frequent chest infections

[Guest guest]

Hi my daughter is mainly bottle and tube fed via a g tube and is on a high

calorie milk to supply all her nutritional requirements. She has lots of saliva,

prob not helped by her hands always in her mouth. We get lots of chest infec and

seem to be on a bad run of them. I am thinking the high dairy intake is not

helping her saliva production, although her consultant does not agree. Does

anyone else have this prob and give any natural supplements, i was thinking of a

probiotic because of all the antibiotics and maybe some multivitamin too. She

has fish oil at the moment. I am sure her diet is lacking something, she so

prone to infections. She is not mobile and has very low tone. thanks lou

[Guest guest]

my daughter had many chest infections as an infant. Come to find out she was

aspirating. We stayed on thickened liquids with jer bottle until she was 2.5

then she progressed to thin liquids. Maybe have a swallowing study done if you

haven't already.

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frequent chest infections

Hi my daughter is mainly bottle and tube fed via a g tube and is on a high

calorie milk to supply all her nutritional requirements. She has lots of saliva,

prob not helped by her hands always in her mouth. We get lots of chest infec and

seem to be on a bad run of them. I am thinking the high dairy intake is not

helping her saliva production, although her consultant does not agree. Does

anyone else have this prob and give any natural supplements, i was thinking of a

probiotic because of all the antibiotics and maybe some multivitamin too. She

has fish oil at the moment. I am sure her diet is lacking something, she so

prone to infections. She is not mobile and has very low tone. thanks lou