Okay are we really the onyl ones dealing with an abcess ??? Has anyone ever heard or read about these ? Noah has an abcess located right @ the top half of his stoma site, this is his 3rd stoma site and it was placed directly underneath an old site. The GI found a large golfball size lump of scar tissue where the old site was and it is abcetic and when it flares up it swells out the top of Noah's new stoma site and causes him great pain and fevers. The GI says put mylanta on it and hot compress's but it just won't go away.

Holy cow Katy, the poor kid!! :hug: If it's not one thing, it's another with him.

Shae's never had anything like that and I can't really say that I know of anyone else who has either sorry. It's not granulation tissue is it?

No it is an abcess located inside the stomach.

I have heard of them but have no great information for it Katy. Sorry. Poor Noah! He can not seem to catch a break.

Maybe someone here does have experience and will post. What are they planning on doing about it?

I'm so sorry for the little guy! :( I have not ever heard of this, nor am I familiar w/the procedures. But...mylanta? Put it on it as a topical thing? Interesting. Isn't there anything they can do for him besides this?

All they have said is to but Mylanta on the site but we can't do that until it breaks the surface, it starts from the inside and then eventually bursts its way out. Once it bursts he feels better but it can take weeks to coax it out. We do shoot Mylanta in the stoma site to try & calm it down on the inside but, I don't think it does too much.

The poor little guy! I'm sorry to hear that he has yet another thing to deal with, Katy. Give him a big hug for me!

I wish I had some advice---sorry. Are there any tube feeding support goups on-line--I honestly never looked, maybe there is someone else out there with the same problem--good luck.

I am so sorry to hear that Noah has yet something else to deal with :-(
Is the stomach stoma site similiar to a colostomy stoma site?? My cousin has one and she puts some sort of homeopathic cream on it that works wonders....
Do you havea stoma support group locally that could be of any help...???

Yeow, Katy! No, Daniel does not have this problem. The Mylanta treatment sounds like a pretty lousy idea. Just the idea of Noah on his third stoma site make me :smt022 .

:hug:

Ug, I swear I am going to pay for a full body tatoo for him when he grows up the stoma site heal so crappy !!!
Sarah, YES it is pretty much the same thing, what does she use ???? If you could find out that would be great, it has been giving us a hard time since it was placed back in April so almost of year of constant irritation from the abcess. The stoma site every where else is beautiful, very little granulation tissue this time around no redness, and very little drainage.

I will do my best to see if I can find out (she lives overseas so give me a few days okay....) I know you won't be going anywhere ;-)

I only ever knew of one tube feeding support group, it was at ivillage a long time ago and wasn't ever very active. I actually think it has since been shut down. Most boards are like this one, have a tube feeding forum within it.

So sorry for poor little Noah Katy, I don't have any words of wisdom. Can't they go in and drain it or something?

OMG!!! That just seems outrageous... pour Mylanta on it? Wow... is it not something that can be drained? Poor Noah!!!

Okay, so I know it's take ages to get back to you :oops: (very UNreliable cousin).... she said she puts the stuff under the tape where the (colostomy) bag sticks to the skin.. she gets skin infections there and so this stuff really helps. So, I guess that is not really going to help you at all.. becaus ean abcess is a differnt kettle of fish.. so I'm so sorry to have "led you up the garden path" as they say.... :oops:
How are things now with the abcess? Can't they give him antibiotics for it??