My 7 1/2 week old daughter had an endoscopy today (she has been spitting up 20-30 times a day, has severe reflux, gags, chokes, blood flecks in her spit up for the past 2 weeks) and the craziest thing happened!
Before she went in, she had red bumps all over the sides of her face, her chest and the back of her neck. We thought that it was infant acne or an irritation from constantly wearing bibs/spit up residue. There were hundreds of little red bumps!
Anyway, after her procedure we were in the recovery room with her and I was feeding her a bottle of pumped breastmilk. She was still receiving IV fluids through her hand. I noticed that there were dramatically fewer red bumps. It went from hundreds to maybe 10 or 20 tiny bumps!!!! Since we have been home (less than 8 hours since the procedure) they are completely GONE! Her skin is milky white with ZERO bumps.
We are almost positive that it is a result from the IV fluids flushing her system out and that it is a food sensitivity. Her endoscopy showed normal anatomical structures but her stomach was reddened and irritated. We are waiting on the biopsies but we are 99% sure it will come back positive for a food sensitivity. In the meantime we are using Elecare in lieu of the breastmilk.
I just had to share because it was SO dramatic. I am SO glad I noticed her skin changes. Now we just have to figure out what the food sensitivity is!
Good luck to all,
Deanna
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