[tri-med] Re: pneumonia

Geeez Irene, I would hardly say you have been lucky!!

Thanks though, I am hoping we just did not clear it up the first time 
too.

Mimi (wife to Doug, Mommy to Reilly 8, Keegan 6 and Tierney T18 8 
months)
Chicago
On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Irene Smith wrote:

>
>   Mimi,
>
>   Sorry, I don't have much experience in this to give much advice.  
> We've
> been lucky with Caroline so far!!
>
>   My educated guess would also be that the antiobiotics haven't had a 
> chance
> to completely clear out the infection.  I do know that my nephew had
> pneumonia when he was about 5 and it took a LONG time to clear it up.  
> He
> was on breathing treatments for a long time as well as medication, but 
> his
> case of pneumonia was REALLY severe.
>
>   Hope things start getting better soon!!!!
>
>   Irene
>   (Christina - 27 months and Caroline - 7 months with partial trisomy 
> 17p)
>   http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/c/carolinerochelle
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Mimi Noonan" <miminoonan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:42 AM
>   Subject: [tri-med] pneumonia
>
>
>> Tierney had pneumonia two weeks ago and did beautifully on 
>> antibiotics.
>> She finished on Monday am and by Wed was coughing again. At recheck
>> today, the pneumonia was back. She is not as sick as she was the first
>> time--is still eating pretty well.
>>
>> Anyone else had problems with this?? Tierney is orally fed, but has
>> never been checked for aspirating, I doubt it because she has never 
>> had
>> a problem like this before...but you never know.
>>
>> (What I would like to hear is "oh yeah, we had a couple of problems
>> like that, but then my baby got better and did great." Thank you very
>> much.) I don't like to think about how many T18 babies die of
>> pneumonia.
>>
>> My boys go to public school, but have not been sick at all, no colds
>> even.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Mimi (wife to Doug, Mommy to Reilly 8, Keegan 6 and Tierney T18 8
>> months)
>> Chicago
>>
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