Mesmerized by the fish tank in the waiting room.
We took Ledger to the ENT and it went a lot better than we expected. They numbed his little nose with a spray, and then swaddled him in a blanket, which made it easy for us to hold him down. The Dr. quickly took a look inside his nose with a tiny camera and we learned:
Ledger has extremely swollen adenoids
Swollen turbinates
A deviated septum
His adenoids and deviated septum block off about 70% of his breathing.
All the signs added up, including why he struggled breast feeding, constant drool, and sleepless nights.
We are going to wait a month and try a spray to see if it helps with allergies, and the turbinates.Then we will discuss surgery.
We can't wait to have Ledger breathing better, it will give me a little more peace when I put him down to sleep each night.
We sure do love this little guy.
Thanks for all your comments, I learned a lot from all of you about
adenoids/tonsils/turbinates and even herniated belly buttons. Looks like
Ledge may have his belly button sticking out for much longer than we
expected!
Hi Ashley, I'm sure living in a small place like we do you've already tried or heard of Melaleuca but I've just heard that they are awesome for allergies. So if that's what Ledger has maybe you'd want to look into it if you haven't already? My kids don't have allergies but I've heard it works miracles and I know their stuff works for us in other ways. Hope he gets better soon!
ReplyDeleteWhitney McKee
Are you seeing McMaster? I went to him after several horrible appts with an ENT in IF for Gage. Gage has tubes in both ears. He also noticed that Gage's upper lip turns up more which indicates he can't breath very well through his nose (bad allergies, and also explains the drool). Anyways, glad you got things figured out a bit more :)
ReplyDeleteOh man... Getting Lucas tonsils and adnoids out was the best thing we ever did. He had the tubes put in too. But he also couldn't breath and was so restless at night. They said his adnoids were blocking 85 % of his nose breathing. He now sleeps so much better and not restless.
ReplyDeleteoh i bet you are so glad to have a doctors reassurance and "diagnosis"! he is still such a stud, even with a cute little open mouth.. but i'm sure he will be much happier once he can breath easier!! and about the belly button? It's not just an outtie belly button? kins has an outtie too so just curious about that - never heard about a herniated belly button?
ReplyDeleteMy husband used to always snore, always had to breath out of this mouth. He had surgery as an adult to fix his deviated septum and get rid of his tonsils. It has been night and day for him- he can actually breath through his nose now and has never snored since!
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ReplyDeleteJust wanted to share that I pretty much had the same issues when I was his age. But I had horrible tonsils as well. WHen I was 5 they had to take my adenoids and tonsils out. But because of the damage it tried to do to my ears, I had to go to speech therapy because the infection didn't allow my ears to hear words properly. (they said I heard everything, but as if I had earmuffs on) I missed the beginning sounds on more than half of my words and the others, I think I just got lucky. Just something to watch out for. I know, one more thing. Have a great week.
~ Natasha
Try taking him off of milk products for a couple of weeks - it makes a huge difference!
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to second try getting rid of dairy for several weeks. My son always sounded raspy and the second day off of dairy he was normal. We have been dairy-free now for almost 10 months and I wouldn't go back. He use to get sick all the time and now no more.
ReplyDeleteSo glad Ledger will be just fine. You and Pat are amazing parents, your children are so lucky. And Preslee and Ledger are such sweet beautiful kids!
ReplyDeleteYour little guy is so cute. I hope his issues resolve themselves soon. Allergies can also cause a lot of the same type of breathing problems so I hope the spray helps. I love your son's infectious smile. He has happiness written all over his face.
ReplyDeleteWell I am glad that you have figured it out and I hope that it can be fixed soon! It will be awesome when you can breathe little buddy! Good luck! Much love!
ReplyDeleteI have to second the milk products. My son started off like this last year and it got worse and worse and we went to every doctor/specialist. It got so bad that it was dangerous and we didn't know what to do and we were finally told to try a no dairy diet. We got him on some pro-biotics and his pediatrician was amazed. He was better within a week and he'd been to the emergency room for breathing problems twice before that. Not only that, but he stopped getting sick all the time. He hasn't been sick since and it's been a year. We used to catch everything. Dairy isn't really what it used to be. It was a hard transition but at least we solved his problem. Just a thought, might not be your problem. I just thought I'd throw that out because it looked and sounded like our little guy.
ReplyDeletemy daughter was hospitalized at age 2- she couldnt breath when she was sleeping- her oxygen dropped in the 60s. it was soo scary- we had no idea why. She needed a new set of tubes, we then decided to go ahead with that in hopes that may help out- come to find out her adenoids were HUGE- blocking her breathing. seriously- it was like a whole new person. It was such a relief to not have to worry about her struggling to breath at night. she is now almost 8, and her health took a big leap from that point. best choice we made. Hope your sweet boy gets to feeling better so he can be more like himself! ;)
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