I have a referral for a Paediatric Gastroenteroligist. I am going to sit on it for a while and see how he goes.
I asked my SIL who is Speech Path and explained the symptons. She said it could be a small airway.
If I go ahead, he would probably get a referral for a Barium drink investigation, my SIL explained this may not show up anything and may need to go in an have a look.
We have had one or two episodes, lots of coughing and spluttering, so I think I will ring later in the week, see how long (I am assuming a very long wait) and book him in and decided between now and the appointment.
It's such a tough one, he is a happy thriving boy otherwise.
Well I have him booked in for Dr Barry Lipschitz at Cabrini Childrens Centre 11th July. Not as long waiting as I thought.
They said I would be out of pocket $125 for the initial consultation, again I was surprised as I thought it would be alot more.
I decided to go ahead as I would really kick myself if it was something we could acutally 'fix' or control. He starts school next year so I also didn't want phone calls from school about him vomitting.
I have just had one from Kinder and had to explain that it's just him and I am having him investigated, have had this from creche also. They said he was fine, just letting me know as gastro has been going around.
I also have a SIL who is a Dietitian and she said it's not really normal.
I just hope it turns out to be nothing, he is just such and easy going, loving and nice boy (biased of course) and has already had to deal with specialists and anaesthetics for other things.
Heather only just come across this now but how often does it happen? Only asking cos my DS2 is similar to an extent, he will vomit when his tummy is over full (i presume anyway). He full on projectile vomits on sour cream even if it in something that has a minute amount and is virtually cooked out but is ok to have yogurt etc. I know it isn't allergies cos it only happens occasionally. Even a couple of weeks ago he did the biggest vomit in his bed from having water, the whole stomach contents come up it was massive.
It can happen up to twice a week. It will go in spurts. He will be OK for a while then he eats something and out it and the rest of stomach contents come.
He was similar to your DS2 with dairy as baby. We went through all the allergy testing and it was not conclusive, so we were advised to avoid dairy for a while and slowly re-introduce it. It's funny, as it was more in cooked foods rather uncooked dairy.
His seems to more a valve issue I think or the food goes down the wrong way and his pallet or valve can't sort out what to do and he just vomits after much gagging, coughing and spluttering, if that makes sense. My SIL is Speech Path in another State and asked her about it and she said even if he puts too much food in his mouth, his system still should only take little bits a time and this is not quite normal.
I am pretty sure he doesn't have any food intolerances and I think the vomiting when he was little was similar to what I am going through now rather than the dairy? It's been going on for quite some time.
I have been advised by my GP that this specialist has quite and interest in these sorts of cases, so hopefully we will get some answers.
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