We read the JAMA article DrGreene recommended, recommended it to our doctor, who read it and spoke with a urologist at Children’s. The decision: parental decision. Great.
We think we are going to take him off. He seems to feel bad when he is taking it and we are going to keep a very close eye on his temp.
After a few weeks of careful consideration, and figuring out what our remaining options were, we have registered Andrew for a program at the Homemeadow Song Farm. It is a two day program will he will get to do some pretty cool stuff, on a regular basis. We are really excited about it, and Andrew is too.
We went to the doctor yesterday to talk about Elliot. She said go see a urologist (which we will on Sept 5), but in the meantime start taking Bactrim, a prophylactic antibiotic, to keep him from getting another UTI, which could spread to his kidneys. So we started him on a very low dose of Bactrim.
No sooner than I sat down to write this post did I get an email, from DrGreene.com, whose website I linked to in my last post about Elliot. I had never communicated with him before, and I must have popped up on his radar because I linked to his site, which sent him some traffic.
Here is what he, or someone on his website’s behalf, has to say:
if preventive antibiotics come up as a possibility, you might want to talk with your pediatrician about a major new study in JAMA in July where there was no difference between the kids who go antibiotics and those who did not in the number of subsequent UTIs — but those who got the antibiotics were much more likely to get resistant infections. Everyone here is re-weighing the benefits vs. risks.
Great.
Since Elliot had a urinary tract infection a few weeks back, it was recommended that we have some tests done to make sure that his kidneys and his bladder are working properly, so today we headed to the hospital to get some tests done. Turns out that he has a little vesicoureteral reflux, or kidney reflux. Elliot has the mildest form, grade one, and will hopefully grow out of it. Tomorrow we see our pediatrician, to see what she recommends.
We picked up a bike for Andrew at the Northside Yard Sale on Saturday, got some gear for it on Sunday (training wheels, and a helmet for Andrew), and by Sunday night he was off. He was a little tired, which made things interesting, but he did well, and he had fun.
Everyone else is in bed, and I just got finished carving up my first whole chicken, so I thought I would take a minute to wind down/not fall behind on the blog.
We are just wrapping up a fun weekend here in the Liesland home. We started off the weekend with the La Leche League Pot-Luck on Friday night. It was hot, and there was a lot of dessert, so it was pretty fun.
We were back out again on Saturday to enjoy the Northside Yard Sale. We didn’t make it out until 11 and it was heating up. Holly came with us and did her best at reverse-bargaining. We came out with some fun stuff, including a new bike for Andrew.
Saturday afternoon we hit the Y, and then headed to Walt’s Barbeque on Cincinnati’s West Side. I would definitely recommend it. Cool place.
Today, Sunday, started off slowly. Susan slept until 10, and then Elliot slept until 12:30. Mari went down for her nap at one, Elliot went back down at 3, and then finally everyone was awake by 3:45, just in time for us to head to Home Depot to snag some new appliances. We got a new washer, dryer, dishwasher, and stove. Don’t worry, we have 10 days to figure out where we are going to store the old stove. I just can’t bear to have it taken away by people who will dis-respect it.
Later. . .