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Hello everyone,

Please Please Help!!

I need help for my 2year old son, Eshaan. I have tried to provide as much information as I can remember. I hope to find a solution in your answers.

Eshaan's Background
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Ethinicity : Asian Indian
Living in : San Jose, California USA
Date of Birth : 9/1/00
Current Height: 40 inches
Current Weight: 30 lbs
Birth Height: 20 inches
Birth Weight: 7lbs
Vaccinations: up to date
Diet: Vegetarian

Overview
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Eshaan has had a stuffy nose EVERY DAY(I would like to emphasize on every day) since he was 9 1/2 months old. His cold like symptom starts off with a runny nose (clear discharge) on the first day to a mucousy formation(thick greenish yellow discharge) by the 5th or 6th day. This cycle keeps on repeating. He does not sleep well in the night..wakes up every couple of hours because he is unable to breath through his nose. He has developed dark circles under his eyes and has lost 1.5lbs in the last 2 months.

Detail about Eshaan
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When I was pregnant I was throwing up a lot. Infact I was losing weight the first three months. But the remainder of my pregnancy was wonderful. I did put on quite some weight. It was a healthy pregnancy. I was very active, I use to walk 1 and 1/2 mile everyday when I was pregnant. Till my last month I continued walking. Eshaan came 2 weeks early. It was a natural child birth. It took 7 and a 1/2 hours from dilation to delivery. It took me 2 and 1/2 hours of pushing and I was very exhausted fainted right after delivery.

Eshaan was a healthy baby. He was 7 pounds and 20 inches long. He had very smooth skin (and still does) and delicate features. I started breast feeding him immediately. Eshaan used to wake up every 1 and 1/2 hour during day and night. He never continuously slept even for 2 hours. This kept on going till he was 4 or 5 months old.

He started eating oatmeal cereal at the age of 4 months. He liked it. We also started feeding him Gerber fruits and vegetables. He was a very healthy baby. He started rolling over at the age of 4 1/2 months. He started sitting at the age of 6 1/2 months. He started crawling at the age of 8 1/2 months. Up until this point he was never sick. The first time ever he got sick was at the age of 9 months. He was hospitalized for 2days and monitored Ivy for dehydration due to vomiting and diarrhea. The doctors diagnosed it to be a stomach virus. I had stopped breast feeding at the age of 8 months. He was on formula (Similac), oatmeal cereal and Gerber food. We started to put him at a in house daycare when he was 9 months old. Also we started swimming classes (once a week for 8 weeks) right around the same time. His cold started around the same time...when he was 9/12-10months old. We stopped his swimming classed because we thought that the swimming constituted to the cold. That did not help either. Since then he has never been able to lose that cold not for a single day.

Eshaan started walking at the age of 10 1/2 months. We took him to India when he was 15 months old. Once again he had to be hospitalized for Stomach virus. He was dehydrated because of vomiting and Diarrhea. He was hospitalized 6days. But he did recover very fast and the rest of his stay in India was a lot of fun. When he was 22 months old he started to go to a pre-school like day care.

Up until Eshaan was two year old, he used to sometimes throw up towards the end of his feeding...I think he was too full and we did not know to stop.

When Eshaan was 26 months old, he had developed a fever which went up to 104. We had to take him to ER for his fever was 104. They gave him Motrin and Codine and he was okay after that. That was sometime in November of last year. A few days after we recovered, there was another incident. Eshaan was in our sight and was playing with other kids. All of a sudden he started to cough and his face started to turn red. For about 7-10 seconds it seemed like he could not breath because something was stuck in his throat. I put my fingers in his mouth and made him throw up. Some food came out but nothing that could have blocked his wind pipe. We had called 911 but by the time they got there he was fine.

On January 3rd when Eshaan cam back from daycare, he had a a slight fever. This developed into a prolonged fever for 4 days and a cough build up in his chest. We stayed home with him up until today. He went back to his daycare today. He still has some cough in his Chest/Throat but is okay. Since Jan 3rd he has become very lethargic and does not seem to have much energy. He still eats okay. His dark circles have become more prominent and sometimes the bottom of his eye becomes a bit puffy. He seems to be a lot more pale than before. We have talked to our pediatrician and he thinks it is allergies. We went through a series of allergy tests (apparently they are not too reliable) but all came up negative. The allergist has asked us to give him Dimetapp Cold and Allergy (an antihistamine)...1/2 a tsp every night before he goes to sleep. Does not seem to have much effect though.

Eshaan has always had problems sleeping in the night. He is always warm in the night and every time we try to cover him with a blanket he kicks it off. But once in a while he forgets or is too tired to kick of the blanket and then he starts to sweat. His sweat never has any odor. To help him with his breathing, we turn on a humidifier in his room. Even today he wakes up at least two times every night. Also, he sleeps for 1 1/2 hours in the afternoon. I brush his teeth every day and his tongue usually is clean but once in a while he a white coating (no too thick) on his tongue. He has normal bowel movement. Sometimes he goes twice a day.

Eshaan always puts his "balnky" in is mouth and pulls of shreds and swallows it. It think it maybe helps him with his teething. Last evening we bought a new toothbrush for him and he was fussy about sleeping with it. He constantly would bite on the un-bristled side of the tootbrush. He did that for 20mins and as if satisfied, put it on the side. He is very active and playful but is not interested in sitting down and doing something quietly. He is always on the run and wants to play games that involve physical activity. He loves to hear music and loves dancing even more. He loves animals but is scared to go close to them. He loves to eat all the kinds of food. Banana, Watermelon and grapes are his favorite food. He loves fresh fruit juices. Oddly enough he love to eat raw onions (Julian cut with fresh lime and salt sprinkled over it) He tries to talk a lot but is not there yet. His sentences are all jumbled. He loves to be cuddled, is very sensitive and loses his temper quickly.

I hope that I have provided you with enough information to get started. We are desperate parents looking for answers.

Regards,
Kinny

[ 16. January 2003, 05:38: Message edited by: kinny ]