Polianska Olena Anatoliivna

Work experience: 36 years

Education:

• Bogomolets National Medical University, honours degree

Areas of professional development:

• Knowledge of foreign English;
• six-month internship in Germany;
• advanced training courses;
• additional specialty: gastroenterologist, anesthesiologist and physiatrist degree;
• regular participant of conferences on pediatrics in Ukraine and annual Congress of Pediatricians;
• interview in the media: on “1+1”, Dobro-TV TV channels on intestinal dysbiosis, education of children, the first year of a child’s life;
• reading of medical periodicals on pediatrics, study of Internet resources, sharing experiences with colleagues;
• visiting of lectures within Pediatric Association.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• treatment of children in outpatient and inpatient;
• medical support of infants;
• management of children with digestive diseases;
• allergic dermatitis;
• pediatric gastroenterology;
• management of frequently and for a long time ill children.
• ‘I work with infants from the first year of life, patients with skin problems, allergies, atopic dermatitis and gastroenterological diseases.’
• ‘The peculiarity of a pediatrician’s work is that patient himself does not complain about anything. Most often a child can show parents and pediatrician that something disturbs him just by crying and screaming. We need to understand what hurts and find an approach to a child, so he allows to be examined.’
• ‘Pediatrician can determine a daily routine for a child, monitor gaining of weight, his physical development and prescribe a supplemental feeding and vitamins necessary for a proper growth of a baby.’
• ‘Nowadays, number of sick children has increased. They began to get sick more often too. If in earlier days the health index, i.e. number of visits to a pediatrician due to illness, was 3-4 visits for children older than one year, now a child is not considered to be frequently ill, if number of his visits to pediatrician is 6-8 times a year. This is due to environmental conditions, nutrition (many of today’s products contain antibiotics, pesticides, etc.), as well as a psychological climate in family, which is reflected on a child.’

Doctor's advice:

• ‘The first year of a child’s life is important to manage correctly. Keep a healthy lifestyle, choose a proper nutrition for a child and observe the rules of supplemental feeding – all this will allow a child to grow up healthy. These measures also allow children with chronic or hereditary diseases to avoid development and acquisition of new diseases.’
• ‘Be sure to show your child to a doctor if he starts vomiting, got fever, violations of behavioral features and diarrhea appeared etc.’