8/28/2007 - Still having diaper issues

Well we had a problem with Logan's diaper again last Tuesday night so we had to take him to the Pediatrician again. AGAIN they changed his formula, this time to Elecare. It is an Amino Acid based elemental formula that is broken down to it's simplest form. THe Nutramigen, although it has no milk or soy protein, it does have bits of broken down milk protein. He obviously is very allergic to it. He is doing pretty good on it so far. It's pretty spendy, but worth it if he doesn't have any more bad diapers. We went to the GI doctor yesterday to have everything checked out since we have had so many problems already. The doctor said that the Elecare "should" take care of the poop problems. He went ahead and gave us a few things to look further into: 1) He is doing a stool culture to see if there is any bacteria. If there is, then they will give him some antibiotics. He said it should take 2-3 days to see the results; 2) He had us do some blood work to see if there was anything to see there and to make sure that he wasn't anemic; 3) He changed us off the AXID acid reflux medicine (finally - I really don't think it was doing anything for him). He changed it to infant Prevacid which has to be mixed by a medicine doctor! (You got it - Spendy!); 4) He told us to add cereal to his bottle. he said it will hopefully help with the acid reflux by making it thicker and it will help to make his stool a little more consistent; 5) He is having us have an Upper GI next week(he will have to drink something and they watch it go through his insides to make sure everything is working properly and is where it is supposed to be).

All in all I felt good that we are at least doing something to check everything out. I will update after we have the Upper GI done next week. Good news - we have had 2 "pretty good" days so far so we will see..........