Kidney Reflux in Infants

I'm not sure if this will post or not so here goes!

Lilly's mom - did the Dr's at the hospital what grade the reflux is? grades 3,4 or 5 would usually be operable. My son had grade 4 on one side and grade 5 on the other and he had corrective surgery. It was an easy surgery and only in from 8am until lunchtime. Very easy......we are in Ireland and were lucky enough to have the surgeon who invented the procedure using the "puri" catheter so it no longer has the risks involved and no cuts or scars, it is all done with little tubes and x-rays.

He had to be 12 months to have the surgery and the best anti-biotics that worked for him was Trimethoprim. I also had Reflux of kidneys when i was younger but mine was less severe.....i was still on antibiotics until the age of 10 (but i wouldn't be able to tell you what it was) My problem gradually lessened and i got less and less infections and eventually "Out grew" them.

Hannah

My daughter was found to have fluid in both kidneys in utero. I wasnt sent for a follow up scan once she was born so i kept hassling the hospitals, once she had an ultrasound at 2 months they said she had a tiny amount of fluid and it would resolve itself. Not even one month later she was in hospital diagnosed with a UTI, she stayed in hospital for 3 days and was sent home with cotrimozale, she has been on that antibiotic for 2 months now and we have had no further problems. she had an MCU performed last week which showed she had kidney reflux to both kidneys, since its only a mild case they said she could possible be on antibiotics for up to 3 years. That sucks!! I wouldnt want her to have surgery, but im sure her body could start to become resistant and the UTI's could start coming back?? Is there nothing else to help them, besides the long term abtibiotics or the last resort surgery??

My daughter was first diagnosed with urinary reflux at 7 weeks of age. She was brought in with a 104.4 temp. After about 4 days she was finally able to come. The current course of action was to take a daily dose of Amoxiclilian to hopefully ward off any future infections. To our dismay this did not work. We are currently in the hospital again aproximately 2 months later. She is only 4 months old today.

The one thing that I read in these articles is that the doctors could have done a follow up test to confirm if the amoxicillian was doing its job. The other possible prevention could have been for us to listen our pharmcist over the docs about when to discard the current mixed formula.

This time round she was diagnosed with having two forms of ecoli in her urine. With this they had to contact the CDC to help figure out the best course of medication for her.

Any further advice on this would be appreciated.