The nurse from the GI doctor called today with Emma's results from the pill camera she swallowed a couple of weeks ago. The pill cam is pretty cool because it literally captures images from the point where the patient swallows it through the next eight hours of the digestive system. The nurse had told us it would take a couple of weeks for the results since the doctor has to watch the entire eight hours. I'm not sure why he can't sit around with his kids and have family time while watching my child's guts...that's probably something my brother and I would do. :)
Anyway, the nurse said that Emma does not have Crohn's, which is obviously wonderful. Praise the Lord for that! She does, however, have rapid transit through the small intestine, which is consistent with functional abdominal pain. Her food passes through the small intestine in 59 minutes. I forgot to ask how long it should take, so I Googled it and found out the food should take about three hours to pass through the small intestine.
I'm not sure yet what these test results mean, but we will be seeing the doctor on Thursday to discuss these results as well as her food allergy ones.
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