An eight-year-old child needs to go to a pediatrician and a dentist, and at 10, a pediatric neurologist, an endocrinologist, an orthopedic traumatologist and an ophthalmologist, a pediatrician, a pediatric endocrinologist are added to this list. Central Research Institute CMD Prospect Vernadsky Molecular Diagnostic Center told socialbites.ca about the epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Zlata Kazarinova.
According to the order N514n “On the Procedure for the Preventive Medical Examinations of Minors”, the child must be examined by appropriate specialists at certain age periods. If the child has chronic diseases, he should go to narrow specialists every year according to the profile of the disease. But you do not need to undergo a medical examination before school, ”Kazarinova explained.
According to the specialist, it is also important to be examined by an endocrinologist and parasitologist every year.
“Although there are currently no recommendations for annual examination of the thyroid gland (according to Resolution N514n “On the Procedure for Conducting Preventive Medical Examinations of Minors”, examination by a pediatric endocrinologist is implied only at 10 o’clock, 15, 16, 17 years). I recommend doing it once. Because diseases such as nodes, cysts and malignant neoplasms of the thyroid gland and diseases caused by iodine deficiency (our region is the region where iodine deficiency is endemic) may not make itself felt for a long time, ”the pediatrician emphasized.
In addition to the mandatory annual tests, the specialist added a single examination for enterobiasis (one of the types of helminthiasis), as well as stool analysis for worm eggs and protozoan cysts, which should be taken three times at any interval every 2 years.
Formerly Kazarinova said About what tests a child should take before going to school.