Re:all-another ? about Cyclic vomiting ?

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To those who responded to my question (or others), how were your kids

diagnosed with cyclic vomiting? Did you go through the PH probe and scope?

Did you do other tests to confirm it?

Darla: mommy to: Asenath (4) Mito, CNS Vasculitis, strokes, migraines,

seizures, G-tube, hypotonicity, disautonomy,SID, dev. delays, asthma

Zipporrah (7 mon.) Mito, strokes, SID, G-tube, asthma, trach issues,

disautonomy, hypo & hypertonicity, migraines

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>Reply-To: Mito

>To: Mito

>Subject: Re: Cyclic vomiting ?

>Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:12:30 EDT

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>Darla,

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> >To those who deal with cyclic vomiting, what do you see surrounding the

> >vomiting episode.

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>I can almost always tell when Emilie is starting an episode. She

>definitely looks and acts different. She gets pale; that lasts for

>anywhere from 15 minutes to a couple of hours. Sometimes her eyes are

>dilated. During one streak where she threw up every day for a week, she

>ran a low-grade fever for about 15 minutes before throwing up. She will

>either be very quiet and drowsy or agitated and combative, saying things

>that don't make a lot of sense. After vomiting 1-3 times, she's usually

>back to normal in less than a half hour and can eat a meal and keep it

>down fine. She looks and acts like nothing happened.

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> -- Mom to:

>Emilie (18), mito--complex IV, cp, ld

>Kaitlin (18), cp, asthma, a few autonomic symptoms

>Ian (22) migraines

>...and wife to Tim, who has a heart of gold

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>Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

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