Children & Adolescents Wellness Visits
Making sure your kids and teens stay healthy is a top priority for the doctors and highly trained medical staff at Provida Family Medicine.
As your children grow, they will go through many changes in both body and mind. The best way to maintain a child or teen’s health is through regular wellness visits.
A well visit for a child or teen is check-up for any child under the age of 18. These visits are incredibly important to maintaining a patient’s health because they allow your healthcare providers to track the yearly progress of your child’s growth and health.
Wellness visits give your provider the chance to discuss vaccinations, nutrition, behavior, normal stages of development and other age appropriate topics If your child or teen is falling behind in any categories of normal development, early notice can help ensure that your child gets back on track.
Through regular well-child and well-teen visits, we support your children as they grow and change to maintain their well-being and address difficulties they face.
Wellness and Prevention: Staying Healthy
Maintaining a proper diet is essential to the health of your child’s health.
With our on-site dietician and credentialed diabetic educator, you can schedule an appointment to discuss your child’s eating habits and develop a nutrition plan that is individually tailored to your child’s needs. These treatments can be simple lifestyle changes or medication, addressing nutritional health.
Nutrition
Maintaining a proper diet is essential to the health of your child’s health.
With our on-site dietician and credentialed diabetic educator, Monica Gonzalez, you can schedule an appointment to discuss your child’s eating habits and develop a nutrition plan that is individually tailored to your child’s needs. These treatments can be simple lifestyle changes or medication, with Monica helps meet goals while addressing current health issues and preventing any future medical problems.
Exercise
Regular exercise helps a children and teens build and maintain strong bones and muscles for long-term health, reducing issues like anxiety and depression. Inactivity can also lead to obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
Our healthcare team can advise on the level of activity for your child to stay healthy and stay active.
Sleep
Just like nutrition or exercise, sleep, is another crucial aspect of your child or teen’s development. Maintaining a proper sleep schedule is critical to their, well-being. Kids and teens generally need 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night. Due to many external factors, many don’t get the sleep they need to stay well.
At Provida, Our healthcare providers can monitor for any sleep difficulties which may affect your child or teen.
Sports & School Physicals
Whether it’s your yearly physical or a sports physical, Provida Family Medicine can perform the required physical.
At these physicals, a provider will do a complete check of your child’s blood pressure, weight and height, lungs, heart, eyes, ears, and beyond.
Unscheduled Appointments
We encourage all patients to schedule follow-up visits, regular check-ups, and wellness visits in advance to best serve you.
Since you can’t predict when your child will get an earache or catch a cold, we encourage you to visit our online schedule for availabilities to see a provider when you need to.
If your child or teen has a life-threatening injury or is having a serious allergic reaction, please call 9-1-1. As soon as you or a family member is able, call our office so that we may follow up with the hospital or emergency department.
You can contact us here or call (847) 548-2200 today.