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My 8 week old has been projectile vomiting for a few weeks, we took him doctors to be told it was possibly gastroenteritis. it's still going so we took him hospital who checked for pyloric stenosis as all his symptoms fit. but it's also not that. they are
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Follow up: Continue to address the problem until you have an answer. Have his growth and particularly his weight followed to see if he is thriving. If his weight is increasing you have more time to,sort this out. If he is loosing weight then it becomes more urgent. All the best.
Answered 1/5/2015
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