Elevated Liver Enzymes

Posted By Jennifer on May 15, 1998 at 16:06:19:








My eight year old child was just diagnosed with CMV.
We went to the doctor for routine blood work because
he was taking ritalin and we changed him over to adderal.
His liver enzymes came back high. We took him off all
medication and repeated the tests in 2 weeks. The enzymes
were higher still. We repeated the test a month later
and they were still getting higher. We did an abdominal
ultrasound and his spleen was swollen, as well as his
liver. After repeated blood test the diagnosis so far has
been CMV. They are still running more tests.
Child is otherwise healthy. He had a gastroschesis at
birth with repair on the same day. Everything went
well and he was sent home after a month in the hospital.
He had a hernia repair at 9 months and a lymph node
removed at 2 yrs, due to cat scratch fever.
Does this diagnosis sound right and what should we
do to correct this.
We don't want to cause him liver damage that we cant
fix.
Thanks