Sign and symptoms of pyloric stenosis?

Answer 1

Pyloric Stenosis is the narrowing of the canal between the stomach and small intestine. In young babies symptoms can start very soon after birth but generally don't start till between 2 and 8 weeks after birth. The most obvious symptom is increasing vomiting after feeds and forceful projectile vomiting - not just 'sicking up' or regurgitating milk but an increasing pattern of the whole feed being returned in a powerful way. Poor weight gain or weight loss, irregular or loss of bowel movements, stomach cramps, dehydration, irritability, lethargy and wave movements across the stomach are also signs. Apart from medical tests an olive shaped and sized swelling can quite often be felt in the stomach region (near the sternum or breastbone). There are websites that advise how the infant should be positioned to find this "pyloric olive".