“They told us it was normal.” One of the worst diagnoses you can get is that something is wrong when it is This is actually wrong. Even more so if what is at stake is the health of the newborn. That desperate phrase, heard in doctors’ offices, until not long ago coexisted with an incompatible experience: the daily nightmare of Salvador and his parents. Every time the baby had to be fed.
Antonella, a new mother, remembers noticing that something was wrong in El Salvador from the day she was born. The child showed symptoms that many attributed to her Minor crampsBut the comings and goings of the guard became more frequent. Savior He was writhing in painI could cry for six hours straight and the nights were endless.
He was not sleeping and neither were his parents. More than two months passed without answers or solutions. Until they found The pediatrician who finally listened to them. “He didn’t belittle us because we were training for the first time; he understood that our son was struggling,” says Antonella. And so they began a path to find the cause of the problem and improve El Salvador’s quality of life.
Antonella says that although she made an effort to maintain breastfeeding, she experienced low milk production and was unable to reverse it, even with the support of her childcare provider and changes to her diet. Given medical advice, it was necessary to give the baby formula milk. They tried many common things and El Salvador I rejected them: “I couldn’t stand them, I was in very severe pain, I was nervous, crying non-stop and had indigestion attacks Increasingly severe“, says the mother.
Finally, when they hit the switch, it started New battle. Because the solution was Medical milk It is specifically prescribed for this type of gastrointestinal disorder. Thus, the child was able to feed properly and begin to gain weight, but the problem was its cost and the prepaid company’s refusal to cover it. The price list for each package in the pharmacy is 80 thousand pesos.
“At that time, Salvador needed three cans a month. Today, at eight months old, he It takes eight cans. “We managed to make it cheaper through a distributor,” Antonella says. Medical coverage He refused at first He paid for the product, arguing that the formulation was not a drug and that Salvador’s symptoms were typical of his biological and mature age.
But just as the beginning Nutritional solution It started with a pediatrician who listened to this family and saved them from a nightmare, the second chapter of the struggle Legal intervention. So they turned to the Medical Milk Association, which is dedicated to providing support — and litigation if necessary — so families can access this special milk at no cost.
From that moment everything changed. At the next pediatric examination, Salvador Go from the fourth growth rate to the tenth. “Digestive disorders have decreased significantly, and the constant crying, irritability, sleeplessness, guard visits and diarrhea have disappeared,” sums up Antonella, who lives in Tigre.
After the trip, the 34-year-old mother noted, “Behind every diagnosis there is something Long way He is often alone. Getting counseling and getting the treatment I needed has made a difference. The Medical Milk Association was created by Leandro Desplats, a lawyer who at the time was struggling with the same problem.
With the support of National Law No. 27305which guarantees access to therapeutic milk, decided Desplats Free help For families who are deprived of this basic food by Social Security or prepaid insurance. Instagram to contact is @leches.medicamentosas; And the website to start the claim, www.lechesmedicamentosas.com.ar.