Our team serves children with a variety of conditions, including:
We also provide comprehensive testing and services for children with allergies:
- Skin prick and intradermal tests with commercial and customised allergy extracts
- Oral food challenges and desensitisation procedures
- Drug challenges and desensitisation procedures
- Immunotherapy (Sublingual and Subcutaneous)
Asthma
We have a comprehensive children's asthma service that manages both inpatients as well as outpatients. Our holistic asthma programme includes detailed diagnosis as well as treatment and thorough education and counselling. We have facilities to perform lung function tests, which include:
- Spirometry
- Exercise-stress tests
- Exhaled nitric oxide evaluation
- Inspiratory and expiratory muscle strength measurement using Respiratory Pressure Meter
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Immunology Service
We are a referral centre in Singapore which provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic tests in immune deficiency including measuring immunoglobulin levels, vaccine responses, lymphocyte subsets, lympho-proliferative tests, neutrophil function tests and cytokine measurements. We have successfully transplanted children with complex primary immune deficiencies such as Chronic Granulomatous Disease, Hyper-IgM syndrome and Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1.
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Immunotherapy
We offer immunotherapy to treat allergic conditions such as allergy to house dust mites, horse dander, insect stings as well as food allergy such as peanut allergy in children.
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Food Allergy and
Allergic Rhinitis.