My son's pain returned again this afternoon, as we knew it would. The added challenge this time was that our family was 50 minutes away from our home hospital. His pain increases very quickly, and in the past instances the only solution to his pain has been a morphine drip, which we clearly did not have access to.
When I saw his pain begin the way we'd seen it in the past, I gave him a generous dose of high sodium food. It is a simple and painless trick that had a chance of helping him, if not with the pain, with the recovery after the pain had ceased, and could potentially reduce his risk of being hospitalized again. He was able to eat some before the pain kicked unto high gear, but not as much as I would have liked. We prepared to book it home to the ER, leaving our oldest daughter in the care of her grandparents for the night. But by the time my husband carried our son to his car seat, his pain seemed to be improving, and within ten minutes of the drive it had disappeared entirely. It was such an amazing relief to be able to just bring him home rather than having to make another ER trip followed by yet another hospitalization.
It was also a little validating, as parents and medical caretakers, to feel like our suspicions of low sodium causing this pain might be at least a little correct.
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