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Date: | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:42:53 -0400 |
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This sounds very challenging, but, as I have posted on this child before,
there is nothing normal or simple about what is going on. Normal children
do not aspirate. The baby sounds as if it's been injured (with evidence of
facial asymmtetry, discoordinated tongue movements, poor feeding and now
aspiration) or has something equally or much more serious going on. This
child also, as you had previously posted, had colored emesis. I would
guess, with evidence on swallow study that the baby is aspirating, that the
cyanotic episode was not just reflux and that this child has difficulty
protecting the airway. I would urge you to be cautious in your
recommendations until the underlying cause of this baby's problems is more
aggressively investigated.
Jenny Thomas, MD, FAAP, IBCLC
www.drjen4kids.com
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