The amazing journey of a brave, fun-loving, creative boy who is enduring and has overcome so much already: failure to thrive, feeding tube dependency, food allergies, silent reflux, pulmonary valvar stenosis, chiari malformation, syringomyelia, retroflexed odontoid, mild bilateral hearing loss, a blood coagulation disorder, and Noonan Syndrome.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Auggie is on an appetite stimulant
We don't know why Auggie doesn't eat very much, but we now have him on periactin which is an anti-histamine but also acts as an appetite stimulant. I mix it in with his yogurt. He's been getting 1ml twice a day, but I might try increasing it to three times a day. He has increased the amount of solids he eats by about 50% and his drinking by about 20%, so it seems to be working. Now we're just waiting for the extra calories to translate into extra ounces.
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