"Pyloric stenosis": Governor's infant son recovering from surgery

Ehrlich's infant son recovering from surgery
The infant son of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Kendel S. Ehrlich is
expected to be released from a Baltimore hospital today after
undergoing emergency surgery for a fairly common stomach condition on
Sunday.
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040...0849-4239r.htm

First things first...

PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%. See
PROOF below.

It's EASY to offer your baby the "extra" up to 30%. See the very end of
this post...


BREASTFEEDING, ERYTRHOMYCIN AND PYLORIC STENOSIS...
2002: "The significant increase in pyloric stenosis in children with very
early exposure to erythromycin is consistent with reports of other
investigators. The risks and benefits of erythromycin should be weighed
carefully prior to initiating such therapy in young infants."
--Cooper et al. (1) Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Jul;156(7):647-50. PubMed
abstract

2003: "[R]ecognition of an association between erythromycin and pyloric
stenosis prompted a change to a watchful waiting recommendation under which
only infants who develop symptomatic C trachomatis infection are treated
with oral erythromycin."
--Rosenman et al. (2) Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003 Jun;157(6):565-71.
PubMed abstract


2003: "The use of macrolides [like erythromycin] during breast-feeding
increases the risk of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis."
--Sorensen et al. (3) Scand J Infect Dis. 2003;35(2):104-6. PubMed abstract

MACROLIDES...

Azithromycin
Clarithromycin
Clindamycin
Erythromycin
Lincomycin
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er153/153d.jsp



I LOOKED INTO THIS BECAUSE MIKE WROTE:

Ehrlich's infant son recovering from surgery
The infant son of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Kendel S. Ehrlich is
expected to be released from a Baltimore hospital today after
undergoing emergency surgery for a fairly common stomach condition on
Sunday.
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040...0849-4239r.htm

Mike,

Thanks for the URL...

There was no mention of breastfeeding, erythromycin and pyloric stenosis in
the Washington Times article...

There was this though: "...can be caused by an allergic reaction, according
KidsHealth.org."
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040...0849-4239r.htm

Turning to KidsHealth.org - no mention of breastfeeding, erythromicin and
pyloric stenosis there either...

Indeed, breastfeeding was blindly promoted, as in,

"If you are breast-feeding, you may be concerned about being able to
continue feeding while your baby is hospitalized. The hospital should be
able to provide you with a breast pump and assist you in its use so that you
can continue to express milk until your baby can once again feed regularly."
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/med...enosis_p4.html

Seems like erythromycin should be mentioned just in case breastfeeding
mothers - or MDs - are not yet aware of the increased risk - assuming it is
real.

Ah, here's the likely problem: an old article: The KidsHealth.org article
says:

Reviewed by: Aviva Katz, MD
Date reviewed: September 2001
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/med...enosis_p5.html

I'll cc the KidsHealth folks via:

Also interesting...

"The condition...affects one in 1,000 babies..."
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040...0849-4239r.htm

"Pyloric stenosis/PS occurs in approximately 3 per 100 live births in the
United States."
--Michael Irish, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery,
The University of Iowa; Consulting Pediatric Surgeon, Department of
Pediatric Surgery, Raymond Blank Children's Hospital
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2965.htm

"...affects about three out of 1,000 babies in the United States."
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/med..._stenosis.html

Thanks for posting the pyloric stenosis article Mike...

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Copied also to:

1. Cooper WO, Griffin MR, Arbogast P, Hickson GB, Gautam S, Ray WA.
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine, Suite 5028 MCE, Nashville, TN 37232-8555,
USA.

2. Rosenman MB, Mahon BE, Downs SM, Kleiman MB. Section of Children's Health
Services Research, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of
Medicine, 1050 Wishard Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.


3. Sorensen HT, Skriver MV, Pedersen L, Larsen H, Ebbesen F, Schonheyder HC.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Aalborg
Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

PS To Rosenman et al., Cooper et al. and Sorenson et al....and
KidsHealth...

On another matter...

Please help stop OBs from closing birth canals up to 30%.

THE GREAT BIRTH ROBBERY...

OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30% (see PROOF below) and
gruesomely pulling and pushing on babies' spines...

With birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%, OBs are pushing with
oxytocin, Cytotec and PGE2 and pulling with hands, vacuums and forceps...

Sometimes OBs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal
cords...

Some babies die. Some are paralyzed. Most "only" have their necks
gruesomely wrenched.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed up to 30%.

OBs may be causing STROKES in babies...

"Stroke in infants and children is an important cause of morbidity and
mortality..."
--Karin B. Nelson, MD, NINDS [Lynch et al. Pediatrics 2002
Jan;109(1):116-23]

LADIES: It's EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up
to 30%. See the very end of this post...


PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to
30%...

According to the Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are we letting OBs and CNMwives force babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?

OBs and CNMwives are SLICING vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see the
"Criminal medical CAM" URL above.)

MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

GASTALDO'S PASSION...

STOPPING THE GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY...

Stopping The Great BIRTH Robbery just discussed will yield this culture
enormous benefit - as will stopping The Great Squat Robbery that some MDs
blame for their Great Birth Robbery...

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

WHY are the chiropractic trade unions silent about BOTH robberies?

With chiropractic still in a range-of-motion phase, why are the chiro trade
unions silent about our culture-wide loss of a
fundamental human range of motion?

Why did "science" recently bury (way at the bottom of Zhang et al. [2004])
the fact
that - after a life-time of squatting - Chinese men were LESS likely to
suffer knee osteoarthritis?

All children - OUR children - naturally squat - until we rob them!

This incredible finding - LESS osteoarthritis after a lifetime of
squatting - should have been shouted in the headlines!

Instead it was buried in text...

See The Great Birth Robbery (also: Harvard magnet osteoarthritis treatment
study)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2511

Back to my priority...

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see the
"Criminal medical CAM" URL above.)

MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo