Micah's Admission to TC Thompsons with Slick Gut Syndrome

I just wanted to give everyone an update on little Micah's status. Micah has been admitted to TC Thompson for a rare disease process called "slick gut syndrome" also known as Intractable diarrhea in infancy. His illness was set off by the Milk protein allergy that he has and was exacerbated by a gastroenteritis he acquired. This affected his small intestine, which eroded the microvilli of the small intestine which are essential for absorption of intestinal secretions and nutrients and also caused his small bowel to become inflamed. This causes a dumping effect of the intestinal secretions which cause dehydration and mal-absorption of nutrients. Without intervention, babies with this disease process would die from dehydration and malnutrition. Micah currently has a central line placed for TPN and electrolyte replacements. He also received a unit of PRBCs for the anemia that has occurred due to this process. He has also been running fevers so he is on some antibiotics, good thing is that so far his cultures have come back negative. He unfortunately is still dumping up to 200mL per Kilo from his diarrhea. We were told to expect to be here for the next 4 weeks and if all goes well it will take up to 4 to 6 months for his small intestine to completely heal. We were also told to expect at some point for Micah to become bacterimic at some point due to the disruption of his small intestine that will allow bacteria to flourish. Kind of scary to know that sepsis is coming to town. Anyway, he still is maintaining at the same level and has not yet began to improve, although he looks better than the first day. I just want to say that I thank you all for your support and for being supportive of Patricia too. I just ask that you continue to pray for little Micah.