Cayden’s appointment

I thought we were through with this stuff, but I guess not

Today we had Cayden’s appointment with her nephrologist.  The doctor pulled up the results from the culture that the urgent care place took and told us that it was a resistant bacteria, but not incredibly resistant.  She said it was resistant more towards penicillin-type medicines, but that it wasn’t resistant towards the antibiotic that she was on from birth up until a few months ago.  So that was good news.  She said that she couldn’t be 100% sure that she had a UTI but since she had a moderate amount of blood in her when they first took the culture, then they were going to say it was a real UTI.  The doctor said that the bacteria she had was something that is common in the gastrointestinal tract, so it was something that they have seen before.  She mentioned that if Cayden had stayed on the preventive antibiotics, that it probably would have prevented this infection.  So her recommendation was to put Cayden back on the daily antibiotics (as soon as she finishes this round of stronger antibiotic) until she is comfortable with potty-training.  When kids are potty-trained, there is less chance for bacteria because of no more diapers and also as the kids grow, the ureter stretches and grows more at an angle, making there less of a chance of reflux.  If she doesn’t seem interested in potty-training until around 3 years, the doctor said that we could try another trial of her going off the medicine, but we would have to wait and see how that goes.

I asked the doctor if they would repeat another VCUG since she had this infection and she really doesn’t like doing those to kids as they get older because she said it really makes kids take a step back when learning how to potty-train.  She said that if she has a breakthrough infection while on the preventive antibiotics, that they’ll think about doing another one.  But for now, she didn’t want to do another one.  We’ll go back for her next appointment (and I guess another ultrasound) when she is 2 years old.  Gosh, that’s only 6 months away…hopefully she’ll be my child to start potty-training early

Photo of the day: #128 “Good news”

Photo #128

Today Cayden had an ultrasound of her kidneys and an appointment with her kidney doctor.  She didn’t like the ultrasound at all and was hysterical the whole time during it.  She has seen enough doctors in her lifetime to know that they are no fun and starts crying as soon as we walk into the room.  We got through that and then had the appointment with her doctor after.  They said that the radiologist hadn’t written his final report yet, but from what the doctor could see on the ultrasound images that her kidneys looked like they had caught up to each other in size and both looked normal.  He told us that we could stop giving Cayden her nightly antibiotics (YAY!!!!!).  I’m so excited not to have to do that anymore.  We’ve been giving her antibiotics every night since she was a month old and 90% of those nights were a struggle to get her to take the medicine.  I’m so glad that’s over

She will go back when she is 2 for another ultrasound as long as everything stays okay between now and then.  Yahoo!