May 25, 2012
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Child with recurrent vomiting and bad breath |
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Dear Ask The Doctor: I am not sure how to really ask this but my poor baby is suffering and I need HELP the GI Dr she sees doesn't know and I am desperate to help my baby who is suffering missing school and having her quality of life effected. Starting froom top to bottom of gi issues her breath normaly smells like rottin stool no matter what we do she get reallly bad stomach pain that makes her blood courtal scream anywhere from 10 mins to 2 hours she will vommit for no reason even with no pain and she feels like she needs to vommit alot but cant expecialy with the pain and the has a lot of trouble going to the bathroom they say she is constipated but not for 8 years people she does have other health issues as well and we have been on very gi medicand they can give to a child and have just finialy started doing some testing but dont know where we go from here so far everything has come back normal which is bad we want them to find something anything at this point it can be bad as long as we find it Dear Rose: It is difficult for a mother to see her children suffer and I can understand your concern. In my opinion, vomiting and bad breath (halitosis) all suggestive of a reflux disease. Generally physicians treat this condition with medication that decrease the acid content in the stomach. Your doctor has started your child on this treatment (Prevasid). If the symptoms are not relieved on this medication, the next step would be a 24 hour pH probe done by a specialist. Endoscopy is another test that can be done to see if there is any damage in the lining of esophagus and stomach and is performed if empiric treatment fails. |
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