Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Hi everyone! I have a question, and, again, I may be jumping the gun here, as we still don't have Annie's results yet. She had her blood drawn on Wednesday, and I am not so patiently waiting to see if she made antibodies to the prevnar vaccine his time. But my question: The kids pulmo is listed under " pediatric allergy and immunology. " So, does that mean he an immunologist also?? There is no pediatric immunology section alone, but there are pediatric infectious disease doctors. I hate to sound stupid, but I just do not know. We have been seeing this doctor for 11 years because of my oldest son's asthma, and my other 2 have since been dx with asthma. He is a pulmo, but I don't know about the immunologist part. My 14yo does have an appt. with him Monday, so I have lots of questions anyway. I will just have to add yet another, unless anyone thinks I shouldn't. Any insight?? Thank you for your help and patience! Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Meg, It could be that your pulmo is the closest thing to an immuno in your area. Where I live, the infectious disease doc is the main person at the state children's hospital that does IVIG. He used to do our IVIG. We don't have a ped immuno dept there at all. There is one ped allergist elsewhere that reportedly sees patients for immuno issues. We chose to take Calvin to another hospital out of state to get a " real " immuno.....actually it is an excellent multi-doctor immuno practice in a teaching/children's hospital. We tried a part-time moon-lighting allergy doc first here at home and it did not work out.....he was unable to provide satisfactory care. I would imagine that in the yellow pages that docs could list a secondary specialty, if no on is available in that area otherwise. The ID doc at the children's hospital here does all the IVIG so he ends up acting as an immuno too. I think he does specialize in AIDS research....which would lap over into immune deficiency issues. That's all Fisher mom of Calvin, 5yo, XLA megoonie99 <megoonie99@...> wrote: Hi everyone! I have a question, and, again, I may be jumping the gun here, as we still don't have Annie's results yet. She had her blood drawn on Wednesday, and I am not so patiently waiting to see if she made antibodies to the prevnar vaccine his time. But my question: The kids pulmo is listed under " pediatric allergy and immunology. " So, does that mean he an immunologist also?? There is no pediatric immunology section alone, but there are pediatric infectious disease doctors. I hate to sound stupid, but I just do not know. We have been seeing this doctor for 11 years because of my oldest son's asthma, and my other 2 have since been dx with asthma. He is a pulmo, but I don't know about the immunologist part. My 14yo does have an appt. with him Monday, so I have lots of questions anyway. I will just have to add yet another, unless anyone thinks I shouldn't. Any insight?? Thank you for your help and patience! Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Meg, It could be that your pulmo is the closest thing to an immuno in your area. Where I live, the infectious disease doc is the main person at the state children's hospital that does IVIG. He used to do our IVIG. We don't have a ped immuno dept there at all. There is one ped allergist elsewhere that reportedly sees patients for immuno issues. We chose to take Calvin to another hospital out of state to get a " real " immuno.....actually it is an excellent multi-doctor immuno practice in a teaching/children's hospital. We tried a part-time moon-lighting allergy doc first here at home and it did not work out.....he was unable to provide satisfactory care. I would imagine that in the yellow pages that docs could list a secondary specialty, if no on is available in that area otherwise. The ID doc at the children's hospital here does all the IVIG so he ends up acting as an immuno too. I think he does specialize in AIDS research....which would lap over into immune deficiency issues. That's all Fisher mom of Calvin, 5yo, XLA megoonie99 <megoonie99@...> wrote: Hi everyone! I have a question, and, again, I may be jumping the gun here, as we still don't have Annie's results yet. She had her blood drawn on Wednesday, and I am not so patiently waiting to see if she made antibodies to the prevnar vaccine his time. But my question: The kids pulmo is listed under " pediatric allergy and immunology. " So, does that mean he an immunologist also?? There is no pediatric immunology section alone, but there are pediatric infectious disease doctors. I hate to sound stupid, but I just do not know. We have been seeing this doctor for 11 years because of my oldest son's asthma, and my other 2 have since been dx with asthma. He is a pulmo, but I don't know about the immunologist part. My 14yo does have an appt. with him Monday, so I have lots of questions anyway. I will just have to add yet another, unless anyone thinks I shouldn't. Any insight?? Thank you for your help and patience! Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Thank you, ! I appreciate you answering this for me. I do remember that , Conner's mom, said that they had been to the Cleveland Clinic. My oldest sees an endocrinologist there, and it's only about an hour away, so that's certainly feasible if that's where we are headed .... I don't remember his name though, and do not remember seeing any ped. immuno's on our ins. list online .... There were some infectious deisease doctors at the Clinic on our ins., though, so, so, so.... Thanks again! Meg, mom to , 14, asthma, allergies, growth hormone def. , 10, asthma, allergies, Annie, 7 asthma, allergies, low pneumo titers is all we know for now! > > Hi everyone! I have a question, and, again, I may be jumping the gun > here, as we still don't have Annie's results yet. She had her blood > drawn on Wednesday, and I am not so patiently waiting to see if she made > antibodies to the prevnar vaccine his time. > > But my question: The kids pulmo is listed under " pediatric allergy and > immunology. " So, does that mean he an immunologist also?? There is no > pediatric immunology section alone, but there are pediatric infectious > disease doctors. I hate to sound stupid, but I just do not know. We > have been seeing this doctor for 11 years because of my oldest son's > asthma, and my other 2 have since been dx with asthma. He is a pulmo, > but I don't know about the immunologist part. My 14yo does have an > appt. with him Monday, so I have lots of questions anyway. I will just > have to add yet another, unless anyone thinks I shouldn't. > > Any insight?? Thank you for your help and patience! > > Meg > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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