My daughter can't hold down anything.. water included

This happened to me once..I was hospitalized, which was the best thing. I was better the next day. I was literally throwing up AIR and lost 20 lbs. in 2 weeks. I was so dehydrated, my eyes were dried out, potassium level was very dangerous..just stay hydrated no matter what..I went to the emergency room 3x and they finally admitted me and I was better the next day.

How old is your daughter? The Azathioprine is probably making her nautious. It would help to have a brief history from day one.

Thanks all for the quick responces and the insight on Humira.

My daughter is 18. She has been having symptons for about 4 years but was diagnosed with UC about 2 1/2 years ago. about 3 months ago she had her third flare up. Her doctor put her on Prednizone after her colonoscopy showed that her colon was more inflamed than the one she'd had the previous year. She was good for about a month then the symptons started again. She had diahrea and was vomiting so bad that I was afraid that she dehydrate so I took her to emergency room. They put her on an IV and gave her steriods through an IV and she left feeling better. The next day she saw her doctor, he said he would first try increasing the predisone then he added the other meds plus lialda. It worked for the several weeks then as she started to taper off it went down hill fast....lots of blood in her stool, pain and nausea.

She left the hospital still not feeling well. She was still fighting with eating and keeping food down. She hasn't gotten any better, just worst, so we are seeing the doctor tomorrow.

May go to the ER tonight... She's being stubborn. May have to drag her there.

Yes, an IV with fluids will at least make her feel better and be less dangerous...and they gave me meds just to calm my stomach through the IV.

Geez, I'm sorry to hear this. This sucks for your daughter and it sucks for you. I hope something will work for her soon.

Talk to the GI and get some medication to stop throwing up (sublingual Stemetil or similar) and Bentyl to diarrhea (due to flare up or anything otherwise so that something can remain in the system). At the same time, drag her to the hospital and get IV fluids. It isn't good to get dehydrated and mess up electrolyte balance.

Why is she taking Pentoprazole? Does doc think that she has GERD or for throwing up (as a result of reflux)? What other meds she is taking? What is the dose of her Azathioprine and if you know her liver enzyme levels.

Once she is up and running, send her here to get herself more educated.

Good Luck.

We are in the hospital. She is feeling a of better. She's on an IV and they given her steroids through an IV. They gave her something for nausea.
The Pantoprazole was to help her be able to deal with the prednisone. The doc thought it would help it not upset her stomach. The Azathioprine 50mg was taken once a day.

I hope when we kea very here they will have given hersomerhing that will allow her to keep food down.

i've been in her situation twice. i was taking a lot of zofran and prilosec which helped get the gastritis under control. i noticed in the hospital when they gave me my meds too close together, i was always throwing up something.

"So she is starting Humira today. We hate all the drugs. The side effects scare me. The doc says she will be on this drug for the rest of her life."


That is horseshat. I'll tell you why.

1. The drug is too dangerous, nobody will stay forever on it.
2. The drug has BIG chance of losing it's effectiveness over time.
3. There will be a multitude different TNF drugs coming up, maybe safer than humira, etc.
4. A totally different type of drug might be available.

Nothing is forever.

4mydaughter,
Glad to hear she is feeling better. I remember the first thing I thought I could eat and keep down and that was a bowl of orange sherbert. When I was diagnosed at 15 (28 now), GI doctors told me all kinds of negative things so I don't go to them at all now. I go to my regular nurse practitioner IF I ever have a flare-up, which is once every few years! It was about as bad as it could get when I was diagnosed, covering my entire colon...now I'm as healthy as a horse, run a business full-time. Go with natural remedies as much as you can and stay healthy in between flares, avoiding trigger foods and medicines that cause flares such as strong iron supplements, oral fever blister medicines, etc. I don't take anything for UC.

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I basically avoid yeast, fatty milk, and insane amounts of sugar such as in cake icing. I also don't overdo lettuce. I think the idea of some of the diets are to take out anything that worsens the flare, eating very bland foods, then slowly add normal things back as the body adjusts again. This worked for me.

What is C-Diff?

After reading everything, we want to start with the IBS diet and try the spinich/sunflower seed butter diet.

I'm praying that diet works. Found out yesterday that my insurance won't cover the Humira. So even though they gave it to her at the hospital, it won't be covered.

I'm going to have to talk to her doctor about what to do next if I can't the insurance company to pay for any of it.