9 Yrs. Old Vomiting Daily for 8 weeks, HELP!!

[TLazenby]

Vomiting and coughing (seal-barking type cough) began approximately 8 weeks ago.  Child was taken to a doctor and diagnosed with an ear infection.  His temperature was staying between 99.8 and 100.4 degrees. He was placed on Bactrin to get rid of the ear infection.  A week later he has continued to vomit numerous times daily.  We took him back to the same doctor and was told he was congested.  Two days later he continues to vomit, cough and complain of headaches and was taken back to the same practice (different dr.).  This time the doctor did chest x-rays and found 2 spots of what was believed to be pneumonia.  The radiologist report said one spot was pneumonia and the other was not able to be defined.  My son was placed on Ceflex for the pneumonia.  He continued to cough and vomit so we took him back to our Primary Care Physician in our old hometown .  He was treated for Pertussis with  Zithromax.  As he continued to vomit, cough, have belly pain, and complain of headaches Dr. McNabb felt it would be best that he go to a local Children’s Hospital for further treatment.  In the Emergency Room at the Children’s Hospital  they performed a head scan, blood work, urine test and x-rays which all came back normal.  He was referred to their pediatric GI specialist.  The GI Dr. placed him on Prevacid twice daily and Raglan.  He began to break out in a rash after taking the Raglan one night, thus we discontinued it.  My son is still vomiting daily (between 5 and 63 times per day).  He was sent for a Ph Probe, which he could not tolerate due to his throat being so irritated from all the vomiting.  He was also put on a stool softened because one of the x-rays showed that his stools appeared somewhat backed up.  He completed the stomach emptying study on Friday (12/14/07) with all normal results.  GI Dr. wants to hold off on doing an endoscopy due to our son's asthma accompanied by cough.  He has been cautious about putting our son to sleep (which I am grateful for) due to breathing problems.  Our son has an appointment with a pediatric pulmonologist on Jan. 16, 2008 as that is the quickest they could see him at the Children's hospital.  He continues to vomit daily and has pain in his throat to the extent he says it hurts to talk and swallow, much less eat.  During the past three weeks he has lost 8 pounds.  His clothes are beginning to be too big for him due to the weight loss.  

CURRENT MEDICATIONS:  
Prevacid 30mg twice daily
MiraLax OTC once daily
Singular 5mg once daily

[TLazenby]

I'll have to ask the Dr. about it.  He goes back on Monday.  Thanks for the help!

[myproblem]

what about gastroenteritis?

[elke481]

I think one of the medication could be a problem.
Baybe a virus.