Floppy windpipe

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My DS who is 6 months has just been diagnosed with a floppy windpipe. He has to have a camera down thus throat in the next few week to determine if there is anything else wrong and to see the severity of it.

Has anyone else's little ones had this procedure done? How were they with the anaesthetic? What were their symptoms?

I'm dreading watching him be put to sleep but I know it's a simple operation and his surgeon is lovely!

Hi
My son had this done in December, I was absolutely dreading the fact he wasn't going to be able to have a feed after a certain time (2am) because of the anaesthetic, he woke up at midnight and fed him decided not to wake him for his feed, we left home at 5.30am and got to the hospital for 7am. Got admitted and we were 3rd on the list which meant he didnt go down until 9.30am for the procedure he started to get really unsettled by about 9am. Anyway we got taken down to the room before the theatre as they were putting him to sleep in theatre so wasnt allowed in. The doctors were very kind and reassuring when they took him in. During the procedure they snipped the flesh just above the wind pipe to release the tension, they didnt find anything else. We stayed close and they paged us when he was out of theatre, he was absolutely hysterical to the point they were going to sedate him to bring his heart rate down but as soon as i got there and held him he calmed right down and 20 minutes later we were back on the ward. Was allowed to feed him about an hour after that, he was obviously sore as wouldn't take much milk and we were kept in overnight which wasn't great as he wouldn't settle at all and we ended up being moved into our own room because he was keeping others awake. He had pain relief all through the night (i made them take his cannula out about 1am though because he kept knocking it and it was hurting him) by the about 8am the next morning he was pretty much back to normal. Breathing was a lot less noisy and by about 3 weeks was almost 'normal'. In the last few weeks the noise has returned so he is going back to be assessed next month.