http://www.emedicine.com/PED/topic1280.htm

and this

is especially important to know the differential diagnosis for stridor in the neonate because 17.5% (12- 27%) of patients with stridor and respiratory symptoms have two or more unrelated airway lesions. Gonzales performed a retrospective analysis of infants undergoing DL&B for stridor or airway distress. His team found 27% of patients with laryngomalacia had synchronous airway lesions and half of these were below the vocal folds. The finding of cyanosis was significantly associated with a significant synchronous lesion and the lesion may not be apparent on flexible laryngoscopy. In addition, multiple authors have written about the concurrent finding of GER in some of these patients. GER has been documented in up to 80% of patients with laryngomalacia. Evaluation and treatment of this should be considered in symptomatic patients. Failure of surgical correction has been attributed to uncontrolled reflux in two studies.

Here's the link to this info I just found
http://www.bcm.edu/oto/grand/21094.html

Thanks for the links Minnie. It's a shame they can't give an indictaion of how common (or uncommon) it is...

"Laryngomalacia is the most common cause of chronic inspiratory noise in infants"

Wow. Interesting read indeed Minnie. Do you think this may be something to investigate for Eric's Darth Vader breathing? Did you broach the subject with the ped? Or are you busy researching and then going to wham them with the information?!:wink:

I had never heard of it before. I think I will take that link as we need more informational links for IRD and this is a GERDy one for sure.

Thanks!

Minnie, thanks for the information. It was very interesting!

Wow. Interesting read indeed Minnie. Do you think this may be something to investigate for Eric's Darth Vader breathing? Did you broach the subject with the ped? Or are you busy researching and then going to wham them with the information?!:wink:

I had never heard of it before. I think I will take that link as we need more informational links for IRD and this is a GERDy one for sure.

Thanks!

I've actually come across it before, but came to a dead end cus most articles I found pertained to adults with vocal problems (or men turning into women surgically). This is the first article that I found about infants that actually said the baby didn't have to have stridor. Eric' has never whistled (that's what I call it).

This is where I got started (completely on accident)
I actually went to this site because someone here had a question about sandifers, and they have good info on reglan side effects and seizures, sandifers etc. (plus they talk about zegerid and how to dose)
they started me thinking about the whole larynx thing again
http://marci-kids.com/eerlarynx.html
Interesting read there too.

I plan on bringing it up to the GI and hopefully he'll take a look and make note of Eric's larynx during his endoscopy, but since there's no treatment, but surgery for severe cases, and it's just another "they outgrow it" thing, nothing will come of it.

It does set my mind more at ease though. All this time I thought acid was invading his lungs and sinuses and this may not be the case at all or at least not as badly as I pictured. This would also explain why he never had an ear infection. I mean if it's getting up to his sinus it's seems to me he would have been plagued with them.

So funny all this time I thought "poor kid doesn't even know what it's like to breath through his nose" But know that I think
DUH! He sleeps with a blanket shoved way in his mouth every night (I think to catch all the drool so he doesn't have to swallow so much) all night and runs around with it just crammed in there all day, of course he's breathing through his nose. (slap on the forehead!)
But it sounds just like snot. Really nasty mucusy snot that never comes out.
His lungs rattle and sound terrible, but he's never had a flemy cough (even with a cold). Nothing has ever been coughed out. (LOL except food when he chokes! :D)
I have always been able to tell when he's sleeping on his back VS tummy.
I could go on and on it all fits!
every single last bit of it does.

and the part where they talk about 80% of all cases also have GER! YIKES that just hits the nail on the head doesn't it?!

Definitely a GERDy link for sure, and I'm so glad I found it.

EVERYBODY WITH A NOISY BREATHER READ THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the links. This is very interesting as I have two noisy babies who I wonder about from time to time!

I've actually come across it before, but came to a dead end cus most articles I found pertained to adults with vocal problems (or men turning into women surgically). This is the first article that I found about infants that actually said the baby didn't have to have stridor. Eric' has never whistled (that's what I call it).

This is where I got started (completely on accident)
I actually went to this site because someone here had a question about sandifers, and they have good info on reglan side effects and seizures, sandifers etc. (plus they talk about zegerid and how to dose)
they started me thinking about the whole larynx thing again
http://marci-kids.com/eerlarynx.html
Interesting read there too.

I plan on bringing it up to the GI and hopefully he'll take a look and make note of Eric's larynx during his endoscopy, but since there's no treatment, but surgery for severe cases, and it's just another "they outgrow it" thing, nothing will come of it.

It does set my mind more at ease though. All this time I thought acid was invading his lungs and sinuses and this may not be the case at all or at least not as badly as I pictured. This would also explain why he never had an ear infection. I mean if it's getting up to his sinus it's seems to me he would have been plagued with them.

So funny all this time I thought "poor kid doesn't even know what it's like to breath through his nose" But know that I think
DUH! He sleeps with a blanket shoved way in his mouth every night (I think to catch all the drool so he doesn't have to swallow so much) all night and runs around with it just crammed in there all day, of course he's breathing through his nose. (slap on the forehead!)
But it sounds just like snot. Really nasty mucusy snot that never comes out.
His lungs rattle and sound terrible, but he's never had a flemy cough (even with a cold). Nothing has ever been coughed out. (LOL except food when he chokes! :D)
I have always been able to tell when he's sleeping on his back VS tummy.
I could go on and on it all fits!
every single last bit of it does.

and the part where they talk about 80% of all cases also have GER! YIKES that just hits the nail on the head doesn't it?!

Definitely a GERDy link for sure, and I'm so glad I found it.

EVERYBODY WITH A NOISY BREATHER READ THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!

Minnie - This sounds identical to Sam! He is always "plugged" up and can never seam to get anything out!!! The only thing is that we have had an endoscope done and everythng appears "normal" to the ENT.