Paediatrics

The children's hospital aims to provide high-quality comprehensive care for your child, from newborn to adolescent. This includes attention to specific needs per age and long-term follow-up and guidance.

Appointments

Pain in children

We make every effort to prevent pain in patients. With children, we make extra efforts to prevent them from suffering trauma or becoming chronic pain patients later in life.

We use all kinds of child-sized tools for this, ranging from anaesthetic plasters to virtual reality glasses that distract children during painful procedures.

Hospitalisation wards

In the day hospital, children come to the hospital for a day for certain therapies and tests that require some preparation (e.g. sedation, IV line, etc.).
The disciplines of cardiology, nephrology, urology, metabolic diseases, organ transplantation and general infant care are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).
The disciplines of oncological diseases and stem cell transplantation are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).
The disciplines of infectious diseases, pulmonary diseases and cystic fibrosis are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).
The disciplines of gastroenterological, haematological and immunological disorders are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).
The disciplines of neurology, EEG monitoring, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, endocrinology-diabetes, general paediatrics, liaison paediatric psychiatry, rheumatology and miscellaneous surgery are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).
The disciplines of preferential pathology zoning, paediatric neurology, rehabilitation, paediatric rheumatology, paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, orthopaedics and traumatology are housed at this hospitalisation unit of the children's hospital (ages 0 to 16 years).

Address

UZ Leuven gasthuisberg campus
Kindergeneeskunde
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Last edit: 9 december 2024