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Why Is A Toddler Suffering From Excessive Mucus While Suffering From Obstructive Sleep Apnea?

My son is 23 months, 74 cm in height, 8.43 kg in weight he has clinical features of Noonan Syndrome and is extremely mucousy bring up thick mucous, he always has a lot of nasal secretions. He has Obstructive sleep apnoea and is on CPAP and is gastrostomy tube feed as well. Do you have any ideas as to why he is so mucousy. He also has severe GERD. Any ideas.
Wed, 18 May 2016
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bacause his airway is always irritated by high pressure airflow of cpap, also there is some developmental delay in noonans
constant suction and atropine or other anticholinergics plus treating GERD may help
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Why Is A Toddler Suffering From Excessive Mucus While Suffering From Obstructive Sleep Apnea?

bacause his airway is always irritated by high pressure airflow of cpap, also there is some developmental delay in noonans constant suction and atropine or other anticholinergics plus treating GERD may help