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Update to DD being in the hospital

talitha712talitha712 member
in January 2012 Moms

We were released yesterday afternoon.  DD's chest X-rays and echocardiogram came back normal.  They weren't able to do a swallow study because apparently the hospital doesn't do them on the weekends.  The one DD had done in early February was normal, though.  The doc is having us majorly thicken DD's formula with rice cereal in hopes that this will keep it down rather than coming back up into her throat and we changed her reflux meds from 1ml of Zantac to 1.5ml of Prilosec.  Since we were admitted to the hospital DD has only had one very short gasping episode that only lasted a couple seconds (it's normal for her to have several a day).  Doc said to keep an eye on it and if things start to get worse again to call ASAP, otherwise we will revisit at DD's 4 month appointment next month.

 

Fwiw, I was always against rice cereal in bottles.  I was hesitant to even try it when the pedi suggested it, but thought we'd see.  If adding rice cereal keeps my daughter breathing rather than choking and turning blue from the liquid coming back up into her throat, then I'll do it. 


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Re: Update to DD being in the hospital

  • SRK128SRK128 member
    Good to know you are home. Hopefully adding the rice cereal will help!
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  • elsINlbelsINlb member
    So glad she's ok and home!! Good luck with the cereal, I hope it helps!!
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  • Katie31759Katie31759 member
    That's great that you're home!! I hope the rice cereal helps out!
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  • bhead81bhead81 member
    I completely understand being against thickening it with rice cereal, I was told to do it last month for B's bottle's since he was having similar gasping episodes. I did some research and presented my dr the suggestion of thickening with Gelmix or Simply Thick.  He agreed to allow us to thicken with Gelmix so we started that and it has been a life saver!!   I would say it would be worth asking your dr about thickening with a gel thickener such as Gelmix, Simply Thick, etc.
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  • SoonToBeMsPSoonToBeMsP member
    I can't even imagine how scary that was (just saw your OP). Glad she's OK and I hope the rice cereal works!
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  • lp0lp0 member
    Glad to hear she's doing better. Hopefully the rice cereal will help.
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