January 15 Brady will have his second scope.
Dr. Hart is concerned with Brady's poor growth. Currently Brady weighs 37 pds which is in the 10th percentile. He continually moves down in percentiles. He defenitely has malabsorption issues. He is concerned as I am about his pancreas. He is going to do a pancreatic enzyme stimulation by administering Secretin during the scope. I am anxious to see if Brady does in fact have pancreatic insufficiency. We'll accomplish this by aspirating the intestinal contents and sending them to an outside lab to assess the function and adequacy of his pancreatic enzymes. Brady often has moderate amounts of fat in his stool indicating he's not making enough lipase enzymes. We'll see.
Brady started the GFCF diet March 21, 2006....nearly four years ago. Starting this August we started allowing him to have gluten and casein with enzymes. I am afraid that he's not able to tolerate them even with enzymes. Dr. Hart agreed much to my dismay.
I'm anxious for this procedure.
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