2023-08-22 08:13:00
Yoon Jong-seo, director of Kitap Pediatrics and Adolescent Clinic, “A treatment that explains the growth of children”
Explosion of patients due to Corona 19… Visiting a medical institution is important, but managing eating habits is more important
“Instead of a medical school professor, I will help children suffering from developmental disabilities such as precocious puberty to grow up properly at a low-level ‘neighborhood clinic’.”
The pediatric treatment crisis is in full swing in Korea to the extent that so-called ‘open runs’ and ‘closed runs’ occur in front-line pediatric hospitals and clinics. It has become a world where it is difficult to get our children properly treated when they need it, even for mild diseases. Furthermore, it is even more difficult to receive treatment for severe diseases such as ‘precocious puberty’, in which children go through puberty sooner due to hormonal abnormalities. You may have to wait several years to receive precocious puberty treatment at a university hospital.
Especially in Korea, the prevalence of precocious puberty among children and adolescents is rapidly increasing. In addition to overnutrition and lack of exercise, it is analyzed that overweight and obesity have worsened due to the Corona 19 pandemic. In the case of boys, the prevalence of precocious puberty increased 83.3 times from 1.2 to 100 per 100,000 population between 2008 and 2020, far exceeding the increase rate (16 times) for girls during the same period.
A former medical school professor who abandoned his position as a professor at the department of pediatrics at a university hospital and chose to open a clinic at the same time when management of pediatric medical institutions is getting more and more difficult day by day even though pediatric doctors are getting more and more difficult, leading to the closure of small clinics. There is attention.
The main character is Yun Jong-seo, director of Kitap Pediatric Clinic.<사진>. Until last May, Director Yoon served as a professor of pediatric endocrinology at the Department of Pediatrics at Gangdong Sacred Heart Hospital affiliated with Hallym University College of Medicine. He was responsible for clinical, research, and education of diseases, etc.
In Director Yoon’s specific field of specialization, it is most important for an experienced doctor to understand how a child’s growth is flowing through sufficient explanations, understand the flow through follow-up observation, and guide how he or she grows. However, since he is a professor, he said that he clearly had limitations in taking care of the patients he met in the clinic following waiting for a long time.
“In fact, it is very difficult to find a medical treatment that explains the flow of a child’s growth at a time like this. There is also so much misinformation regarding child growth that parents are confused. So, I want to help more of our children grow up right through the opening of a school with a low threshold.”
On the 24th, Director Yoon met with the doctor newspaper at the recently opened Kitap Pediatric Clinic in Munjeong-dong, Seoul and revealed the reason for his opening.
According to him, many of the patients and their parents who visited the hospital for growth problems still do not know what kind of treatment they chose or why they chose it. Sometimes, it is said that there are not a few cases where people think, ‘Since others are treating my child, I need to treat my child too’.
Director Yoon emphasized, “At this time, I will do my best to act as a so-called ‘assistant doctor’ who helps the patient and guardian to decide on treatment related to growth and advice so that they can think and judge on their own.” did.
Director Yoon reminded that not only visiting medical institutions is important, but also managing children’s eating habits is important. He said, “I eat junk food such as ramen, snacks, chicken, pizza, hamburgers, drinks, chocolate, candy, bread, ice cream, and jelly without hesitation, so my body fat increases above the standard, causing my growth plates to close quickly, as well as premature puberty. He said, “Management of eating habits is particularly effective in preventing precocious puberty, so visits to medical institutions are important, but special attention and practice are needed.”
In particular, he added, “The first thing to prevent precocious puberty and height loss is to reduce junk food.”
Director Yoon Jong-seo said, “For the correct treatment of precocious puberty, it is very important that the doctor is a pediatric endocrinologist and has proper diagnostic equipment. We will try to provide opportunities for higher quality treatment to patients by resolving the regrettable part of not being able to care for them in close proximity through the opening of the clinic.”
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