This was once a thread called “Excessive Diapers.” But it has so moved on from that.
Here is the recap:
My son, the Tinkleberry, peed a lot. 25+ diapers a day at 6 weeks old. This had been going on for weeks. He also ate about twice as much as he should and was hysterical whenever he wanted a bottle. We went to the hospital. We were told many things, including that he might have a form of diabetes, he had a heart defect, brain damage, bladder reflux, among others. After a week in the hospital, the conclusion was that he had an e.coli infection in his kidneys and bladder. He was given antibiotics by IV and we went home with oral antibiotics for 10 days.
Tinkleberry began to pee a bit more than most kids, but was back to a more normal amount of diapers. He also stopped being compulsively thirsty and just ate like a regular baby.
However, three questions remained:
-Did our son have an endocrine or metabolic disease?
Does our son indeed have a faulty valve in his ureters, thus refluxing urine back to his kidneys?
Does our son have brain damage to his hypothalamus or basal ganglia?
Today we got the results for his endocrine and metabolic tests. He is fine. He has plently of various hormones. Also, his penis is a “good length.” We have no idea how that was ever an issue, but they measured it today. Ok, well, good to know, I guess. :rolleyes:
No endocrine issues, no metabolic diseases.
His VCUG test for kidney reflux is in a few weeks. His MRI is on the 17th. We will know more about those things at that point. We will update this thread then, I guess.
So there is the Tinkleberry update. Thanks to everyone for their prayers and good wishes and support. We really really appreciated it. Meant a lot to find my inbox full of nice replies every day during our hospital stay.
Yay Tinkleberry! May you find something very minor and easily fixed that caused the problems in the first place so you can just relax and enjoy yourselves.
So glad to know that Tinkleberry’s better.
Hope the further tests bear out nothing of consequence.
Having a three-month-old daughter at home; and given the history of our four-year-old Grizzcub and his twin sister, I was quite nervous when reading the original post.
Our household is truly truly glad to know that your baby’s doing well.
Here’s hoping that the rest of the tests come back with equally mundane and entirely ordinary results.
Never really realized before that boring babies (healthwise, I mean) are good to have. “Interesting” babies (healthwise, again) can really put fear into you (and into the rest of us as well!).
for the Tinkleberry updates. I’m glad to hear he’s doing better, even if they don’t know what on earth it was. I think most of us get a mystery illness (Wolfie’s was a fully body rash allegedly from green beans (which he can eat fine now) and a ‘flare up’ which was actually just a reaction to being rolled in curry powder.
But it sounds like whatever it was, your timely attention to it and insistence he be looked at was the exact right thing to do.
See, this is what drives me nuts about doctors. They tell you it might be anything from multiple brain tumors to the common cold. You have no way of knowing how much to worry. “We have to do more tests.” :mad: Gahhh!
But, like everyone else here, I am thankful you have at least part of the answer and that your little guy is doing better. Best wishes to you and your family, inkleberry.