Today was a pretty uneventful day for Lily. She spent lots of time snoozing on Grandma's lap and looking around her room.
The pediatric urologist stopped by for a visit today to discuss Lily's post-hospital treatment. The doctor is taking a wait-and-see approach to Lily's case. She will be sent home from the hospital with a prescription for a low dose of amoxicillin, which she will take every day for the foreseeable future. The amoxicillin will hopefully keep her from getting any more urinary tract and kidney infections. If she can keep the infections at bay, she will be scheduled for another VCUG procedure when she is 18 months old, to see if her reflux has improved. The overall goal is to wait it out until she (hopefully) outgrows the condition. If she continues to get infections even while on the antibiotics, then we may have to discuss surgery, but we are not to that point yet.
In the next few weeks, she will also undergo a procedure called a DMSA Renal Scan. It involves injecting a radioisotope into her bloodstream, then using a gamma camera to photograph her kidneys. (It all sounds very high tech, no?) The photos will show any scarring in her kidneys that occurred as a result of this most recent kidney infection and provide a baseline for measuring any future scarring that may occur. It is an outpatient procedure that should be simple to complete.
Only two more days until she is released!!
The pediatric urologist stopped by for a visit today to discuss Lily's post-hospital treatment. The doctor is taking a wait-and-see approach to Lily's case. She will be sent home from the hospital with a prescription for a low dose of amoxicillin, which she will take every day for the foreseeable future. The amoxicillin will hopefully keep her from getting any more urinary tract and kidney infections. If she can keep the infections at bay, she will be scheduled for another VCUG procedure when she is 18 months old, to see if her reflux has improved. The overall goal is to wait it out until she (hopefully) outgrows the condition. If she continues to get infections even while on the antibiotics, then we may have to discuss surgery, but we are not to that point yet.
In the next few weeks, she will also undergo a procedure called a DMSA Renal Scan. It involves injecting a radioisotope into her bloodstream, then using a gamma camera to photograph her kidneys. (It all sounds very high tech, no?) The photos will show any scarring in her kidneys that occurred as a result of this most recent kidney infection and provide a baseline for measuring any future scarring that may occur. It is an outpatient procedure that should be simple to complete.
Only two more days until she is released!!
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