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My boy Malcolm fell very ill with a resp infection 1 week ago. He has been on Baytril and Doxycycline since that time. He's only 1.5 yrs.
He refused to eat or drink for the first 2 days, no matter how hard I tried. He made a breakthrough on day 3 and actively suckled quite a bit of soy baby formula from a syringe. With the help of a bronchodilator he has gotten his appetite back, but it seems like he doesn't know how to chew solids anymore. He has progressed from soy baby formula to smooth baby foods, but will only eat them if he can lick them off the floor, out of the side of his mouth that I insert the syringe for medication/formula feeding (because I'm right-handed). I'm worried this is my fault and is a learned behavior. I've tried switching hands and feeding from other side, but I can't push the syringe with my left and squirt meds everywhere.
I know it has only been 1 week, but I'm worried he will never go back to eating pellets/blocks. I don't think he's getting enough calories and nutrients on formula and baby food. I tried Ensure Plus to pump some extra calories in, but he hates it and won't take any. The fact that he will eat the baby food is the most important thing though.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it possible that he suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen, and just can't eat normally anymore? (That would be hard to believe, because he otherwise seems normal neurologically). Help!! ???
He refused to eat or drink for the first 2 days, no matter how hard I tried. He made a breakthrough on day 3 and actively suckled quite a bit of soy baby formula from a syringe. With the help of a bronchodilator he has gotten his appetite back, but it seems like he doesn't know how to chew solids anymore. He has progressed from soy baby formula to smooth baby foods, but will only eat them if he can lick them off the floor, out of the side of his mouth that I insert the syringe for medication/formula feeding (because I'm right-handed). I'm worried this is my fault and is a learned behavior. I've tried switching hands and feeding from other side, but I can't push the syringe with my left and squirt meds everywhere.
I know it has only been 1 week, but I'm worried he will never go back to eating pellets/blocks. I don't think he's getting enough calories and nutrients on formula and baby food. I tried Ensure Plus to pump some extra calories in, but he hates it and won't take any. The fact that he will eat the baby food is the most important thing though.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it possible that he suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen, and just can't eat normally anymore? (That would be hard to believe, because he otherwise seems normal neurologically). Help!! ???