Barium intake for radiography

[Guest guest]

Hi everybody, hoping you all are making progress, I hope someone can

help us with the following:

Anya had to ingest this morning strawberry flavored, sweet barium to

get an xray of her small intestine to rule out Crohns disease.

What adverse reaction can we expect?

She is about to conclude her prescribed intake of Prednisolone, after

34 days of treatment and is still taking 6MP (Mercaptopurine). She has

been on scd for the same period

Diarrhea is under control since the third day, and had no setbacks.

Only a few days of unformed stools. This has ocured also in the last

couple days. After adding ground liver and string beans to the diet.

Best of look to all, and thanks again

Julio & Araceli

Anya, 3 y.o. grandaughter

UC diagnosed 5/24/06

SCD started 5/28/06

Meds: Prednisolone (tapering), Mercaptopurine

[Guest guest]

Hi Julio & Araceli

> Hi everybody, hoping you all are making progress, I hope someone

can

> help us with the following:

>

> Anya had to ingest this morning strawberry flavored, sweet barium

to

> get an xray of her small intestine to rule out Crohns disease.

>

> What adverse reaction can we expect?

>

>... Diarrhea is under control since the third day, and had no

setbacks.

> Only a few days of unformed stools.

She may have no reaction or she may have diarrhea - it is hard to

say because everyone is different. Since she is having (mostly)

formed stools she " probably " won't have to bad of a reaction.

If she does have a reaction you can either use safe foods for a few

days or do the intro for a day or two to flush it out.

Sheila, SCD 2/01, UC 22yrs

mom of and

[Guest guest]

Dear Julio and ARaceli,

I would call this an infraction of sorts, even though it was medical

necesity. I have been told for infractions to take more accidolphilus

and eat more yogurt. If it causes diarrhea, it was suggested to me to

go back to intro foods for two days. Even if she doesn't have

diarrhea or symptoms, if I was you I would start over with intro and

then go back to where you wehre after a few days of eating easy to

digest foods.

The complex carbs in that barium can't help but be feeding bad gut

guys! I would think that you now would need to starve them out and

trade them in for good gut guys! I am guessing from our past screw

ups, that the entire process probably wouldn't take more than three

days to get back on track.

Hope this helps, Antoinette (celiac, IBS)mom to Kiki-2

(celiac/IBD,asd,pdd) SCD 2/06