intestinal adhesions
From: Karen (red29k@yahoo.com)
Fri Mar 18 14:34:38 2005
Hi! My seven year old had emergency surgery
to remove inestinal adhesions about 3 weeks
ago. When he was 9 months old he had to have
a fundoplication for reflux. He had complications
from the fundo which caused him to have
paratanitis, from that he developed two
adhesions which had to be removed. All this
happen in a 3 week time period. He has had no
trouble until now. He was fine one Tuesday, ate
a big dinner at 6pm and by 7 was on the floor
with abdominal pain. Could no pass stools, gas
and couldn't physically vomit because of the fundo.
He was admitted to the hospital Wed. morning, a
ng tube was inserted to suction his stomach contents
and was taken to surgery Thurs. morning.
His surgeon said that he had too many adhesions to
count and that every part of his intestines where
attached to themselves or something else in is abdomen.
My question is with this occuring this early in age
is he going to have to deal with these things all
his life? Is there anything we can do to help prevent
a recurrence? And does it take that long for them to
develop or can they develope and cause an obstruction
in a much shorter such as weeks, months, couple of
years, etc?
Thanks in advance for the info.
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Karen
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