Dear Friends:
    Judi spoke about a baby with a large tongue that is growing. In my new
copy of Clinical Lactation: A Visual Guide by Auerbach and Riordan, there is
a picture of a baby with hemangioma of the tongue, which looks painful and is
described as a benign vascular tumor of the tongue. The comment is made that
if untreated, it "may interfere with ability to feed by causing increasing
obstruction." And I know of another syndrome where a large tongue is part of
the clinical picture; again, surgery is recommended.
    Would the parents see an ENT, or a pediatric surgeon? Sometimes a clinic
at a medical school will have a pediatrician on staff who has been around a
long time and seen a lot. Warmly, Nikki Lee

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