c5afwife
01-27-2009, 01:21 PM
Hello everyone,I'm new to the board but not reflux- my 3 year old is a former slient refluxer.
ANyway- My 3 months has never really been an easy feeder but he would take 4-5 ozs every 4 hours. He's been on Isomil since 6 weeks( end of Nov.) and doing ok with it. I suspected something wasn't right because he was not easy to feed but instead of meds the dr. said thicken his formula with rice cereal which we did. That was working great and last week he started taking 6 ozs at some feeds but than Saturday the floor fell out from under us because he stopped eating and my happy cheery baby became miserable. Now he has been on rice for about 2 weeks and pervacid solutabs 7.5mgs 3x's a day for about a week. He only eats 1-2ozs at atime now and thats a struggle. He screams, pushes away, chokes and turns red. I took him to the dr. on Monday and she said his breathing was tacky and his lungs sounded wet. This is the second time thathas happened so she put him on steriods for 3 days, antibiotics for 5 days along with breathing treatments. Thrusday we have a upper GI scheduled and I'm justwaiting for my referral to the Peds GI to go threw which should be Friday. But, our dr. said if he doesn't start eating I will have to take him to the ER were they will admitt. I don't want this and I'm trying to hold out til we can see the peds GI but that may be 2 weeks :(. I know he's in so much pain and part of me wants to take him to the ER because I am affraid there is something more going on but atthe same time I can't bare the thought of him in the hospital. WHy would the reflux get so bad so quickly? COuld something more be going on? My stomach is in knots thinking it could be something worse than just reflux and maybe I should just take him in but the upper GI would show that on Thrusday, right? It's now 2:20pm and he has only eaten 8.5 ozs since 7am this morning. I don't know what to do. Someone please chime in here cuz I'm at a loss and freaking out.
Thank you,
Cristina
ANyway- My 3 months has never really been an easy feeder but he would take 4-5 ozs every 4 hours. He's been on Isomil since 6 weeks( end of Nov.) and doing ok with it. I suspected something wasn't right because he was not easy to feed but instead of meds the dr. said thicken his formula with rice cereal which we did. That was working great and last week he started taking 6 ozs at some feeds but than Saturday the floor fell out from under us because he stopped eating and my happy cheery baby became miserable. Now he has been on rice for about 2 weeks and pervacid solutabs 7.5mgs 3x's a day for about a week. He only eats 1-2ozs at atime now and thats a struggle. He screams, pushes away, chokes and turns red. I took him to the dr. on Monday and she said his breathing was tacky and his lungs sounded wet. This is the second time thathas happened so she put him on steriods for 3 days, antibiotics for 5 days along with breathing treatments. Thrusday we have a upper GI scheduled and I'm justwaiting for my referral to the Peds GI to go threw which should be Friday. But, our dr. said if he doesn't start eating I will have to take him to the ER were they will admitt. I don't want this and I'm trying to hold out til we can see the peds GI but that may be 2 weeks :(. I know he's in so much pain and part of me wants to take him to the ER because I am affraid there is something more going on but atthe same time I can't bare the thought of him in the hospital. WHy would the reflux get so bad so quickly? COuld something more be going on? My stomach is in knots thinking it could be something worse than just reflux and maybe I should just take him in but the upper GI would show that on Thrusday, right? It's now 2:20pm and he has only eaten 8.5 ozs since 7am this morning. I don't know what to do. Someone please chime in here cuz I'm at a loss and freaking out.
Thank you,
Cristina