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Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:58:47 EDT
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The toddler, now 15 months old, that I've been working with for the past six
months has finally started gaining after not gaining for 7 months.  She was
the baby who HRS had hospitalized with diagnosis of FTT.  She had been
hospitalized for a week and had all types of test which showed no clue to why
she had stopped gaining weight.  HRS concluded it must be due to neglect on
the part of the mother. At that time, she had little interest in eating though
she did enjoy nursing frequently (HRS felt if the mother would stop
breastfeeding or limit it and feed more, baby would gain).  After mom got her
out of hospital, she changed doctors to my office and we have been doing
weekly weight checks and working with mom to get this child gaining since.  I
think it's been about a month ago that I posted her estimated caloric intake
of about 750-800 calories per day and her weight was then 14 lbs. 1 oz.  She
was taking in about 15 oz of breastmilk in 24 hr (used Baby Weigh Scale) and
another 350-450 calories of solids.  Still no gain.  She then had her second
ear infection in about three months, the first of which followed her hospital
stay.

So many of you responded to that post.  It was incredible!   Several made the
suggestion that maybe the problem was due to allergies.  I was starting to
think along these lines myself with the second ear infection.  I shared all
your post with the mother and we agreed that two foods should be removed from
her diet, dairy and peanut butter.  Peanut butter was replace with almond
butter.  In the past 2 weeks, she has gained a whole pound!

When I shared her weight gain with the Dr. Carr  (the doc that I work for who
was willing to go to court for this mother if HRS didn't back off), he was so
excited that he almost did back flips. He said we should write a paper about
this case entitled, "Just because you smell dog poop, Doesn't mean there's
crap"  and be sure that HRS gets a copy of it.

Thanks so very much to all of you who offered suggestions and encouragement.
Special thanks to Karen Zeretzke for sharing your thoughts on malabsorbtion of
nutrients due to allergies.

Warmly,
Pat Lindsey, IBCLC near Orlando, FL

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