So I recently (aka Monday) started my rotation in the PICU -Pediatric Intensive Care Unit- and let me tell you---its intense! More on that later....
We had about a 10 minute break the other day and started looking up kids on the floor that might come up to to the unit. At one point the peds resident recognized a kiddo there and started telling me their story:
Its a 10 month old kiddo who has had chronic diarrhea since birth. They've done all kinds of tests to figure out the cause. They found out the kid is unable to digest both proteins AND sugars. This is actually quite rare. Apparently kiddos usually just have one problem or the other, but not both at the same time---this is a good thing because if you cannot digest proteins, then we give the kid sugars to eat, and if you cannot digest sugars, we give them proteins. For this kid they are playing a fine line in feeding him.
The lesson with this kid??
Don't marry your cousin.
We had about a 10 minute break the other day and started looking up kids on the floor that might come up to to the unit. At one point the peds resident recognized a kiddo there and started telling me their story:
Its a 10 month old kiddo who has had chronic diarrhea since birth. They've done all kinds of tests to figure out the cause. They found out the kid is unable to digest both proteins AND sugars. This is actually quite rare. Apparently kiddos usually just have one problem or the other, but not both at the same time---this is a good thing because if you cannot digest proteins, then we give the kid sugars to eat, and if you cannot digest sugars, we give them proteins. For this kid they are playing a fine line in feeding him.
The lesson with this kid??
Don't marry your cousin.
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