Re: Question re Fundoplication

February 13, 2005

Hi Alison,

My daughter has had the Nissen fundoplication, after being for many months on

medicine. She has been on Reglan and Zantac, they eventually changed it to

Reglan and Prevacid. Even on the medicine she would not hardly eat, gags, and

often lost weight, even when she wasn't sick. It was a heartache, watching her

so skinny that you can see her ribs. According to the swallowing study, she had

severe GERD, and we couldn't tell, just by looking at her. Then with the scope

to her throat, they noticed just how severe it was, they could barely go down

through all the inflamation and all the " stuff " coming up from her stomach. They

also noticed that with the chest x-ray that she had spots on her longs, also

probably from the reflux.

Eventually her doctor thought that it would be best to get the Nissen done, with

the G-tube. To be honest, I couldn't have been happier with the end result. She

has been a whole different little girl, happy, active, started talking, and

gaining weight, even with just very little supplementation through her tube.

My opinion about the fundoplication is a very positive one, but if you don't

feel comfortable with the doctor, try to find a different one. For a child to

constantly vomit his or her food up, there has to be something wrong. Our doctor

is about 400 miles away from us, but it has definately been worth the drive.

Good luck,

alisonbinet wrote:

Hello

My son Charlie is on 2 hourly GTube feeds of 45ml Pediasure and has

been getting increasingly worse with his reflux. It makes little

difference how often we feed him or how much, he has been vomiting

about 50 - 90% of feeds. His gastroenterologist has recommended a

fundoplication to stop him vomiting and we were stunned that surgery

would be considered before trialling any medication (everyone in

Australia would know this doctor is not pro intervention!). We have

finally convinced the doctor to let us trial zantac and then a drug

similar to prilosec but he has told us these drugs won't work and

the surgery should be done within 2 months. He is concerned re

calorie intake especially as Charlie will be starting on GH therapy

in the next month. Has anyone had a fundoplication done? My other

question would be to try a GJ Tube - has anyone got one of those?

Any information would be great. Thanks

Alison (mum to 3yrs and Charlie 19mths RSS 7kg 69cm)

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