When your child gets a wound that just won’t heal, or an infection that treatment doesn’t seem to cure, your doctor may recommend you have your child be examined and treated by a pediatrician who specializes in treating wounds or infectious diseases in children.
The pediatric specialists at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas Pediatric Center evaluate and treat bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infections. They also manage complex wounds that develop in infants, children and adolescents. Their specialized training, knowledge and experience gives your child the best possible opportunity to heal as quickly as possible, with minimal discomfort.
Pediatric wound care services
Pediatric wounds may be a result of trauma, surgical complications, medical devices or infections. Our pediatric infectious disease and wound care experts work together to do a complete assessment of all wounds to check for signs of infection that could delay wound healing. Wounds can become an open portal for serious infection to enter the body, infecting the patient’s soft tissue, joints or bones.
Our pediatric wound care physicians most commonly treat these types of wounds:
- Burn injuries
- Infected wounds
- IV fluid burn injuries
- Non-healing surgical and chronic wounds
- Open wounds following trauma
- Pilonidal cysts
- Pressure ulcer and decubitus ulcers
Our wound care specialists utilize progressive, innovative wound management products and provide advanced treatment that is tailored to your child to speed healing, reduce pain and minimize scarring. We offer advanced wound care treatments including:
- Advanced wound dressings and skin ointments such as collagenase
- Medical-grade honey
- Negative pressure wound therapy
Pediatric infectious disease services
Children can contract a wide range of infectious and immunologic diseases. Sometimes even simple infections can respond poorly to routine treatment and may require additional intervention to be cured.
Our pediatricians are experienced in providing consultations, treatment and follow-up care to children, teens and adolescents for a wide range of infectious diseases, such as:
- Bone and joint infections
- Congenital infections
- Diagnosis and management of AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Enteroviruses
- Frequent, recurrent or unusual infections
- Kawasaki disease
- Meningitis
- Recurrent staph skin infections
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- Respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis
- Sexually transmitted diseases (STD)
- Surgical infections
- Tuberculosis
Some infections can be treated at home with antibiotics, but some life-threatening infections may require your child to be hospitalized. Our pediatric hospital, pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are available if your child needs to be monitored during treatment.
The infectious disease and wound care pediatricians at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas Pediatric Center are some of the most skilled in Houston and they are committed to ensuring the best possible outcome for your child. Search our physicians and schedule an appointment today.