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WHEN YOU NEED URGENCY BUT NOT EMERGENCY

Snap Paediatrics has established its reputation on the Sunshine Coast for providing families with rapid access specialist Paediatric care. We are growing our range of services to include:

🩺 General Paediatric Standard Consults, with a focus on medical concerns
❗ Urgent Care Consults for when your child is sick
🤱 Perinatal Consults for new mums and babies
❤️‍🩹 Allied Health support

🩺 Standard Consults

We have a growing team of caring Paediatricians who provide thorough assessment and comprehensive management plans for all medical Paediatric concerns. By focusing on medical concerns, we are able to book an appointment for your child within two weeks of referral or phone call. Our paediatricians are available to provide normal baby checks. We know there is also a large demand for behavioural and developmental concerns, which we hope to address in the future.

❗ Urgent Care Consults

We offer 30 minute appointments with a Paediatric Specialist when your child is unexpectedly unwell. We know it can be difficult to find an appointment with your regular family GP when your child is sick. Maybe your holiday to the beautiful Sunshine Coast has been disrupted by your child’s illness. Having to spend hours waiting in an Emergency Department, only adds to the stress of having a child who is unwell, so we are offering an alternative. You can book an Urgent Care Consult online, right now!

🤱 Perinatal Consults

We have a general practitioner and qualified International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with a special interest in newborn health, feeding support and allergies. This service offers support for both mother and child in breastfeeding or infant feeding difficulties (this includes all forms of infant feeding), unsettled babies, infant allergy concerns including eczema and food intolerances, solid introduction, paediatric feeding concerns e.g. selective eating, anxious mealtimes and perinatal mental health.

❤️‍🩹 Allied Health Support

We have a growing team of experienced Paediatric Allied Health clinicians supporting our Sunshine Coast familes at Snap Paediatrics. Allied Health services at Snap include Dieticians specialising in allergy and neurodiversity (ASD and ADHD) and Psychology providing cognitive, educational and ADHD/ASD assessments.

 

✔ Prompt

For Urgent Care Consults, we will see your child the same or next clinic day. For Standard Consults, covering more detailed or long stading concerns, we aim to see you within a fortnight.

✔ Hassle free

We like referrals, but we can see you without a referral too.

✔ Hand-in-hand

We work with your GP (and other specialists) to ensure your child is improving with coordinated care.

COMMON ThIngs WE TreAT

 

Respiratory Illness

 

❗ Acute cough
❗Suspected chest infection
❗Bronchiolitis
❗Mild-moderate croup
❗Mild asthma attacks

🩺 Chronic cough and wheeze
🩺 Concerns about frequent or recurrent asthma episodes

See your nearest Emergency Department if your child:
✘ is abnormally drowsy, floppy or confused
✘ has mottled, pale, or cold skin or has a non-blanching rash
✘ has significantly laboured/effortful breathing or stridor (noisy breath in) at rest

Fevers & Infections

 

❗Fever
❗Sore throat
❗Ear pain
❗Skin infections
❗Urinary tract infections

See your nearest Emergency Department if your child:
✘ is abnormally drowsy, floppy or confused
✘ has mottled, pale, blue or cold skin or has a non-blanching rash
✘ is less than three months old with a fever

Headaches

 

❗Minor Head Injury

🩺 Tension or stress headaches
🩺 Migraines
🩺 Post-Concussion Syndrome

See your nearest Emergency Department if your child:
✘ has a severe headache
✘ has lost consciousness or is continuously vomiting after a head injury
✘ has symptoms that are not responding to simple pain relief

Gastroenteritis & Tummy Troubles

 

❗Acute abdominal pain
❗Vomiting and/or diarrhoea

🩺 Chronic abdominal pain
🩺 Food sensitivities/allergies
🩺 Constipation
🩺 Toileting problems
🩺 Night-time accidents

See your nearest Emergency Department if your child:
✘ is dehydrated with a dry mouth and tongue
✘ is drowsy or not waking up to drink
✘ is unable to walk due to severe abdominal pain (especially with fever)
✘ is abnormally drowsy or not waking up to drink

Minor Injuries

 

❗Sprains and strains

✘ Deformed or bent bones
✘ Significantly swollen joint

If you’re unsure, we recommend visiting your nearest Emergency Department as they have the necessary equipment to rule out serious injury.

Simple Seizures

 

🩺 Follow up after first-time seizure
🩺 Febrile convulsions

✘ Epilepsy requiring medication management
✘ Not back to normal baseline after seizure

If the condition is new to you, or you’re just unsure, we recommend visiting your nearest Emergency Department as soon as possible.

Rashes

 

Rashes

❗Viral rashes

🩺 Eczema
🩺 Mild allergies
🩺 Birthmarks

✘ See your nearest Emergency Department for fever with a non-blanching rash (ie. a rash that doesn’t go away fully when pressed).

 

Infant & Newborn Concerns

 

🩺🤱 Feeding difficulties
🩺🤱 Unsettled baby
🩺 Reflux
🩺 Poor weight gain
🩺 Jaundice
🩺 Baby check
🩺🤱 Infant allergies
🤱 Breast/bottle feeding concerns
🤱 Solid introduction
🤱 Maternal mental health

✘ See your nearest Emergency Department for fevers in infants less than 3 months old.

 

NoTE

Some conditions really should be seen to immediately. In order to provide prompt service we cannot treat the following:

 

✘ Severe illness or injury (life or limb threatening – call 000)

✘ Conditions best treated in the Emergency Department

✘ Developmental assessment and management

✘ Behavioural concerns and management

✘ Writing prescriptions for ADHD/behavioural medications

 

If it is not an Emergency but you are unsure if your child is suitable to be seen in a Snap, please call or email our friendly staff.

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Our goal is to ensure a child’s condition doesn't hang around long enough to change shape.