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Jan Gambino
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 04:13 PMre: Untitled Comment
marinaibra
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:28 PMhi, thanks for the response. yes, my son has been evaluated by speech therapies and he is receiving therapy for low muscle tone and the hypersensitive gag reflux. its a long process but we are moving forwards thank G-d. the funny thing is when i was ready to set up an appointment for endo he stopped throwing up alltogether except when he coughs hard, and that confused me even more. i decided to give him time and see what will happen. i haven't discussed it with my GI though yet, i'll do that and see what she thinks.
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Jan Gambino
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 05:45 AMHello! Oh, I am so glad you have a speech therapist helping you. Ask her about the endo too. My refluxers would go through ups and downs. Some weeks were just plain awful with severe symptoms day after day. Often I could relate it to teething, an illness or growth spurt. Other times, I could not figure it out. One time I made an appt with the gi dr and by the time we got to see him (a week or two later) the worse was over!
I know it is very hard not to know what will happen next. It sounds like you have a good team of specialists helping and that is very important. Ican't remember if you have tried any special diets for your son's reflux. When you get a moment, let me know what he is eating and drinking these days.
jan
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marinaibra
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 11:03 AMhello! my son's diet is still quiet simple. his 24 hr intake constitutes of about 15 oz/24 cal soy formula with rice or oatmeal cereal(about8-9 tbsp daily) and 6-8 oz solids in the form of sweet potato or regular potato with chicken soup or some fruit, i try to give him high calorie food only. i also give him an egg yolk every other day. he wouldn't eat more, i think by nature he is not a great eater.
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Anonymous
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 03:31 AMI hope your little boy is better by now. Wanted to let you know that our first son was highly allergic to soy and also to egg. You might want to eliminate those from his diet and it might stop the vomiting all together. Milk is also a biggie to watch.
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10 Month old with GERD
Vicki M
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 08:18 PMHi Marinaibra,
It is probably the toughest thing a mom can go through when your child is sick or uncomfortable. I know it always hurt me far more than my kids!!
I was doing some reading on the site and came across some information that you might find helpful. There is a great section here specifically about Baby GER. There are lots of helpful tips and information there.
My children never had GER, but I did babysit for a little boy who did. Not only did he have the GER but he got thrush (a yeast infection of the mouth) it was not obvious from the front, you actually had to look into his mouth to see it. That caused him to turn from the bottle. It is possible there is an irritation in your son's mouth that is also causing him to turn away.
There are also several resident experts here on the site who specialize in baby GER. Tracy Davenport is a mom living with a child who suffers from pediatric GERD. You can read about Tracy and read her share posts here.I see you have already connected with Jan Gambino, who is a resident expert with Infant GERD. She posted a sharepost called " Help my baby won't eat" You can read that posting here. Jan's profile and links to her other share posts are here. She reads the site often and may share her views with you as well.
Please stay in touch and let us know how you and your little one are doing!!
Vicki M
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my 10 month and 2 weeks has the same thing
bb
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 11:38 PMmy baby's 10 and a half month, he seems to have the same symtoms as your baby. He was never a big drinker. He was diagnosed with Gerd when he was 6 weeks, but we refused to give any med, instead I did all the other suggestions that treat Gerd, like letting the baby sleep with the head elevated, keeping him in a upright position for around 1/2 hour after each feed, etc. He was on Neocate because of milk allergies to all other types of formula (soy, hypo-allergenic). I believe Neocate helped the Gerd but my baby hated drinking that. His reflux seemed to subsided by 6 month, but still didn't want to drink his Neocatae. At around 7 month, a new ped finally suggested a way to weane him back to regular milk, he was drinking it much better, always hover around 25 oz/day, but at a price. Since he got back to regular milk, he's been throwing up quite often, for the past week, at least once a day, all triggered by the same way your baby is. I still don't want to give him med, since he'll be 1 soon, I can go easy on his formula amount and try to give him more solid. But at the time, I personal think his throat passage way might be sore from all the vomitting in the past few days, and he's refusing to drink his milk. The last time I told his ped, the ped said as long as he's not throwing up at every feeds, should be fine. But now everyday throw up, my husband and I think it's bad enough. I am seeing his ped in the next week or so.
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Reflux/endo/swollow test/etc.
Anonymous
Monday, April 07, 2008 at 07:08 PMI have an 8 month old that has been dealing with reflux issues and does not eat any solids at all. I am posting this because I read so many questions about the endoscopy. My son had it about two weeks ago and it wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated. I too cancelled one appointment before going thru with it. I actually watched the whole process. To be honest, the swollow test with barium was far more intrusive (since he was awake for it). My son was asleep for the endo for about 20 minutes, was easy to wake up, and acted perfectly normal thereafter. Our next step is to see the speech therapist. I wish all your babies good luck.
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marinaibra
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 07:01 PMhi thanks for sharing with your experience, was the endoscopy helpful? did they rule out anything to make the process easwier?
what im doing now is that before he eats his milk i gsit him in his highchair and put on the table of the highchair some solids whatever your child has interest in like cheerios cookis or fresh fruits, and just give him 15-=20 min to play with it and i have seen a difference of seeing my son actually put the food in his outh he eats some of it but again its a start. it was actually recommended by ouir speech therapist. good luck
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marinaibra
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 07:11 PMhi
i just wanted to know if you feel you benefited from doing an endoscopy? did you get any answers to your sons poor eating habits? im just wondering if its worth doing it?
thanks
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celina
Friday, May 23, 2008 at 08:23 PMMy son hasn't had an endoscopy- yet. I'm avoiding it as well. I was wondering what formula you are using? My baby (who is 10 months) is on Alimentum now (we switched from Good Start soy) and he is doing much better. Only threw-up twice in the past month. He has also been taking prevacid. He's still not really gaining weight though, and is in the 2nd percentile for his weight. He's a good eater, but refuses to eat breakfast.... not sure why.
If you decide to do the endoscopy, let me know how it goes
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marinaibra
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 04:02 PMhi there, we did end up doing an endoscopy, it was nerve wracking for me but my son did well and it went fine, the findings nwere absolutely normal, all he has ia a baby reflux and my GI suggesting just to follow regular reflux precautions, he is not on any meds right now, but his weight is still low, but we are trying. good luck!
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Hello! I think we talked a while back about your son. It sounds like he has had ongoing feeding issues and reflux. A few months ago, he was eating small amounts and gaining weight slowly. Now the vomiting has returned along with a hypersensitive gag.
The doctor may want to do an endoscopy to get a clearer idea of the problem to guide the treatment. My daughters have had several endoscopies. A child needs to be sedated, often the part that is most troubling for parents and children. It is a short procedure, only 15-30 minutes long. Your child may be sleepy and upset when he wakes up. I bet he will be back to normal by the end of the day or the next day. The doctor will be able to give you some results right away. Often biopsies (small samples) are taken. It will take 2 weeks or more to get those results back.
I wonder if your child has been evaluated by a feeding therapist or speech therapist. A hypersensitive gag and poor weight gain may be a sign of a oral motor problem (fancy term for a problem with the muscles in the mouth that control eating and swallowing).
Let me know what you find out.
Best wishes, Jan
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