RE:geographic tongue/another crazy question

February 17, 2006

Sorry I haven't been writing much. I've been working as much as possible

these days... I guess that hasn't really much since Conner and Evan are both

fighting sinus infections! On top of that, I've been dealing with the fact

that our infectious disease doc believes that all of our kids are immune

deficient. He doesn't believe the other three are nearly as severe as

Conner (yet!). All four go to the immunologist next Wed, they will be

drawing blood on my husband and I too (they are looking for the genetic

defect that Conner has for his MBL deficiency.

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that Conner has a " geographic tongue "

too. I imagine it's just a coincidence, I don't think it's that uncommon.

Mom to Conner (11, Asperger's, mild CP, partial seizures, asthma, GERD,

Hashimoto's disease, hypogammaglobulinemia, complement deficiency, antibody

deficiency, NK cell defect, and resolved adrenal insufficiency),

Hayden (11, PDD-NOS, IBS and moderate hearing loss/aided),

Evan (11, asthma and mild hearing loss/unaided),

and Kelsey - (9 going on 19!)

>From: " osdbmom " <osdbmom@...>

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>Subject: another crazy question

>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:49:25 -0000

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>and maybe this is OT, but then again, maybe not. The fellow who first

>checked out the kids yesterday thoughtfully showed me that my 5 yr old

>has a freakish tongue. That is called, geographic tongue. Now that she

>has showed it to me (THANKS A LOT) I cant stop looking at it. The kid

>has a wierd tongue. What to do?LOL

>I googled a little bit b/c I couldnt help myself, and b/c she said its

> " just a genetic " thing, problem being with telling me that, most of

>his problems are " just genetic things " so that isnt really a great

>thing to tell me.

>So I googled, and find it can be caused from certain vitamin

>deficiencies. Now, I dont know how long he has had this freakish

>tongue, though the dr asked me, b/c come on, howmany of us stare at

>the kids tongue? Or maybe I should be and wasnt? Dont tell me!!!

>I was wondering and overexamining this in my head,and yes I realize I

>am overexamining it, but IF he has this caused from vitamin def, could

>that be related to the other immune deficiencies? Again, stupid or

>not? seems to be the question of the day.

>valarie

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