Sorry to hear about your awful ER experience.... curious about your son's
symptoms getting worse!?? Our GI keeps insisiting most kids outgrow this-- and
that it should get better overtime.... any thoughts anyone??? Mimi
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From: "mamatlc2000" <OneSmartCooke@...>
> Elizabeth -
>
> Both my kiddos use the sublingual Zofran. It is WONDERFUL! It has
> helped with the vomitting and nausea with both kiddos.
>
> When my 6yo dd starts vomitting, I put the Zofran on her tongue and
> it stops the episode. Her CVS is very minor and helped with just
> the Zofran. She usually wakes up in the middle of the night or
> early in the morning, vomits, I give her Zofran and she goes back to
> bed.
>
> My 10yo ds is another story. His episodes are getting worse and
> longer. We give him Imitrex nasal spray to knock him out and the
> Zofran for the vomitting and nausea. We tried Ativan to knock him
> out and that did not work. The last episode, we could not get under
> control so we ended up in the ER. It took 2 hrs. before they did
> anything for him. I was so mad!!! I understand their need to make
> sure that is what is wrong but to make a kiddo suffer for that long
> was very upsetting. His screaming in pain was scaring the other
> children in the ER! They did x-rays, an ultrasound and bloodwork
> before they would do anything. They wouldn't even give him any
> liquids through an IV even though he was dehydrated. It was
> terribly frustrating! GGRR!!
>
> We are hoping this was a one time thing for him. In case it is not,
> the GI wrote us up a protocol so we can have him admitted for 24 hrs
> and then get him medicated without dealing without all the other
> stuff. There is no need to make him suffer!
>
> We have an EXCELLENT GI Dr. No one else would believe us nor did
> they know what to do for him. We got an excellent referral from
> someone on this list. If you are in Denver or Colorado Springs, Dr.
> Barrios is WONDERFUL!!!
>
> Terry
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