What is Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology?

Paediatric Gastroenterologists care for infants, children and adolescents suffering acute and chronic gastrointestinal problems including:

• inflammatory bowel diseases: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
• coeliac disease
• chronic diarrhoea
• gastroesophageal reflux disease
• malabsorption
• rectal bleeding
• failure to thrive
• food intolerance
• irritable bowel syndrome
• recurrent abdominal pain
• abnormal liver function
• allergic oesophagitis/eosinophilic oesophagitis
• pancreatic disease
• severe constipation