The branch of Kaumarabhritya deals with every aspect of child rearing including nutritional care, proper growth and development, social and emotional aspects of a child’s wellbeing. Care for babies from their birth to 16 years are imparted in the Department’s OP facility by providing routine health care to children, improving their immunity and school performance. 

The department deals with all childhood diseases including Fever, Cough, Asthma, Recurrent infections, Abdominal pain, Diarrhoea, Worm infestation, Anaemia, Underweight, Obesity, Skin diseases etc. with special thrust to developmental and behavioral disorders including Cerebral palsy, Autism, ADHD, Down’s syndrome, Mental retardation etc.    
The department also has a well-developed IP Department with full-fledged Panchakarma facilities for various diseases of Childhood. Physiotherapy services are also available for various developmental disorders.    

CLINICAL TRAINING AND HOSPITAL ACTIVITIES
We at Amrita Ayurveda College handle kids of all age groups from just born to early teens. Mostly the cases are chronic but we do manage acute conditions as well in our OPD.    
Some of the most common ailments we deal are  

• Recurrent Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (RURTI) which comes under Peenasam and Pratishyayam. Mostly RURTI are managed in OPD. Initially the children are treated to relieve the acute symptoms and once subsided, they are managed for enhancing the immunity and thereby preventing further infections. Many of our patients who were regular with antibiotics and cold and cough medications are now leading a normal healthy life with minimal rasayana drugs like koosmandavaleha or Agasthya rasayana to maintain the immunity or no drugs at all. With a small “home remedy kit” at home most of our patients do well with minimal or no school absenteeism.  
• Various skin disorders from various dermatitis, eczema, scabies, erysipelas etc. Prolonged treatments are required in some of these conditions with long history and they often require in patient care. Less chronic and less severe cases can be very well managed with excellent degree of permanence in outpatient department itself. Contrary to adults, the diet restrictions in skin diseases are much easier than adults and hence the success rates are impressively high and fast.
• Gastro intestinal disorders ranging from lack of appetite to chronic diarrhea and constipation can be easily managed with very effective and safe medicines in Ayurveda. With proper dietary advises which are very crucial in forming the right base for a healthy adulthood, Ayurveda can manage the digestive disorders better than sister medical systems. Poor digestive capacity and constipation are increasingly seen in children below 7 years in our country in the past decade. Certain conditions like ulcerative colitis and hyper acidity issues are best managed with suitable Ayurveda medicines. 
• Developmental disorders and certain birth trauma complications are also an area where Ayurveda medicines can do quite effective management when started at the right age using the right strategy. A wide range of such disorders like Cerebral Palsy, Muscular dystrophies and disorders, Bell’s Palsy, Paraplegic and hemiplegic cases etc. are also managed well using various Panchakarma and poorva karma procedures. It is again misbelieved that Procedure based therapies cannot be applied for little children. But most of the procedure-based treatments can be applied also to children with suitable modifications and right instruments under the supervision of a qualified Ayurveda Pediatrician. We are currently managing cases of Cerebral palsy, para plegia, hemiplegia and effectively with marked improvement in quality of life and symptoms which are best in such cases in any medical systems. 
• Behavioral disorders and psycho-neuro disorders like ADD, ADHD, Autism, Delayed development, learning disorders etc. using multi-disciplinary approach by the combined supervision of our Psychiatry department (Manasa roga) and Dept of Pediatrics (bala roga).Special medications are prepared for the purpose of managing various developmental and behavioral disorders in Amrita Life under the direction and supervision of these two departments. 
• Chronic conditions like Asthma are also effectively managed using classical Ayurveda techniques in our IP and OP departments.