justwannaquilt

My son had surgery for pyloric stenosis at 14 days old. It is NOT always an allergic reaction. Nor is it always gas. We got the diagnosis through ultra sound. He threw up every bottle for four days and was down almost two pounds from birth weight. I took him to the dr. and told her I thought he had this she thought it was something different. Statistics show that a first born male child is most likely to have it and it doesn't normally show up until 6+ weeks after birth. 5 hours later I was on my way to St. Louis with my 13 day old child. He was the fourth born, third male! He had surgery the following day after getting a ton of fluids because he was VERY dehydrated and they could not do surgery that day! He was 9 weeks old at finally back up to birth weight!

A little medical lesson....
It has nothing to do with the belly button!
Normally, food passes easily from the stomach into the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine) through a valve called the pylorus. In pyloric stenosis, the muscles of the pylorus are thickened. This thickening prevents the stomach from emptying into the small intestine. The muscles get so thick that it closes off and nothing gets through. The only place for the stomach contents to go is out the way they came in!