Talk:Pyloric stenosis

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Information from Pyloric stenosis appeared on Portal:Medicine in the Did you know section on July 18, 2006.

[edit] picture

The scar shown in the picture looks a good deal larger and scarier than is typical, I think. Nonetheless, I'm glad to have a pic there. I don't want parents who see that to be frightened, however. Anyone with a more subdued photo? Pkoetters 05:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Interesting photo. I was operated on for Pyloric Stenosis around 11-12 weeks after birth. My scar is horizontal, not vertical as illustrated in the photo. When I look at baby photos, in all honesty mine didn't look too different. The operation was around the mid 1980s in New Zealand, so the procedures are probably different now. If I had a choice, I would have chosen a vertical scar, as the horizontal one has left a kind of hollow area, I guess you could describe it. Rather be alive with a scar then not at all. :)

I'm the first born, male, and of New Zealand European origin (Caucasian). There is no family history of this condition, and my younger brother didn't develop it either.

More then happy to answer questions: mikeinwaikato@hotmail.com

Cheers, Mike.

[edit] Hereditary

It is said that this symptom usually effects first born males in the family. I was a rare case of being a second born male with this symptom. My older brother doesn't have it. My father was a first born male (with an older sister) and had it. When they performed the surgery on him, they gave him whiskey as an infant to help him handle the pain of surgery, this was in the early 1940s. His father had an older brother (first born male) that had this and died at 6 months, which was in the first decade of the 1900s. The scar I have from the surgey is vertical and not really noticeable. My dad's scar is a bit more noticeable. The side of the family that it came from is of German decent. -- Suso 22:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oddity

Apparently I am a very rare case in terms of this disease. Not only am I a female, but there are apparently no other people in my family, in current history, that have had it. I have just recently started really looking into the disease to see what it is. Like one of the other commentor, my scar is also horizontal, unlike the picture in the article. I do have to agree that I probably would have preferred the vertical scar as there is a sort of hollow space from this particular scar.