What is the specialty of medicine that cares for infants, children and adolescents?
Q: What is the specialty of medicine that cares for infants, children and adolescents?
A: Pediatrics is the specialty of medicine that cares for infants, children and adolescents.
Q: Who works in pediatrics?
A: A person who works in pediatrics is called a pediatrician.
Q: What do pediatricians do?
A: Pediatricians take care of diseases that children get. They also make sure that children develop normally and try to prevent illness. One of the most important ways that children's diseases can be prevented is by immunization (also known as vaccination).
Q: How did childhood deaths change in the 19th century?
A: In the nineteenth century, one in five children died before the age of five due to infectious diseases. Today some of these deaths are prevented by treating disease when it happens and most are prevented with immunizations.
Q: What else do pediatricians do besides prevent illnesses?
A: Pediatricians also try to prevent other diseases and injury before they happen. They teach parents about safety and nutrition, as well as older children or adolescents about avoiding injury or addiction to alcohol and tobacco. Because childhood is such a time of change, prevention is a major part of pediatrics.
Q: What ages does pediatrics cover?
A: Pediatrics covers from early months until 18-21 years old.
