I'm sure I've posted about how James was my needy, colicky baby for the first three months of his life. Well, we got past that and he became happy, which was wonderful. But, now he's trying to be a troublemaker again!
James has had a cough since he was about three weeks old. He coughs pretty much every day, but it's nothing serious. I mentioned it when we switched pediatricians and the doctor decided we should get it checked out. So, we went in for a chest x-ray, which was clear (we expected this ...). And then we went and did a swallow study. The swallow study was a lot of fun because James got to flirt with the nurses and they fed him pudding (I don't think he cared that it was laced with barium)! The point of that test was to make sure he was protecting his airway when he ate (which he is) and that he wasn't experiencing reflux when he ate (which he is not).
So, the last step was to see the pediatric pulmonology people. They determined that James-boy is a pig! Actually, what they said is that James over eats and causes himself to spit up. The cough is likely the result of two things: first, when he spits up, he inhales tiny bits of that fluid back into his lungs and second, he might have a bit of asthma. Neither of these things surprised us because his pediatricians have thought this all along. But, it was good to get the same information from the specialists.
We've been told that the cough isn't really a big deal, but we don't want him to inhale too much fluid into his lungs, so we're trying a few things to take care of the issue. But, I think James is just showing us that he is going to be our little troublemaker!
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