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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ARE NOT THE SAME THING
Every parent’s desire is to give birth to a healthy baby. And then his wishes are for him to be a healthy child and teenager… so what should he pay attention to in his healthy growth and development? Here is the answer to this question, doctor, a specialist in Child Health and diseases “Growth and development are not the same thing.”
Attention to parents who dream that your baby will grow and develop healthy! It’s important for parents to be conscious that she’s a big boy or a young girl. Because usually parents concentrate on the baby’s food and growth. However, there are many other criteria for growth and development, and your attention, as well as pediatricians, leads to a healthier process. Emphasizing that the most important feature that separates the child from the adult person is that it experiences a constantly growing and developing process, Dr. emphasizes that proper nutrition, cognitive support, necessary vaccination practices, emotional satisfaction, good motor skills, healthy adult period are the sine qua non and gives the following information:
“Growth is an increase in body volume and mass due to an increase in cell number and size. The most important factor in height elongation is genes. We can also add quality nutrition and sports to the factors affecting height growth. Although all three are complete, an intervening significant chronic disease can cause the neck to not be the targeted height. Development, on the other hand, is maturation in the motor, mental, social and emotional fields with the change in the structure and content of cells and tissues. But growth and development vary according to age periods.”
Turkey Medicals member and Doctor at Acibadem hospital in Antalya who said that, “Children are open to all kinds of development during period of 0-18 years, which is considered childhood, emphasized that these developments cover physical, moral, cognitive, individual sexual, language, emotional, psychomotor and social developments, and that “they can all complement each other. It should be noted that growth alone is not an indicator of Health. For healthy growth, it is necessary to conduct tests, vaccines and supplements specific to this period for each period. The sentence parents should keep in mind is this: growth is different, development is different, being healthy is different,” he says.
Note routine tracking to your calendar
It is very important to stick to routine monitoring to ensure the health of children, and not delay the visit to the pediatrician. Follow-up intervals of children are generally listed as follows: examination at birth, examination at discharge if everything goes normally, 48-72 hours after discharge, between 7-14 days, 1-12th month, 13-15 month, 18th month, 21st month, 2 years. After two years, every 6 months until the age of 5. Once a year from five to 10 years old. Every 1-2 years between the ages of 10-16.
Do not neglect
Children should be monitored even when they are healthy. In this way, you can get a full idea of your health. There is an opportunity to intervene early on in missing or wrong directions. But the parents of children who do not seem to have a problem with their health sometimes do not take their children to routine doctor’s examinations because they are healthy anyway. Turkish doctor said, “This is a behavior that we observe from time to time, especially in the parents of children who have ended the vaccination period. However, in this case scoliosis (curvature of the spine), anemia, vitamin deficiencies, short stature due to early puberty, and various heart diseases, skipping go silent due to situations such as renal disease, urinary tract infections that can be exposed to,” she says.
A doctor who noted that the body’s needs can change during periods when growth is faster and emphasize that each period has its own unique monitoring parameters and frequency. Growth is fastest in the 0-1 age period. The second acceleration period is adolescence.
So, in what periods, what examinations are performed to monitor what growth development in childhood?
0-1 Month newborn baby
Even if a baby is born prematurely or on time (i.e. 2-3 weeks premature), it can change the frequency of follow-up and examinations. According to diseases that come from the family with a genetic Transition, Monitoring and examinations can also be performed according to these priorities.
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WHAT EXAMINATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT?
A newborn baby needs to undergo scans such as vision, hearing, hip dislocation, newborn screening tests, height, weight, head circumference, general body and neurological examination. Blood type, newborn hepatitis vaccine, vitamin K are usually applied around the world. In cases that can develop after birth (jaundice), additional blood tests and research come into play.
1 month – 12 months milk child
The 2 most important criteria of child in the 0-1 age period are weight gain and growth of the head circumference. Boy remains in the final plan. Head circumference is considered a sign of brain development, weight gain is also fed.
Every mother should be encouraged to breastfeed her baby for at least 6 months. Mother; baby care, breastfeeding, should be prepared for additional nutrition. Knowing the motor, mental and developmental characteristics of babies that change every month means preventing delays in advance. One of the most important points in child monitoring is that the mother can communicate healthily with the pediatrician, thus transferring information about all changes in the child.
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WHAT EXAMINATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT?
A general blood test should be performed between 6-12 months, even if it is not a special case. After that, blood tests should be repeated no later than 3 years, even if everything is fine. The content of these studies is shaped by the growth and development of the child. In every child, especially vitamin D, iron levels should be looked at. It is necessary to inform the family about vaccines, make the necessary explanations about their causes and consequences.
1-4 play ages
An important period in Child Development. It covers important developments such as speech, mobility, knowing sexuality, and transition to individuality. Also during this period, dental development is completed. In the child; fine motor such as drawing lines, dressing, buttoning buttons; rough motor movements such as cycling, somersault, running develop rapidly. This period is considered to be the beginning of socialization. Age 3 begins awareness of sexuality. All these developments can vary from child to child. After the age of 3, the relationship between cause and effect, the differences between abstract and concrete are understood.
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WHAT EXAMINATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT?
In order to evaluate growth and development, blood tests such as blood counts, liver enzymes, kidney function, alkaline phosphatase, vitamin levels in the blood, celiac tests should be performed. In addition, in this age group, urine, stool examinations, abdominal ultrasound, hormones, bone age, heart ultrasound, if there is doubt, tests should be performed to rule out various genetic diseases that cause growth retardation.
4-6 years preschool period
At this age, logic begins to develop. Language, perceptual, cognitive development and socialization are increasing markedly. They prefer group games. Trends in this period should be noticed and children should be directed according to their abilities. It is important to prepare children for the school period in terms of mental, physical and social aspects during this period.
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WHAT EXAMINATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT?
If there is a decline in normal growth earlier in this period, the specified examinations should be performed between the ages of 1-4. Mild observation of Innate diseases can sometimes delay diagnosis. Children with a potential predisposition to a particular disease can be triggered by their diet or disease.
6-18 years of school and adolescence
In neurological, mental and emotional monitoring of school-age children, attention should be paid to the evaluations of teachers as well as parents. Especially during adolescence, it is important to carefully monitor the emotional development of children and take measures against the resulting distressed situations.
The necessary guidance on children’s dental health should also be emphasized. If the child is playing heavy sports, it is recommended to have an extra Cardiological doctor’s examination in Turkey hospitals. Childhood vaccines continue until the age of 14, and although the age group of 10-16 is also healthy, they should be seen by a doctor no later than 2 years.
Hormonal changes during adolescence, when you try to become an adult, can cause fluctuations not only in sex hormones, but also in other hormones. Transferring this information to the child is very important for him and her to understand the changes in itself.
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WHAT EXAMINATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT?
Examinations between the ages of 1-4 are also suitable for this period. But since it is a period that also includes puberty, hormonal conditions, Sports that affect growth (such as weightlifting) are more important. Children need to be reviewed for bone injuries and early puberty that can close growth cartilage early.
What period is called?
0-1 month newborn
1-12 months milk child
1-4 age playing age
4-6 years preschool period
We can classify 6-18 years as school and adolescence.
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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