The Family Clinic

Specialized Clinical Practice in Paediatrics and Consultancy in Family Medicine with 30+ years of experience

Child Care & Cure Complex

History

History-01
1991
1996
2020
Febrile Fits or Febrile Seizures
Is a “convulsion” in a child caused as a result of high grade fever.These seizures occurs in babies & young children without a history of neurological symptoms.
Breath Holding Spells

Cyanotic (blueness) Breath Holding Spells usually occurs when a baby / child stops breathing & ultimately turns blue esp. the face.

Epilepsy

It is a central nervous system disorder (a neurological disease) in which the brain’s activity becomes abnormal thereby causing seizures or paroxysmal attacks of abnormal or unusual behaviour, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness.

Mental Retardation

It’s basically an “Intellectual Disability”, characterized by below average intelligence or mental ability & lack of skills necessary for day-to-day living

Failure to Thrive

Inadequate growth or inability to maintain proper growth. It’s a sign of undernutrition or malnutrition.

Nutritional Deficiency

It occurs when a baby doesn’t absorb the necessary amount of nutrients from the foods being given or such babies or kids are not provided a rich nutritious diet altogether.

Poor Growth

It occurs when a child, whose current weight or rate n ratio of weight gain is significantly below that of the expected of similar children of the same age & sex.

Short Stature

A small height “more than the standard deviations below the mean for age” (less than the 3rd percentile).

Delayed Crawling
Sometimes, the babies do not crawl at their proper age but they do start standing at the 1st instant,
this doesn’t mean that there is any abnormality.In rare cases, the muscles n bones are weak enough or there is not proper coordination of the muscles & nerves.
Psychological Problems

Behavioural health conditions increase the risk of developing “chronic diseases”.

Speech Disorders

There are many causes of speech disorders ; which includes muscle weakness, brain injuries, degenerative diseases, autism, auditory (hearing) problems, sometimes, psychological factors do interplay.

Asthma
Asthmatic attacks may occur at all age groups but they often starts in childhood.
It’s a disease characterized by recurrent attacks of breathlessness & wheezing, which vary in severity and frequency from patient to patient.

I graduated from Nishtar Medical University, Multan and was awarded the degree of M.B.B.S(Pb). Afterwards, I proceeded to Turkey to achieve a postgraduate diploma in Diarrhoeal Disease Control Program through WHO and joined the District. Headquarters /Civil Hospital, Faisalabad affiliated with Punjab Medical University, Faisalabad and remained there on the key posts. I have done majors in Paediatrics from Austria. After having been awarded the Postgraduate Degree in Paediatrics , I was later declared as the *Life Member of The American Medical Society*, as a result of mine extraordinary performance in the academics.On my return back to Pakistan, I was offered the most challenging project then as Chief Co-ordinator Vaccinology by the Government of Pakistan. Later, I joined as Medical Director in Government Paramedics Postgraduate University, Faisalabad.