After spending 8 hours in the ER at Phoenix Children's, we have a diagnosis of Norovirus and Cdiff! I have no idea how he caught anything as we are home bound and super careful even at home. I guess we did go to the dentist and got FLU shots.. but we were super careful! His poor tummy has been hurting the last few days and he had a 5lb weight loss. He is still eating and was acting okay, up until yesterday. He started laying around and didn't want any tube feeds. Of course I do everything I can to treat at home and even blended up the BRAT diet to put into his tube. Nothing worked. :(
This morning we got up and off to the ER. I had them run two stool samples to be certain of the diagnosis. His labs looked great and his echo is unchanged. I was thrilled to hear it was a 'normal' issue, but Cdiff!? Really!? How did he get Cdiff? When he was inpatient at Stanford after two weeks on IV antibiotics we tested a couple times and it was always negative. We will do a 10 day course of oral Vanco and hopefully be rid of it!
Logi has been his energetic self, but did puke up a bottle of milk just before bed last night and then was warm throughout the night. Not warm enough to wake him for Tylenol, but warm(ish). I'm guessing he has Norovirus as well, but he doesn't have any Cdiff symptoms.
We will hold diuretics one a day until his eyes aren't looking so dark and sunken. He seems hydrated and is getting tons of fluids in his gtube. Just not a lot of calories or nutrition because it seems to exasperate the symptoms.
I just scrubbed my house, used Lysol on all the doorknobs and switches, bleach on the toilets. Darn germs. Thank you for all the prayers!!
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Oh no! C-diff is awful and very contagious. Praying that Owen gets well soon and that no one else gets it!
Poor guy!! So glad that his heart is okay though! Continued prayers that both boys feel better soon.
Bleach everything! C.Diff is horrible and it will rear it's ugly head again when you least expect it. Both of my sons have dealt with it....yes, even Brian unfortunately. The last time was three months ago and a new hospital guideline wouldn't allow Vancomycin to be used first line, so Flagyl it was. Monitoring the Tacro levels was hell. 😕 I hope Owen recovers quickly and never has to deal with it again! Oh...if he can tolerate yogurt, it helps. We were told to avoid probiotic capsules/tabs/powders with Brian, but the active cultures in yogurt is ok.
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