Hi,
My son is 1 years old and has hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is post Glenn with a BT shunt and a pulmonary artery band between glenn shunt and BT shunt. He has previously been on ECMO and has had 4 heart surgeries as well as the Nissen with G-tube placement. Currently the problem is that when we feed him through his g-tube, his oxygen saturations drop between 50 and 70 (his normal oxygen saturations are 75-85). He has done this in the past when we first went to bolus or bulk feeds from continuous feeds. The only thing that has changed recently is that we have increased the amount of feeds he gets from 4 oz to 6 oz. Is this normal? What is a normal drop range while feeding? What could be causing his drops...is it the increase in feed amount? Any input you can give on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Tammy