Patterns & Habits: Infant, Steroids

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Help! Steroids Affecting Baby's Sleeping/eating

My 16 month old baby can catch the FLU and she can catch a COLD, but she just can't CATCH A BREAK!! She's so tiny and we're working with doctors to monitor her weight gain and she just keeps getting sick! ARGH! so frustrating I just want to cry! Anyways, she came down with a cold and developed croup, we took her to the ER Sun morning because she had stridor (straining to breathe in) and they gave her an oral steroid. It took almost 3 hours to get her to sleep last night, she was so WIDE AWAKE! And she would throw herself against the...

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Hemangioma Birth Mark on Top of Baby's Head?? What Would You Do?

Our 3 month old has a "strawberry" hemangioma birth mark on the top of his head -- it sticks up a little bit and is supposed to keep getting bigger and then doctors say that it will probably go away between the ages of 2 and 7 years old. My husband is wanting to do something about it now, though. Options are removing it surgically, injecting with steroids, or do nothing. I would rather do nothing b/c I am afraid of what the steroids would do to him and I feel like surgery is way to invasive. Has anyone else's baby had one of these? What did...

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Rash from Head to Toe

My 4 year old son has a rash literally from head to toe..Doctor can not see...

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