The teenage years involve a lot of growth and development which can be affected by many factors such as poor dietary choices, erratic sleep, stress, recurrent antibiotic use, gut issues, and possible environmental toxins. At Healing Family Functional Medicine – North Carolina, Rajal Patel, MD, MPH, IFMCP, specializes in helping your child optimize their health using a holistic functional medicine approach, which involves nutritional counseling, lifestyle modifications, gut microbiome testing, food sensitivity testing, vitamin and mineral testing, and other in-depth evaluations if needed. Call Healing Family Functional Medicine – North Carolina to book a teen health consultation.

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Dr. Patel provides care for children 13 years and older. She uses functional medicine strategies to consider all factors that influence your child’s well-being. She assesses aspects like their gut health, food sensitivities and food allergies, vitamin testing, as well as the impact of nutrition, lifestyle, and stress. She cares for children struggling with but not limited to:

  • Chronic abdominal pain
  • Chronic headaches and migraines
  • Asthma
  • Acne
  • Environmental and food allergies
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Recurrent infections
  • Obesity
  • ADHD
  • PMS

What happens during a teen care visit?

Ahead of your teen care visit at Healing Family Functional Medicine NC, you will complete forms that entail your child’s journey, developmental history, family history, nutrition, and environmental exposure.

This information helps Dr. Patel customize a program specific to your child’s needs. Dr. Patel does a thorough evaluation of your child’s journey and will order lab work and other diagnostic studies to help understand what the root cause(s) of your child’s problem is. Dr. Patel provides education on how to improve health using nutrition, sleep, stress management, physical activity, as well as how to clean up the environment surrounding the teen.