Britta S. Sternberg-Von Ungern is a Pediatric Pulmonologist based at 15 Hospital Ave, Perth, WA 6009, Australia. She looks after babies, children, and teens with breathing and sleep-related problems. This can include issues that show up during the day, like asthma flares, or at night, when breathing or snoring can be more of a concern.
In many cases, her patients are dealing with ongoing lung and airway problems. This might mean asthma, recurrent chest infections like pneumonia, or things that affect how air moves through the throat and upper airway. She also treats children with noisy breathing and airway narrowing, such as stridor and laryngomalacia. Sleep breathing issues are another big part of the work, including obstructive sleep apnoea, central sleep apnoea, and infantile apnoea.
She also works with children who need care around common ENT conditions that can affect breathing and sleep. That can involve tonsillitis and adenoid problems, and care that may connect with procedures like adenoidectomy. When kids have trouble swallowing, choking, or recurring infections that affect their breathing, a combined focus on both airway and sleep can help a lot.
Day-to-day, her approach is about calm, clear care for families, especially when symptoms can be scary. She has experience managing acute respiratory flare-ups, and she helps coordinate next steps when a child needs further tests or follow-up. Over time, she builds a plan that fits what the child is actually dealing with, not just what the diagnosis says on paper.
Training for paediatric lung and sleep care is at the centre of her work, so she can support families through complex situations like severe breathing episodes, including cases involving COVID-19 and other serious infections. If a child needs an investigation such as endoscopy, the goal is still the same: make sure the team understands what’s going on and chooses the safest, most helpful care.
