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Dr. Rivas is a pediatric physician located in Gonzales, TX. His office is at Sievers Medical Clinic, a multispecialty medical group that provides care for Gonzales and surrounding communities. Dr. Rivas completed his internship and pediatric residency at UMDNJ-University Hospital/Children's Hospital of NJ program in 1992. He practiced initially in Austin, TX where he resided for 13 years before moving to Gonzales with his family in 2006. He has extensive experience in the care of complicated and healthy newborns as well as hospital and ambulatory care of children and adolescents up to the age of 21 years old. Beyond taking care of the whole spectrum of pediatrics he has special interests in Dermatology, Asthma/Allergies, Infectous Diseases and critically ill newborns and infants.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Pediatrics
Licenses
United States: Texas
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
16 Answers
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A 37-year-old member asked:
Dr. Humberto Rivasanswered
Pediatrics 36 years experience
No: Plethora is a term that we pediatricians usually use to describe a newborn that looks "flushed" or swollen looking with redish facial appearance. Ans... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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See your doctor: Any child with enlarged lymph nodes should have a visit to his/her pediatrician. Most enlargement of lymph nodes are what we called reactive enlargem... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Webbing of neck: The "webbing of the neck" is just used as a description of one of the physical appearance in Turner's syndrome. It is the appearance of a wider than ... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Irregular cycle: I will assume you are not taking contraceptive medication. There can be several factors, from physiological (normal) variations, although, if you hav... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Vermox: Vermox is not longer available in the US for that purpose. If you have terrible side effects, try something different, talk to your doctor, there are... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Low: A well managed, well controlled sickle cell disease patient should have a live expentancy past their 5th decade of life. This is obviously in patient... Read More
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Visit your doctor: The symptoms you are describing may be related with a ring worm but also may be related with a yeast (fungal) infection. The treatment is different. ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Discuss with doctor: This issue should be handled by your primary care physician without any problems. You don't need a specialist for this concern. Also, if you have an... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Pregnancy: Pregnancy tests these days are very sensitive and if you would be pregnant you should be positive. You are very young and because of your age and ris... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
HFM dis. in infants: Before I further discuss this issue, I would like to advise you to visit a competent pediatrician or pediatric infectious disease physician that can, ... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Niemman-pick: Depending of the severity. Depending on where the accumulation of sphingomyelin accumulation occur like liver, nervous system, bone, brain, etc. You... Read More
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NO: I have never heard of anything like this. The broken ribs are a result of a significant blunt trauma to the are unlikely to happen during the placeme... Read More
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Maybe: Growth patterns are related with hormonal changes and with the genetics of your family. There are individuals that achieve their peak growth earlier ... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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No: Anxiety alone and in the abscense of any other clinical or medical condition shouldn't predispose anybody to have an enlarged heart or cardiomyopathy.
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Calamine lotion: Calamine is used to help with itching associated with topical allergies, insect bites and such. The medication is effective for around 3-6 hours afte... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Pediatrics 36 years experience
Ovarian cyst: Explanation may need longer space, but, you have several ovarian follicules that mature to release an ovum during your mestrual cycle. Some of those ... Read More
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Rivas is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Rivas is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! I actually found out a out a month later that I had Addisons Disease,thanks again for your answer,it was 5 weeks until It was diagnosed.thanks again.
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Autonomous School of Medical Sciences of Central America, Costa Rica
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