Digestive System

• Laryngomalacia

  Laryngomalacia is a common cause of noisy breathing in infants.

• Liver Transplant

  If your child needs a liver transplant, you’re probably feeling lots of emotions. Fortunately, most kids who have liver transplants go on to live normal, healthy lives.

• Nasogastric Tube (NG Tube)

  An NG tube goes through the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach to deliver formula or medicine.

• Necrotizing Enterocolitis

  Necrotizing enterocolitis is an intestinal disease that usually affects preemies. Medicines and therapy can help babies with NEC.

• Nutrition Therapy and Crohn’s Disease

  Nutrition therapy is an alternative to medicines that doctors use to ease the symptoms of Crohn’s disease. It can help improve nutrition and growth, ease inflammation, and heal the gastrointestinal tract.

• Ostomies

  For some digestive system problems, surgeons do a procedure called an ostomy that lets waste leave the body through a small opening in the skin of the belly.

• Pancreatitis

  Pancreatitis is sometimes mistaken for a stomach virus because symptoms can include fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Symptoms usually get better on their own, but sometimes treatment is needed.

• Peptic Ulcers

  Bacteria cause most peptic ulcers. Usually, they can be cured.

• Protein-Losing Enteropathy

  Protein-losing enteropathy is when too much protein leaks into the intestines, often because of a chronic health condition. The condition usually can be treated.

• Pyloric Stenosis

  Pyloric stenosis can make a baby vomit forcefully and often. It can lead to serious problems like dehydration, and needs medical treatment right away.