Jim has acid reflux, his mother has acid reflux and her father had it really bad. So, we started to treat it like acid reflux and restricted a couple of typical acid reflux producing foods. Tomato-based products, chocolates, fried foods, etc. Believe it or not, the one she had the hardest time with was the tomatoes. She loves tomatoes! But this girl has dedication. No whining or complaining about her restrictions, she just did it and often reminded us that she couldn't have that.
After a couple of months of us trying to curb the episodes still rearing its ugly head (which were traumatic and lengthy), there were a couple more episodes that weren't related to anything school related. So off to the Pediatric Gastroenterology Dept at Shands.
Before our appt. in Gainesville, she was given a Rx for Zantac and we were told to try it for a couple of months.
It helped.
She didn't feel the desire to sleep sitting up nor have the pre-vomit feeling she had for each episode which was nearing about 2-4 times per month.
So we made the trek to Gainesville to have a specialist look over her. We sent her in to have an endoscopy and the biopsy results came back normal. Good news and not great news all in one. Good news was there's nothing overtly wrong with her esophagus. Not so great news was that we don't know exactly what is causing all the episodes. Even better news is that the medicine is working and keeping her symptoms at bay. She's able to reach it herself, does a pretty good job remembering to take it twice a day and the side effects are minimal.
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That's where we are. We'll see if anything changes in the next 6 months with her taking the medicine and have another visit with the Dr.
Sounds like it might be a good case for genetics. I'm waiting on pins and needles to see who inherits my allergies. :(
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