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Covid Recovery: How can I manage GI issues?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Sep 20 11:09am | Replies (260)Comment receiving replies
My 17yo daughter got Covid in July 2022, which started with vomiting. 5 months later she has severe stomach and abdominal pain daily, almost constant nausea, random vomiting (sometimes lasting for hours), heartburn, acid reflux, lightheaded and dizziness at times. We're seeing a GI specialist who has her on Prilosec and Zofran (which seems to sometimes help stop or avoid the vomiting), but no idea what else to do. Ultrasounds, bloodwork, Stool Sample, CT scan all normal. We have an endoscopy and colonoscopy scheduled in a couple of weeks, as well as an allergy appointment.
Has anything helped your child? Mine is missing so much school and life.
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Nothing has helped the sore throat and stomach pain. We’ve treated her SIBO with antibiotics and each time her dizziness has dramatically improved. But each time after a month or so it has returned. She was just diagnosed with POTs as well. It seems that many long covid kids have autonomic dysfunction. There are no easy answers. But if I were in your shoes I’d push the doc to test for gastroparesis, SIBO, and maybe POTs (through cardio). My niece had issues with daily, frequent vomiting (for over a year) and treating SIBO completely turned that around for her. Bizarrely, many mainstream GI docs don’t treat SIBO. We (and my niece) had to find a functional medicine doc to test for and treat it.
Best wishes to you and your daughter.