When your child suffers from a disease or disorder of the digestive system or liver or has nutritional problems the most qualified person to treat them is a pediatric gastroenterologist. This is because they have special training and expertise to perform diagnostic tests of your child’s digestive system.

Pediatric gastroenterologists use special equipment such as endoscopes to examine the digestive tract. They can obtain biopsies when they do the examination. They decorate their offices with children in mind to make them relax. Pediatric gastroenterologists understand that children may find it difficult to answer medical questions. They know how to interact with children so that they can be cooperative.

Pediatric gastroenterologists have the expertise to manage nutritional problems in children. This includes placing and monitoring feeding tubes and intravenous nutrition. They diagnose and treat infants, children, and adolescents with liver disease.

This is a gastroenterologist who has specialized in treating children with diseases and disorders of the digestive system, liver, and nutritional problems. Such problems are usually different in pediatric patients than in adults and require the special training and experience of a pediatric gastroenterologist.

This is a subspecialty of medicine that focuses on dealing with liver, digestive system or nutritional diseases and disorders in neonates, children, and adolescents.