Josh was a trooper

Josh's surgery went well and we were able to come home today. His adenoids are gone and hopefully his snorting and snoring will be a thing of the past soon. He also had a scope of his trachea/esophagus/stomach/small intestine to eval his reflux. His trachea and voice box were red and somewhat inflammed which is probably due to his reflux, but we can't be certain just yet. The pictures of his esophagus/stomach/small intestine were all normal - no major errosion or ulcers. So that is great news, but the GI Dr. said most kids at 2 years of age have normal anatomy still at this point (even with severe reflux). He took several biopsies at different levels of Josh's esophagus to futher eval the tissue, so we have to wait about 7-10 days to hear results on that. I guess if they are normal we keep treating his reflux as is (prevacid and now we added zantac back into the mix again), and if in a few years he is still having issues we eval him again. If the biopsies are positive, then I guess we look at more agressive treatment sooner (possible surgery to stop the reflux). Anyways, thank you all of your encourging posts on my previous post! It meant a lot to me

 

Amy, I'm glad to hear that it all went well. Kinda sad that he might have to live with the reflux for a few more years! :blink:

Let us know what the results yield! :hug99:

 

I'm glad to hear it went so well Amy! I hope you get good news from the GI doc!

 

:hug99: Hugs for the little man! What a trooper! When my oldest son had his tonsils and adenoids out the snoring stopped immediately.

Hang in there with the reflux. My fingers are crossed for relief soon!

-Kimberly

 

Glad things went well!

 

wow, that's great! i'm so happy that things went so well for you all and especially for Josh! nice that you got to take him home the same day. i hope he is feeling back to himself asap. keep us posted on how he's doing.

 

Glad to hear that he is doing well!!

 

I'm glad that his surgery went well and you guys are home recouperating! Hopefully, you'll get some answers soon on his reflux, I hate that he will probably have to deal with it for some time to come though!

 

I am glad the surgery went well! I am so sorry to hear you are still dealing with the reflux. DD JUST outgrew it (we're talking 20-30 spitups a day). I haven't read your other post, but I am curious if you tried the med Zegerid? It REALLY helped with Brooklyn's spit up and overall comfort level. We had to go to a GI spec to get it perscribed. HTH!

 

I'm glad to hear that the surgery went well. Keep us updated on the reflux issues.

 

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I am glad the surgery went well! I am so sorry to hear you are still dealing with the reflux. DD JUST outgrew it (we're talking 20-30 spitups a day). I haven't read your other post, but I am curious if you tried the med Zegerid? It REALLY helped with Brooklyn's spit up and overall comfort level. We had to go to a GI spec to get it perscribed. HTH!


Thanks for the suggestion. We have seen a GI specalist, he is the one who did part of Josh's surgery. WE haven't tried Zegrid before, I actually haven't heard of it either, so I don't think it's used at all here ( I am a RN at Children's hospital which is where our GI Dr. practices, so I pretty much know what meds are used for reflux for all our patients plus my kiddos ). From what I can tell (I looked up Zegrid) it has the same main ingredient as Prilosec which we tried a long time ago when they were babies and it didn't help much at all for them. The strongest avalible med for GERD for children is Prevacid and my kiddos are on an adult dosage (30mg). Prevacid is a PPI (proton pump inhibitor) as is Zegrid, and our GI Dr said that all PPI's seem to be less effective at night even if given right before bedtime. That is why we are going to start Zantac again (we did this once before around the age of 8 months or so where they were on Prevacid and Zantac, but they were such irritable babies it was hard to tell what was the issue sometimes). I haven't started it yet though - to many meds at the moment. Amoxicillin twice a day for 10 days, tylenol or tylenol with codeine every 4 hours, and prevacid at bedtime is enough to shove in him right now!! Poor Josh had 9 meds today already! Yikes! Thank you for the suggestion though. I will ask about it at his post-op appt, just out of curosity.

 

I don't know a lot of the answers, all I know is we were on Prilosec from birth and it did NOTHING for us IMO. Within 1 week of the Zegrid (or, however it is spelled) DD was only spitting up 5x a day, a much happier baby and not waking at nighttime AT ALL. I do know that our pedi said the same thing about it being the "same" as prilosec, but the GI spec. said that it is a whole different med because you make a fresh batch everytime you use it, it's not a compound sitting in a bottle for a month. Our spec. also said that in the last year, he hasn't had one baby with reflux that didn't have substantial results from using it.

After we got on it, I was so sad for my daughter that she suffered for nearly 9 months of her life on the prilosec. I try to tell anyone and everyone with reflux as it can't hurt to try and if it helps - WOOHOO!!