Pediatric Infectious Disease


Advanced Techniques to Diagnose and Treat Pediatric Infectious Diseases

If your child or adolescent has an infectious disease, the pediatric infectious disease specialists at Loyola Medicine can provide expert diagnosis and care. We offer outpatient and emergency inpatient consultations for diagnosis and management of a variety of conditions.

Your child might contract an infectious disease through contact with another person, an animal or an insect. It’s also possible to get an infectious disease from food contamination or indirectly through contact with germs on an object.

Loyola’s experienced pediatric infectious disease specialists treat a wide array of conditions, including:

  • Bartonella
  • Bone and joint infections
  • Congenital infections
  • Diarrheal diseases
  • Fever of uncertain origin
  • Fungal infections
  • Immunodeficiency conditions
  • Influenza
  • Intra-abdominal infections
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Lyme disease
  • Lymph node infections

Loyola’s pediatric infectious disease specialists work as an integrated team with your child’s pediatrician, as well as family medicine doctors, nurses, mental health workers and critical care specialists. Our team will create a personalized treatment plan for your child.

If your family is planning a trip abroad to a country with a greater incidence of infectious diseases, Loyola’s doctors can provide the immunizations recommended for travel and expert advice to help keep your family safe while traveling abroad.

Why Choose Loyola for Pediatric Infectious Diseases?

Loyola is committed to the compassionate diagnosis and care of our youngest patients with infectious diseases. Loyola’s pediatric infectious disease team is specially trained in the treatment of children and provides care in a compassionate, family-friendly environment.

Our clinicians welcome families to be involved in all aspects of diagnosis, treatment and recovery; they are available to answer any questions and address any concerns you might have.

Loyola’s fellowship-trained specialists are regionally recognized as experts in the rapidly changing field of infectious diseases. They regularly receive referrals from other doctors and consult with pediatricians and other clinicians around the Chicago area on cases with complex bacterial, fungal and viral infections.

Loyola’s pediatric infectious disease specialists are active in educating parents and teachers on ways to keep children safe from infectious diseases, including frequently washing hands, getting vaccinated, staying home when sick and preparing food safely.

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