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    junkyardjean reacted to 911RN in Cyanosis now....   
    Ditto what Hopeny said. Pediatric cardiologist is warranted and ASAP. Cyanosis in a child is not normal, especially transient cyanosis. Things can be wrong that listening to a heart with a stethoscope will not pick up. Listening to heart sounds is the most basic, non invasive modality- tells you only if heart beat is regular/irregular and if heart sounds are normal. If no murmur then one "assumes" valves are OK. THAT's it!! It is not a diagnostic tool to say that heart is fine with no worries.
     
    She needs full scale cardiology work up with EKG, Echo and maybe even stress test?? Keep us posted!
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    junkyardjean reacted to Hopeny in Cyanosis now....   
    At this stage past the basic boo boo I don't count on the ped for anything. Pretty much i am using specialists. Sorry I can't give you any insight into what it cd be but personally I wd consider starting with a pediatric cardiologist. Good luck
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    junkyardjean reacted to PowPow in Help with some info please   
    Is this a stool or saliva test?
     
     
     
    I believe e.avium is also a typically vancomycin resistant bug.
    Did they do a sensitivity on the growth to determine susceptibility to antibiotics?
    I do not think this can be ignored AT ALL,.
    Was this done by some "hokey" lab? If so, ask him to repeat it, at a lab he is comfortable with. (I am using his term "hokey" not inferring anything about your choice of lab!)
    Ask him if he would ignore such a positive finding on the stool culture of his 5 year old!
     
    read about VRE species here: . http://www.nphl.org/VancomycinResistantEnterococcus-Iwen.pdf.pdf
    you will see the e.avium is quite rare, really. in humans, anyway. (I bet lots of birds have it )
     
    my child had a VRE (e.faecium) UTI. Treatment with Linezolid was rough. Major dietary and medicine changes for 2 weeks pre med, 2 week post and during administration.
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    junkyardjean reacted to tpotter in Help with some info please   
    Just found this reference when googling...interesting that they say that enterrococcous avium was previously referred to as Group Q Strep!
     
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21667269
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    junkyardjean got a reaction from EmilyK in Article on IVIG use in Canada   
    Found this on my internet travels - interesting breakdown on IVIG use in Canada. PANDAS is discussed and is listed as a condition where IVIG would be indicated - not sure why things are still so hard here if this was discussed years ago? Docs listed on expert panel - not sure if anyone has any experience with them???
     
    http://www.dsmanitoba.ca/professionals/transfusion/IVIG_neurology.pdf
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