Our little guy had some X-Rays yesterday and saw the Pediatrician.
He had to swallow some barium so they could see what his system was doing with the food as he ate. It seems that the food enters his stomach properly but isn’t released into the rest of his digestive system as fast as it should be. Nothing serious as far as they are concerned and they figure he should grow out of it. He hasn’t thrown up since last Thursday so that gives us some hope. The pediatrician also said there are medicines available, but all medicines have side effects and he would rather we keep track of his progress for a while without any medicine. (Yay!!) He feels Nicholas is a very healthy little boy and is growing and hitting his milestones wonderfully.
The procedure was referred to as a GI and Nicholas had to lay on his right side while he drank the Barium and then his bottle. We could see what the x-ray machine was seeing and it was pretty neat to see the barium flow into his stomach. The techs were great and and very friendly. Nicholas did great as well for an 11-month old who had been fasting since the night before and was now being fed Barium instead of milk.
We went to Subway for dinner and Nicholas loved the Broccoli soup they had.
Rene