theas potassium keeps going up
ok, this is getting sent to p101, p102, brestfeeding, and my own journal. this is written at 4 am, so yes there are spelling mistakes so suck it.
my DD (4 months) had some blood drawn when we were in emerge for her reflux. they tested her potassium as a rutine draw. we ended up going on boxing day to the doctor who was covering our GP as her potassium and blood count was high. he wanted to re do the potassium becouse it was done as a heal stick and thought it could be artificaly elevated. and wanted to get a blood draw from a vein so to go to the hosptal.
we went on last tuesday to get a blood draw from the hosptal (monday they were closed becouse of boxing day) and yesterday i got a call that we needed to come in ASAP and we went in and found out that her potassium taken from the vein was even higher then the heal poke.
He checked her out, and said her fontanel *sp?* is slightly sunken in, so she is dehydrated, but not enough to warent going to the ER. Just to give her elecotrolites *sp?* every time she spits up and not to give her milk or formula for 20 mins after a spit up.
Now this is wehere is is concerned. He said she is shwoing sighns of dehydration. With deyhidration he says her potassium should be down, not up. She is acting fine except for the spitting up, heart rate is good. He says it could be one of 20 diffrent things. the first being Kidney failure (but the additonal test that he did with the seccond potassium came back that its mostlikely not kidney failure), then it could be addisons disease, or diabities, or a bunch of other things.
we have a long list of stuff that he is testing on monday when the labs at the hopstal are open to the general public. stuff like an AM cortozal *sp?*, glucose, insulan *sp?*, and others....
now have any of you ever had this issue with your baby?
now becouse of my lack of suply she is also taking formula. My father brought up a question for me to ask you brestfeeding woman. can my brestmilk be high in potassium? i dont eat a lot of bananas, im only on celexia.
now for you women who are reading this and are in the Vancouver BC area. Im desperatly looking for doner milk. even more so now with all these issues going on. please contact me via a DM here on LJ.
please keep Thea in your prayers. im worried as hell about my baby, i have to work a 7 hour shift today, and im scared that she is going to get sicker. please pray for her.
my DD (4 months) had some blood drawn when we were in emerge for her reflux. they tested her potassium as a rutine draw. we ended up going on boxing day to the doctor who was covering our GP as her potassium and blood count was high. he wanted to re do the potassium becouse it was done as a heal stick and thought it could be artificaly elevated. and wanted to get a blood draw from a vein so to go to the hosptal.
we went on last tuesday to get a blood draw from the hosptal (monday they were closed becouse of boxing day) and yesterday i got a call that we needed to come in ASAP and we went in and found out that her potassium taken from the vein was even higher then the heal poke.
He checked her out, and said her fontanel *sp?* is slightly sunken in, so she is dehydrated, but not enough to warent going to the ER. Just to give her elecotrolites *sp?* every time she spits up and not to give her milk or formula for 20 mins after a spit up.
Now this is wehere is is concerned. He said she is shwoing sighns of dehydration. With deyhidration he says her potassium should be down, not up. She is acting fine except for the spitting up, heart rate is good. He says it could be one of 20 diffrent things. the first being Kidney failure (but the additonal test that he did with the seccond potassium came back that its mostlikely not kidney failure), then it could be addisons disease, or diabities, or a bunch of other things.
we have a long list of stuff that he is testing on monday when the labs at the hopstal are open to the general public. stuff like an AM cortozal *sp?*, glucose, insulan *sp?*, and others....
now have any of you ever had this issue with your baby?
now becouse of my lack of suply she is also taking formula. My father brought up a question for me to ask you brestfeeding woman. can my brestmilk be high in potassium? i dont eat a lot of bananas, im only on celexia.
now for you women who are reading this and are in the Vancouver BC area. Im desperatly looking for doner milk. even more so now with all these issues going on. please contact me via a DM here on LJ.
please keep Thea in your prayers. im worried as hell about my baby, i have to work a 7 hour shift today, and im scared that she is going to get sicker. please pray for her.