Does haemangioma need to be treated? My son
(admittedly 31 years ago!) had a haemangioma in
the eye area, and we did not know how big it
would grow....as it happened, it grew to the size
of a cherry and did not affect his sight . It was
not treated in any way, though of course this
baby may have a different sort of haemangioma and
it may be affecting sight.
My undersanding is that haemangiomas disappear
(as his did, eventually). Propanolol seems a
heavy-duty med to give to a five-month-old baby -
and yes, what on earth would be the justificstion
for giving formula afterwards? Could it be the
doc just meant 'feed the baby afterwards' and
just assumed formula feeding? It needs
challeging, IMO.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
>My name is Cathy Urroz, IBCLC and LLLeader from
>Guadalajara, Mexico. PTP I´m hoping you can
>help me here, a mother contacted me for my
>opinion on the following: her five month old
>baby has a hemangioma in eye area, the treatment
>will be propanolol drops, and the dermatologist
>told her that one of the side effects of this
>medicine is lowering glucose and told her she
>needs to feed a bottle of formula after
>administering the drops. I almost fainted,
>never heard of this before. She would not like
>to have to do this, but she´s worried that her
>milk won´t be good for her baby´s glucose
>levels. This doesn´t sound logical to me, but
>since I have no medical or nursing background, I
>wouldn´t know where to begin searching for an
>answer for this. Thank you for your help,
>sending hugs and blessings to all, Cathy Urroz
>
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