Specialist Care for Children’s Gut, Liver and Nutrition Needs
Digestive and feeding concerns may affect a child’s comfort, appetite, growth, sleep, and daily routines.
Gut, Liver & Nutrition care helps families understand whether symptoms such as constipation, reflux, tummy pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, poor weight gain, or feeding discomfort may need closer assessment.
Common Gut, Liver & Nutrition Concerns
Children may benefit from specialist assessment when digestive, liver, feeding or growth concerns are persistent, recurrent or affecting daily life.
Common conditions and concerns include:
- Constipation in Children
- Reflux in Babies and Children
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Gastritis and Stomach Ulcers
- H. pylori Infection
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Coeliac Disease
- Vomiting in Children
- Chronic Diarrhoea
- Feeding Difficulties
- Liver Disorders in Children
- Chronic Liver Disease
- Poor Weight Gain or Growth Faltering
- Food Allergy-Related Gut Symptoms
Assessment, Tests & Care Options
Care is tailored to your child’s age, symptoms, growth pattern and clinical needs.
Gut, liver and nutrition assessment and care may include:
- Nutrition Assessment
- Growth Monitoring
- Feeding and Diet Review
- Constipation Management
- Reflux Management
- Liver Function Tests and Monitoring
- Paediatric Endoscopy
- Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD)
- Colonoscopy
- 24-Hour Gastric pH Monitoring
- Liver Transplant Follow-Up
When to Consider Specialist Advice
A gut, liver or nutrition review may be helpful when symptoms are persistent, recurrent or affecting your child’s growth and wellbeing.
You may wish to seek advice if your child:
- Has constipation that does not improve or keeps returning
- Experiences frequent reflux, vomiting or feeding discomfort
- Has repeated tummy pain, bloating or changes in bowel habits
- Is not gaining weight or growing as expected
- Has concerns related to liver health or abnormal test results
If symptoms are severe, worsening or your child appears unwell, please seek medical advice promptly.
Common Questions
A specialist review may be helpful when digestive symptoms are persistent, recurrent or affecting feeding, growth, comfort or daily routines.
Yes. Constipation is common in children. Assessment may be helpful if it is persistent, painful, recurrent, or affecting appetite, sleep, or daily routines.
Some reflux can be common in babies. Review may be helpful if reflux is frequent, painful, affects feeding, or is linked to poor weight gain.
This service is more suitable when feeding, growth, or nutrition concerns may be linked to digestive symptoms, liver concerns, or medical causes.
Yes. Endoscopy, including OGD and colonoscopy, may be considered when clinically appropriate based on the child’s symptoms and assessment.
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