Is anyone familiar with this proceedure?

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My 1y 10m old is supposed to take this test called H C G stimulation test. He

was born with both testicles undecended and now one is down and maybe the other

and he still has a hernia. We have a new doctor bc the other one retire, so we

are kind of starting over. Now this doctor brings up wanting to run this test.

It is one that will tell if the testicles are even functioning correctly, and if

they aren't he wouldn't bother to make sure they are both down. Then he would

just do the hernia. I got to thinking maybe this stuff they use has a

preservative in it. I don't know. I have Googled this a little a minute ago,

but it is all over my head. My baby is not vaccinated and I don't want to

acidentally put something unnecessary in his body. He also is concerned that he

has a narrow heart valve (pulmenary stenosis) that makes him concerned about

operating at all. The doctor who retired didn't seem to have this concern. It

is all so confusing. I thought things were getting better and now I have all of

these new concerns. The doctor who retired was more concerned that he has

Noonan's syndrome, but they couldn't find it even doing a micro array panel and

all his other testing results showed his body was working correctly and the

geneticts wasn't worried about him although he said he probably does has a

syndrome, but he is meeting all milestones and not concerned. All these

conflicting thoughts and interests and making me nervous. But, my reason for

posting here is the preservative issue. If anyone is familar with the other

issues I would be interested to hear from you as well. It is not a topic with a

lot of info. out there like autism. I feel lost.

Thanks,

April

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Do you work with a pediatrician or do you have appointments as needed with a

pediatric endocrinologist? If possible, I'd work directly with the ped endo.

Does your child have short stature? If so, I'd contact the Magic Foundation.

They will point you in the right direction and work closely with every ped endo

in the country.

http://www.magicfoundation.org/www

Sounds like the geneticist ruled out Noonan Syndrome, but are they doing tests

to figure out just what your child does have?

I did a quick check, but could not find a label for the HCG used for the

stimulation test. You can contact the office to get a copy of the label to see

what if any perservatives it contains. Not all biotech products have

preservatives. According to one web page I read, the stim test uses a very small

amount of the HCG.

Ask the ped endo if he would perform the surgery without the stim test. Most ped

endos will object to the request. If the answer is no, you may want to do the

stim test anyway. It may help to determine what syndrome your child has.

HTH

But, my reason for posting here is the preservative issue. If anyone is familar

with the other issues I would be interested to hear from you as well. It is not

a topic with a lot of info. out there like autism. I feel lost.

> Thanks,

> April

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