermatoses
• pyoderma
• infectious diseases
• parasitic diseases

For school students and teenagers:

• acne
• neurodermatitis
• folliculitis
• boils
• psoriasis
• nails and hair diseases

Children of any age are not immune from skin tumors, which are:

• hemangioma
• warts
• pigmented nevi
• dermatofibroma
• papilloma
• melanoma and others

Dermatological diseases are a common phenomenon. Almost all of them signal a functional disorder of various organs and systems, they need immediate competent comprehensive treatment. Health professionals strongly recommend that parents consult a pediatric dermatologist when the first changes appear on the skin, nails and hair.

What symptoms should you see a dermatologist with?

• Redness, skin sloughing,  skin discoloration (hyper- and hypopigmentation, dyschromia)
• Severe dry skin or oily skin
• Appearance and growth of formations on the skin (genital warts, papillomas, nevuses, etc.)
• Change in the quantity, size and shape of fresh and long-existing formations on the skin (warts and moles).
• Change the nails and hair structure
• Skin itching (not accompanied by a rash and without a rash)

To preserve the health and beauty of your children, to prevent skin diseases and effectively and safely otreat them - all this is possible at GMC.

Our center facilities allow us to carry out all types of diagnostics and apply all therapies that exist in international dermatological practice.

A dermatologist consults in the treatment of skin diseases of various etiologies:

• skin rashes with lesions of a fungal infection, including damage to the skin appendages (nails, hair)
• treatment of viral skin diseases: herpetic dermatitis, herpes zoster, molluscum contagiosum, etc.
• treatment of acne (youthful acne, later acne, etc.), seborrheic skin lesions
• parasitic diseases (pediculosis, scabies)
• skin diseases of an allergic nature (eczematous inflammation, allergic dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, toxicoderma)
• skin diseases of an autoimmune nature (psoriasis, vitiligo, etc.)
• collagenoses - scleroderma and lupus erythematosus
• bullous dermatoses (pemphigus, erythema multiforme exudative)

What services does a pediatric dermatologist provide?

• Primary consultation with a pediatric dermatologist
• Repeated consultation with a pediatric dermatologist

The first step to healthy skin, hair and nails is to consult a pediatric dermatologist.

At the doctor's appointment he:

• examines the patient
• analyzes all symptoms worrying the child and his parents
• clarifies information on concomitant diseases of various organs and systems, allergic reactions
• recommends the necessary diagnostic measures

What examination does a pediatric dermatologist prescibe?

• Luminescent diagnostics
• Microscopic diagnostics of fungal infections of the skin and skin appendages (nails and hair)
• Dermatoscopy

A pediatric dermatologist can involve other specialists in the diagnostic and treatment program: an infectious disease doctor, an allergist-immunologist, a gastroenterologist, etc.

A unique method of treating chronic skin diseases is PUVA therapy.

PUVA therapy is a treatment method in which a photoactive substance is used in conjunction with skin irradiation with long-wave ultraviolet radiation.

PUVA therapy is very effective in the treatment of severe psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, vitiligo.