Jody, Liam and reflux.....

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Jody,

Wow. I am telling you.....and I have told you before, Liam's

symptoms sound way too similar to 's. And, it sounds like you

are getting the same results as we have gotten lately. As far as

reflux, and aspiration. I told you I was worried about Liam

aspirating, based on waht you were telling me he was doing. It just

sounds like all over again. Anyway, I really hope you all can

get to the bottom of this. , now that he is on the J utbe, is

refluxing stomach contents, and bile is included in this. That is

why Dr.H pulled the J tube he had a year ago. He was spitting up bile

and she said this was not normal, nor acceptable. So, here we go

again, and getting the same results. I hope you all get answers and

find out for sure whether he is aspirating. They took an x- ray of

's lungs during one of his gastric emptying tests after he had

the severe vommiting episodes, and that how they found he was

aspirating. I just can't believe how these two boys sound identical!

Dr. H never fails. She told me last October that had reflux,

but all the tests we had done there, and all we have done since until

last month were negative. So, she really seems to know what she is

talking about!

Email me and keep me updated on what goes on. I am really interested

in this being that our boys are going through the same thing right

now.

Jodi R.

> Hi

> Just an update on Liam.

> As some of you know, Liam had never been diagnosed with reflux,

> until we saw Dr H in Chicago, and that was practically the first

> thing she told us when she saw Liam.

> Since then we have talked to liams GI specialist who didnt think an

> endo could make a call like that from a half hour meeting, but let

> us start zantac, to see if anything changed. We didnt notice

> anything major, but in 5 week liam put on 300gms and stopped

> retching in the AM.

> Today Liam had ear tubes put in because of recurrent ear infections

> and reptured ear drums, his ENT did a oesophogoscopy (? some kind

of

> endoscopy) and came out describing how throughout the whole

> procedure Liam had green fluid continually coming up into his

> oesophagus, meaning not only did the stomach contents come up( he

> had been fasting for 8 hours) but bile from the duodenum???? Also

> the anaesthetist presumed his grotty chest was from aspiration?

> All of this we have to discuss now with the doubting GI specialist.

> At this stage of today, I am only venting, I dont have a clue what

> our next steps will be, but I had to pour it all out.

> Thanks for listening

> Jody(mum to Liam 10.2kg 82cm and cameron)