Our Services
Discover our range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of children dealing with allergies. Compass Kids Clinic is dedicated to providing top-quality care.
Fees & Costs
At Compass Kids Clinic, we prioritize transparency in our fees. As a private-billing clinic, we offer specialized services unavailable elsewhere in Queensland. Our fee structure is detailed on our Compass Immunology Clinic website, ensuring you have the essential information. We value your trust and here to support your child's health.
Specialized Care
At Compass Kids Clinic, our dedicated team of pediatric allergy and immunology specialists is here to provide compassionate and personalized care for your child. With all our doctors holding postgraduate qualifications in allergy, we ensure that your little one receives expert attention. We prioritize comprehensive treatments tailored to meet each child's unique needs, helping them thrive and enjoy a healthier life.
Treatment Plans
At Compass Kids Clinic, we develop customized treatment plans for each child to ensure the best possible outcomes. Our holistic approach considers medical, emotional, and developmental aspects, providing personalized care for every young patient.
Conditions and their managment
Compass Kids Clinic is a branch of Compass Immunology Clinics, and this represents Queensland’s largest private medical specialist clinic dedicated to treating allergic and immunologic disorders. Since our establishment in 2005, we have grown into a multidisciplinary clinic, offering comprehensive services including treatments not offered elsewhere. We remain a family owned and managed business. With locations Greenslopes, Grange, Upper Mount Gravatt, and Toowoomba, our expert clinicians are here to provide specialized diagnosis and management for allergies, autoimmune disorders, and immune deficiencies. Your child's health is our priority.
Eczema Care
Eczema management is an essential aspect of managing children with allergic disease. We are highly skilled in providing tailored therapy with options to escalate as required. The correct care of eczema can reduce the progression and severity of allergic diseases, including food allergies and asthma.
Food allergy
We have extensive expertise in the accurate diagnosis and management of food allergies. We perform skin prick testing on children (from 6 months of age) and offer food challenges to clarify allergies when needed. If you think your child has a food allergy, it is extremely important to see a clinic that can investigate with formal oral food challenges if needed.
Drug allergy
Your child can have an allergy to any kind of drug, but some medicines are more likely to cause a reaction than others.
The drugs that most commonly cause an allergic reaction are:
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Antibiotics such as penicillin
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Pain relief or anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen or paracetamol
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Insulin
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Vaccines
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Anti-seizure medications
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Chemotherapy drugs
Correct diagnosis is important.
Drug allergies are only investigated by our Immunologists.
Allergic rhinitis
We can help you understand the triggers for your child's allergic rhinitis (hayfever) and how to intervene. Treatments include nasal sprays, oral medications and desensitization therapies.
Autoimmune disease and immunodeficiencies
Our Paediatric Immunologists investigate and treat recurrent infections, autoimmune conditions, autoinflammatory conditions including periodic fever syndromes, and inborn errors of immunity/immunodeficiency
Chronic Urticaria
Not all chronic urticaria is due to specific allergy. It can arise from alterations to your immune system's response to various other stressors. We will help navigate a clearer diagnosis and provide solutions for treatments depending on severity.
Peanut OIT (desensitization)
Our clinic is one of the few private clinics offering peanut desensitization. Our successful program started in 2018 and continues with selected children aged 8 years or younger. It is always best to begin peanut OIT as young as possible to provide a smoother path.
If you would like to learn more about our program, please see our peanut OIT page.
Other biologic drug injections
Biologic medications are drugs that target specific parts of your immune system to treat disease. These innovative therapies are evolving the care for asthma, nasal polyps, severe eczema, chronic urticaria, and food allergies.
Immunotherapy is a process of training your immune system to increase tolerance. This is an effective treatment for environmental allergies (dust mite, grass pollen and animal danders). Venom allergies (bee, wasp) can also be treated in a similar way.
Immunotherapy injections
Dupixent injections
Dupixent is PBS listed for children over 12 years of age with severe eczema. For younger children, the medication can be offered privately.