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VQ scan...help?
My son has to have a VQ scan of his heart/blood flow to his lungs with the radioactive dye. His appointment is at 9 am next wednesday and he cannot eat anything for 6 hours before... any help of how to keep my little guy from being pissed about not being able to eat would be appreciated.
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Re: VQ scan...help?
Yea, that sucks. We've had to fast a few times for various procedures and it just sucks. The worst was recently when my 4yo had anesthesia to get a tooth pulled an the appointment was at 1pm. He was PISSED.
No advice, just good luck!
We have had to fast alot, more times than I can count, starting at young ages. It's just something you have to do, so the less you think about it and how much it's going to suck the better.
I don't know how old your son is but if he is still on a bottle/boob I would feed him just before the cut off time, even if that means waking up in the middle of the night/or at an abnormal time.
And just distract, we have been lucky in that it's the AFTER waking up that's been unpleasant, opposed to the before most of the time.