Paediatrics

The H.U.B’s Department of Paediatrics includes 10 services and deploys its outpatient (consultations) activities  at the  HUDERF and the Erasmus Hospital, home to one of the H.U.B’s four paediatric hospitalisation units.   

At the Erasmus site (Anderlecht), the Integrated Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Department proposes a number of general and specialised consultations:   

•  General Paediatrics treats children with complex and/or rare diseases, adopting a multidisciplinary approach when necessary.   
• Allergology proposes diagnostic assessments and treatment for   

1. Asthma (see Research) and respiratory allergic diseases   (prick test, respiratory function tests, etc.)  
2. Food allergies: oral provocation tests, desensitization/induction of tolerance, etc. ;  
3. Drug allergies: provocation tests in the case of a suspected allergy to antibiotics (penicillin), for example.   

•  Gastro-paediatrics is concerned with children with diseases of the digestive tube that sometimes require complex endoscopic treatment, such as chronic intestinal inflammatory diseases (CIID), chronic constipation, gastro-intestinal malformations, etc.   
• Paediatric endocrinology treats growth disorders, child diabetes, etc.   
• Paediatric nephrology treats infections, malformations and other kidney diseases.   
• (Extremely) premature infants are cared for by the Paediatrics Department, possibly in cooperation with a private paediatrician, on leaving neonatalogy. 
• The Travel Baby Clinic welcomes families with children aged under 16 for prophylactic treatment and the treatment of tropical infectious diseases (e.g.: malaria, breakbone fever, vaccination, etc.)   
• Paramedical paediatric consultations :  dieticians, psychologists and physiotherapists specialised in childhood diseases also propose consultations at the Erasmus Hospital.   

Paediatrics adopts a “pain-free” approach for all potentially painful interventions (wart curettage, placing or removing stitches, minor surgery, etc.).    

The H.U.B’s paediatric neurosurgery clinic treats children from throughout Belgium with brain tumours or cerebral vascular malformations. These children benefit from the latest neuroimaging  techniques (MEG, PET-MR) and multidisciplinary care that includes specialists in neuropaediatrics, in neurosurgery, in neuro-oncology and in  interventional neuroradiology.