The Lifestyle Clinic For Your Child
Balancing Hormones from
Childhood to Adolescence !
Understanding Stages of Growth !
There are periods of fast growth and then slowed growth during the journey from childhood to adolescence.
Growth charts are:
The best way to monitor a child's growth.
Stages of Growth:
First 1 year : growth of 2 cm/month
1-2 years: 1 cm/month.
2-3 years: 6-7cm/yr
Childhood (2-7 yrs): 5-6 cm/year.
Adolescence: 8-10 cm/year
The Caterpillar Is Now A Beautiful Butterfly !
Teenagers are ready to take on the world, seeking independence and starting to take decisions.
The challenges of puberty:
- Peer pressure.
- Early Puberty : before 8 years in girls.
- Late Puberty: after 13 years in girls.
- Irregular Periods, Excess body hair can be a result of Hormonal imbalances.
Your Young Champ Is Growing To Be A Man !
The risk taking, the aggression at the same time independence comes along with it.
The challenges of puberty:
- Parents and boys often get anxious when they enter puberty late compared to their peers.
- Late puberty: after 14 years of age for boys.
- Early puberty: before 9 years of age for boys.
The Practice
More About Our Specialist !
Dr. (Mrs.) Sumeet Arora is an American Board Certified Pediatric Endocrinologist with a vast clinical experience in managing children and teenagers with hormonal problems including growth, puberty related disorders, childhood diabetes, weight management and metabolic syndrome, PCOD and pituitary and adrenal disorders.
With a strong academic background, clinical acumen and compassion towards children and adolescents, Dr. Arora is loved by her patients and their families.
Her clinical focus includes managing children with diabetes and using advanced technology for diabetes management in the form of insulin pumps as well as up-to-date management of growth and puberty related disorders.
Current role and responsibilities include:
- Heading the division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Artemis Hospitals, a renowned tertiary care hospitals in Gurgaon, Haryana, India catering to patient population not only from Haryana but all over India as well as Internationally. Dr. Arora's responsibilities expand to establishing protocols in managing children and teenagers with endocrine disorders as well as teaching residents and actively participating in research activities.
- Growth, Puberty and Diabetes Clinic At
ArBor Multispeciality Clinic, Gurgaon
- ISPAE IDEAL Diabetes EDUCATOR Course Faculty
Growth, Puberty & Diabetes Clinic (Newborn to 21 years old)
"Your Strength Lies Within You, Not In Your External Appearance." - Dr. Sumeet Arora
The above quote is a reminder that children and teenagers need a positive mind frame to build a strong self-esteem.
This lifestyle clinic designed to cater to children and teenagers with hormonal problems from newborn to 21 years of age, with a goal of preventive health strategies in those children with lifestyle related disorders like excess weight, PCOD like features with irregular periods, excess facial hair and acne and metabolic syndrome.
Specialty Clinics for Hormonal Disorders:
1. Growth clinic for height related disorders.
2. Puberty Clinic for boys and girls.
3. Diabetes clinic (Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes) for children and teenagers
4. Weight management and PCOD Clinic
When to See a Pediatric & Adolescent Endocrinologist?
Puberty Related Concerns:
If your daughter is experiencing early puberty before 8 yrs of age or your son has puberty related changes before 9 yrs.
If your daughter hasn't started her periods by 13 yrs.
If your son, hasn't had puberty related changes by 14 yrs. of age.
Height Concern:
Your child is not growing as per the family height.
Your child is the shortest in the class.
There is no change in shoe size or clothes size every year.
Weight Concern:
Your child is not gaining weight as per the growth chart or is losing weight.
Your child has gained significant amount of weight not matching the height gain.
BMI is above the 85th percentile as plotted on the growth chart.
Diabetes Symptoms:
Excessive urination and weight loss could be symptoms of diabetes.
If random blood sugar done is more than 200 or an HbA1C is >=6.5, then it is Diabetes.
If HbA1C is between 5.7 and 6.4, then it is considered as prediabetes.
Experience and Professionalism
With years of experience, our medical team will assess you and create a customized treatment strategy that's right for your child and your family. We understand the importance of educating you on the most effective ways to take care of your body, so that you can optimize your kids hormones well as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle long term.
SERVICES/SPECIALTIES:
- Diabetes clinic
- Weight management clinic
- Puberty Clinic
- PCOD Clinic for Adolescents
- Pituitary disorders
- Growth Clinic
- Adrenal disorders
- Problems with formation of genitalia
- Thyroid disorders
PROCEDURES:
- Stimulation tests
- Insulin Pumps and CGMS
- HCG Stimulation test