Forum: Children's Medical Matters

Landon is SO much better today, I can't even believe he's the same child. He's up to his normal antics, giggling and getting into trouble. He's still getting tired out easily, but isn't truly lethargic, which is awesome. He's been feeling enough better since last night to fight the nebulizers, which as annoying as it is, I know is an awesome sign. :thumbs_up: He's such a smart little cookie. He looked at my mom and said, "Me got an owie." Then he jabbed his thigh and said, "OW!" Then he...

Landon woke up with a temp of 104.2. He was very lethargic and absolutely not himself. By the time we went to the ped, at 3PM, he'd been awake MAYBE 2 hours all day. Even his ped commented on how this is NOT Landon. Anyhow, he has pneumonia and a double ear infection, even after finishing a round of zithromax yesterday. He got a rocephin shot in the office (what an understanding child, he told the nurse he wasn't mad at her and that it was oK), 2 nebs a dose of orapred and motrin, as his...

My poor Emily had a sour tummy last night - but went potty twice so we thought that was her problem. She went to school no problems - but came to me after homework - saying she was cold and asking me to take her temp. (smart kid!!) Sure enough 102. Now this is the shocker - Dh walked in - as I was taking her temp. And the FIRST THING HE SAID - was "I will stay home with her tomorrow. I have all my stuff and can work from home!" WHAT??/ I nearly fell over!!! Whew! Poor...

He just woke up with a temperature of 104.2. That is NOT going the right direction. He's also more congested and was wheezing a little bit last night, so its time for Mommy to throw in the towel. He's been running high fevers since Saturday, and his cough is just getting worse. Hopefully she can help us and he can kick the nasties quickly.

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Elisa has a seventh cranial nerve palsy on the right side of her face which is congenital. Her doctors when she was a tiny baby mentioned something about facial reanimation surgery as an option to help her move her face. If she could move the right side of her face chewing would not be a distant possibility, and it could also potentially help her to form words if she ever overcomes the non-verbal part of her autism. She'd also look a lot more "normal" and I would feel much more comfortable...

I have a very good idea what has been ailing Landon through the weekend and the first part of the week. I looked up symptoms of the flu and he has EVERY one of them, high fevers (pushing 104), cough (not real bad though), runny nose, and just a general sick feeling. He actually hasn't been terribly congested at all, so we've let it run its course at home and last night his fever broke on its own, naturally. (I went up to give him motrin and by the time I got there he was asleep, so I left...

As I explained in the post of the update from Hayden's pulm appt, his pulm thinks some of the asthma cough may be several other things combined, reflux, post nasal drip, and aspiration difficulties. One of the meds he gave was Omnicef for 21days. We are on day 3 and it seems like his nose has gotten worse. He's been on abx more times than I can count but this is the first time I've noted him getting worse. Today, he's just green and gooey running down his face. Before, it was a bit crusty,...

Alec had his neuro consult today. First time he's been to neuro in about 4-5 years. Actually found out alot!!! His last mri was done when he was 3 mos old, so will do another in a few months, after genetic study comes back. Also checking his iron, vit d, carnitine, lactic acid, and thyroid levels, as well as lft and cbc...none of which have been done yet. He asked about the dysautonomia symptoms and signs off issues...however made a comment that a true dysautonomic...

So the other day, Daniel woke up after a bloody nose. His nose was all clogged up with dried blood. He always wakes up screaming and refluxing/puking (despite being j fed with his stomach being drained). After he had been up a little bit I noticed his breathing sounding a bit raspy when he exerted himself, but I figured it was just leftover from the night/reflux and exacerbated by the bloody nose because he couldn't breathe through his nose, etc. He's not really one to aspirate, though he...

I just heard back from the NP at the ENT office. Here we go again for surgery on Bryna. She needs her FOURTH set of ear tubes, tonsils removed, and her sinuses cleaned out again and turbinates removed. She is only 4. The only good news was that her adnoids did not grow back! The last two sinus surgeries she had were at 18 months and 22 months, but they were outpatient. I think I remember people saying that tonsil removal may need an overnight stay. Anyone know? I am finally back to...

I have posted before about my daughter's persistent redness and rash around the mouth. She always has it, primarily, I think from drooling and people constantly wiping her mouth and assisting her with a straw. I have tried it all, aquaphor, vaseline, Boudreaux's Butt paste, neosporin, desitin, etc. etc. etc. Over the past few days it has gotten significantly worse and spread. The only difference in her diet/meds is the addition of melatonin. I've been giving her a VERY small dose nightly...

Joey has been treated for iron deficiency anemia for the last 4-5 weeks. He's been taking 60mg of oral ferrous sulfate per day. His hemoglobin was initially 8.4 (I think normal is 11.5). His iron saturation, ferritin and other iron labs were also quite low. We re-checked a CBC and with iron labs and retic count on Monday. Apparently the hemoglobin has risen to an impressive 11 :). However, his retic count is lower than normal now even though it was in the normal range initially....

Amanda had her wrist MRI on monday after a break that happened Dec 18. She has been casted for 8 weeks and in a brace for 3 weeks and still having tons of pain so they did an MRI with contrast. Ortho called today, she has a torn ligament so he is referring us to their hand specialist for a surgery consult. The soonest opening is March 15, 2 weeks away. Ugh!!!

It went REALLY well, except for the fact he was running late, but that's normal for him. Anyhow, he said that his right ear looks great, YAY! He said the left ear still has fluid but doesn't *appear* to be infected. He does think; however, that b/c of the amount of pain he's still having there *could* be infection and wanted to do another round of antibiotics just in case. He wanted to use Cefzil but I asked him not to, because it constipated the boy so badly. He was shocked that he'd had...

It all started with Tim, he woke up yesterday morning saying that his throat hurt and that he had a headache. I let him stay home because he was obviously just miserable and took Wes to school. I came home and for the first time really checked him out. He was so warm I took his temp and it was 101.9 so I called the ped immediatly and we were lucky enough to get him in just over an hour later. My mind was thinking sinus infection because those are pretty common with Tim. We got there and they...

The urodynamics results are showing high bladder pressure, what does this actually mean? Is there medication to help? What causes this to happen? I really hope someone can help me understand it better.