I meant to post this right after the visit, but things got busy here. Dagney had her GI follow-up last Friday (1 1/2 weeks ago). At the time we had been dairy-free for 2 weeks, without any real change (not that I expected any!). First of all, I want to say how much better this visit was from the previous ones. Dagney was SUCH a good girl, she didn’t cry at all! (Last time was the most horrendous time I’ve ever had, she cried and cried and cried and sobbed so much, I don’t think they’d seen anything like it before!!) She let them weigh her (she actually stood on the little scale for them), take her height, and even take her temp and blood pressure!! She even got blood drawn–that she did cry for, but do you blame her? She calmed down very quickly, and was looking for her “boon” (I’d promised her a balloon after it!). She was really good at the previous Pedi visit too the week before for her sinusitis–I prepped her with her Elmo doctor kit, and now whenever you mention any doctors, she says “look in ears”, “listen to tummy”, no matter what type of doc it is, even if we’re going to my ob visit!
Anyway, I mentioned to the GI that our Pedi pushed us to do a dairy-free trial, which didn’t really make any difference, but that the tomatoes seem to really be a problem for her. She looked at me like I was crazy for ever giving them to her in the first place, apparently the “GERD” diet hand-out that they probably gave me at her first visit (when she was 3 months and only drinking formula!) must have said no juices, citrus, TOMATOES… Well, I didn’t know that! She said to hold off on tomatoes for the time being, but put her back on a regular diet otherwise for 2 weeks. Then take away the morning Axid dose, then wait 6 weeks and take away the 2nd axid dose, then after another 6 weeks, we can start trialing milk. By then we’ll be in for another follow-up, so we’ll go over the how-to’s of that then. She also wanted to test for allergies. I told her we were going to see an allergist next week, but they did the blood test anyway (which was good, because I never had her blood drawn at 1 year, so she added in for them to do the lead & anemia tests that they normally do at ages 1 & 2). What a relief that was, we were in the childrens clinic, so we got people who are used to dealing with little ones!
So, so far so good. We’ll be taking away her morning dose of Axid on Friday–wish us luck! The big excitement of the day was just how good Dagney was, I was soooo relieved that her doctor visit terror may be behind her now! Hooray for Dagney!!
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) anyway, like you, I have high hopes that I’ll find out more from the allergist. Good luck with the rest of the axid weaning. I am so glad things are good so far!beth- our allergist said no antihistimines for 5 days prior. LOL they must all say something different.
