Endoscopy

[Anonymous]

Good Morning. My son has an enoscopy scheduled for this thursday. Can anyone tell me what exactly they are looking for or would be able to see when doing one of these? My son has suffered from Reflux for a while. He was on Prevacid (solutabs) when he as an infant, and now is is on Prilosec (20mg) and a childrens tums. He seems to be refluxing bad again, I can hear the congestion in his noise and throat when he breaths, he is arching his back allot, coughing allot, and nasty throw up type burps! He did have a scope at 4 months by an ENT surgen but cannot remember what they are going to do. Thank you

[Anonymous]

they will look for inflammation, thrush, eosinophils and anything else that might be out of order. the doc may come out and say everything looked fine—but he really can’t see anything—it is what they see on the microscopic level that tells them what is really going on. they should also take biopsies while they are down there—i guess they have to, that’s how they can look at things on a microscopic level.

our ped gi actually let me stay in and watch while he did a scope on one of my daughters–hea had me stand right next to him and hold on to her hands to keep her from putting them up to her face—talk about a wrestling match!!! she was out enough and didn’t remember a thing even though she kept wanting to put her hand up to her face.

[Anonymous]

Well we had the endoscope done on Thursday last week. The doc said that there is nothing structually wrong and there is no damage done although he as able to tell that he does have reflux. They took some biopsies of his esophigus and his small intestine. Those resluts should be back in 5-7 business days I guess,

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