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01.25.10 | News | By Corine Tran |
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More Reflux
Aiden's reflux had seemed to be under control and better. We were really seeing a happy baby after starting the compounded prevacid. But after about 4-5 days the cough was returning and I could see that Aiden was becoming unhappy again. I had read online and was told by Dr. Phillips from Marci-kids.com that the compounded prevacid would stop being effective and that prevacid should not be compounded. I had originally told this to Aiden's pediatrician and even faxed her some information from the marci-kids.com website. But she still called it in as a compound. Once Aiden stopped being happy and I heard that cough return I called the pharmacy to ask them about the prevacid. I was assured it would be good for 2 weeks. The pharmacist told me that the information he had from the drug company said it would be good for 2 weeks. I wasn't buying it so I refilled Aiden's Rx of the compounded prevacid. It was Friday and I needed to get Aiden through the weekend without being miserable. After talking to his pediatrician about the returning cough she wanted us to go see a GI specialist but didn't want to call in any other medications.
So I already had planned on bringing Aiden to see Dr. Khoshoo since several friends had recommended him. We had our appointment on Monday and it went pretty well. It was a huge relief and very gratifying when the doctor said that the compounded prevacid I was giving Aiden was not any good. He even said the pharmacy should have known NOT to compound it because prevacid is unstable and becomes uneffective when compounded. So yay! That was nice to hear. I mean I already knew that but it was nice to have a doctor agree since Aiden's pediatrician wasn't comfortable calling it in any other way.
Dr. Khoshoo put Aiden on the prevacid solutabs. We went home with a Rx for those. Aiden can also take mylanta 3-4 times a day. Dr. Khoshoo was concerned that maybe something else is going on and drew a little picture of an esophagus with a little kink in it and said Aiden might have that. But they would have to get him to drink barium and take x-rays to be sure. He wanted to go the route of trying the prevacid solutabs first and if we saw improvement skipping the x-ray. So that has been the plan, take the prevacid.
I was really excited and emailed Dr. Phillips to let him know. Im sure he is way busy but I wanted to let him know. He responded that prevacid solutabs have a 50:50 chance of being absorbed in the infant stomach. Great!
Aiden's cough persists. I call it a cough but its like he refluxes and chokes and then starts coughing. Almost like when you swallow the wrong way and cough and choke and try to catch your breath. He does it when awake and in his sleep, it wakes him up, its wakes us all up.
A new thing that has started is that after feedings he becomes very agitated and fussy and squirmy. This is followed by lots of spit up. I hold him in a standing position after feeding, you cant get more upright then that. And while I am holding him I can feel his tummy and then he spits up. To me its more like throwing up the way his tummy tightens. Afterwards he seems to feel better, but then he is hungry again. One thing I dont like about the solubtas is that they have to be given on an empty stomach and then he cant eat for 30 minutes.
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01.19.10 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Aiden chewing on his Sophie
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01.18.10 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Playtime at the Park
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01.18.10 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Playdate with Friends!
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01.11.10 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Cold Outside!
It has been so freaking cold outside. Even though the sun has been out and the sky has been clear, its been too cold to go outside and enjoy any of it. Saturday we had 2 weddings. Mine was at the Wax Museum, love that place! It is so cool inside and the reception area is really nice. It was my first time shooting there. Leslie and I had the sweetest couple, they were both just all smiles, nothing upset them (What should, they were getting married!) and they had the best time.
After our wedding finished we headed over to Bee's to help him with groups. He had a very large wedding and it was so pretty! Great time! I finished with Bee about 1245am and headed home... well headed to get the boys from Kenner. When I was on my way Leslie called to tell me water was gushing from the side of my house. Great! I called Ryan because I didn't know who else to call. Beebe was still working his wedding and it didn't end till about 130am. Thankfully Ryan was not asleep, it was probably 1am when I called him. But he is young and single so he was out and said he'd head over to check it out. Yay! He was able to turn the water off to the entire house until the morning. Our lawn was frozen from all the water and so was the sidewalk. Thankfully it all turned out to be nothing but a hole in this particular cap and NOT a busted pipe.
We got out of the house today with the boys and went to the park. The sun was out but it was still so cold! We still had fun though.
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