Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Sick Baby

ugh.

Last Friday we had our first sick baby visit.  Dixon hadn't really been sleeping more than 45 minutes at a time and would wake up with terrible tummy pain.  He was also asking to eat every hour and oftentimes spitting up most of what he was taking in.  I waited a week to see if it was a growth spurt and finally called the pediatricians office.

We were diagnosed with thrush and a ingestion intolerance which we think is triggered by legumes.  The treatment for the thrush is gentian violet extract and we will put up some pictures of his purple mouth once I grab them off the other camera.

Amazingly once we started the probiotic and the thrush treatment he has returned to his 2 hour schedule.  Now if we can just push that to three...

2 comments:

Stephie Girl said...

Just curious about the legumes... are those in formula? Soy, I guess?

Shelley said...

Well often there is soy in formula but we don't use any formula right now. The pedi took all beans off my diet because D has a hard time when I eat any beans or bean products.