another question for the pros

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone, this is , Jonah's mom. Thank you all so much for your help

and support. I am home to change clothes, but need to head back to the

hospital. Jonah is being so brave, but he still will not eat a thing. He did

drink a little juice. My question is how do the kids start eating again if they

are feeling full from the IV. The pediatrician thinks we should lower the

dosage of the IV so he gets hungry again, does that sound right? What about the

Periactin, should he get back on that? I'm feeling a bit anxious right now and

on top of it all he has a nurse today who is not too " with it " . Any help is

greatly appreciated. Stacey, thank you so much for your call.

Jonah's mom

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

Although an IV does supply a person's nutritional needs, it does not

do so through the stomach (like a g-tube) and so he has no feeling of

fullness and he should begin to feel hungry. With other folks, that

is sometimes how they know to remove the IV, because the person is

beginning to experience normal hunger. I wouldn't be in a hurry to

turn down that IV, if it was me. I am not a medical person, but that

makes sense to me.

Conny, Great-aunt to

> Hi everyone, this is , Jonah's mom. Thank you all so much

for your help and support. I am home to change clothes, but need to

head back to the hospital. Jonah is being so brave, but he still

will not eat a thing. He did drink a little juice. My question is

how do the kids start eating again if they are feeling full from the

IV. The pediatrician thinks we should lower the dosage of the IV so

he gets hungry again, does that sound right? What about the

Periactin, should he get back on that? I'm feeling a bit anxious

right now and on top of it all he has a nurse today who is not

too " with it " . Any help is greatly appreciated. Stacey, thank you

so much for your call.

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