Dr Rajiv Sood

Qualifications

MBBS, DCH, MRCP, FRCP, FRCPCH, PG Cert Allergy

GMC number: 4063164

Practising since: 1980

Specialties

Paediatrics

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About

Dr Sood is an allergy specialist and treats food allergy, nuts allergy, skin eczema, respiratory allergy, urticaria, angioedema, eye allergy, hay fever, anaphylaxis.

He also provides immunotherapy treatment for grass, tree, house dust mite, peanut Palforzia, milk and egg allergy. He undertakes skin prick tests and arranges allergy blood tests. He also undertakes anti-IgE treatment and Omalizumab injections.

Dr Sood deals with all childhood health concerns from newborn to 18 years age. He treats colic, feeding difficulties, failure to gain adequate weight, reflux, constipation, prolonged diarrhoea, chest infections, chronic cough, urinary tract infections, daytime and nighttime bedwetting and all other general paediatric problems in children.

He undertakes food challenges under medical supervision and arranges adrenalin autoinjector and Basic Life Support (BLS) training for families.

Dr Sood has been a Consultant Paediatrician since 1998. He has over forty years of clinical experience.

Dr Sood holds 8 Clinical Excellence Awards from The Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA), an independent advisory committee on distinction awards.

Special interests

Allergy

  • Food
  • Skin
  • Eye
  • Hay fever
  • Urticaria
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Injection adrenaline training
  • Allergy skin prick testing
  • Immunotherapy (desensitisation).

General paediatrics 

  • Asthma
  • Eczema
  • Colic
  • Reflux
  • Feeding difficulties
  • Failure to gain weight
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal pain
  • Headache
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Day time and night time wetting.

Other interests

Allergy

  • Allergy testing, skin prick tests and blood tests
  • Food allergy
  • Milk, egg, peanut immunotherapy
  • Nuts allergy
  • Treatment for pollen allergy, grass, tree and house dust mite
  • Immunotherapy for grass, tree and house dust mite allergy
  • Urticaria, angioedema, anaphylaxis
  • Anti-IgE Omalizumab injections (eye allergy, hay fever)
  • Eczema.

General paediatrics

  • Abdominal pain, colic, reflux, constipation, diarrhoea
  • Feeding difficulties, failure to gain adequate weight
  • Headache, migraine
  • Chest problems, chronic cough, infections, pneumonia, asthma
  • Urinary tract infections, daytime and nighttime wetting
  • Muscle and bone problems
  • Anaemia, iron deficiency and vitamin deficiencies
  • General neurology problems
  • Arranging investigations, blood test, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound.

Languages spoken

English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu

Treatments and tests offered by Dr Rajiv Sood at Nuffield Health

  • Allergy testing
  • Paediatric medicine

Locations Dr Rajiv Sood works with

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    High Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, IG9 5HX

    020 8505 3311
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Related experience

Memberships

  • British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI)
  • European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
  • World Allergy Organisation WAO
  • British Medical Association
  • Member Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland M176241

Other posts held

  • Consultant Paediatrician & Allergy Specialist, Homerton University Hospital

Insurers Dr Rajiv Sood works with

Dr Rajiv Sood works with the following private medical insurance providers:

  • Aetna
  • Allianz
  • APRIL
  • Aviva Health
  • AXA Health
  • Benenden Health
  • Bupa
  • Bupa On Demand
  • Bupa Global
  • Cigna
  • Cigna International
  • CS Healthcare
  • Freedom Health
  • Healix Healthcare
  • Health-on-Line
  • InterGlobal
  • Simplyhealth
  • Vitality Health (Pru Health)
  • Westfield Health WPA
  • WPA