The CHARLIE is Kozie’s baby, toddler, and little boy medically adaptive one-piece carefully designed to adapt with many medical treatments. Designed to provide safe, adorable, and comfortable dressing.  This adorable Sensory soft one-piece body suit offers all front snap closure and snap closure at both shoulders and crotch.The overlaying belt/band covers the belly for added support and protection from little grabbing hands. Safe, easy no overhead dressing required.  Our specialized one-piece body suit was designed with the assistance of Pediatric Nurses, Special Needs Parents, and Sensory Therapists and includes easy access for the following medical treatments:

1.      ENTERNAL FEEDING/GASTROSTOMY TUBE FEEDING(G-TUBE) to support children with certain medical conditions who cannot eat enough food by mouth, to enhance children’s nutrition, and to aid the metabolic demands of the stress of illness such as:

§ Congenital heart defects as with ventricular or a trial septal defects or severe Malformations such as; tetralogy or Fallot, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

§ Congenital Anomalies of the upper Gastrointestinal Tract such; as Esophageal Atresia, Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Esophageal Duplications, Developmental Obstructive Defects of the stomach such as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Gastric atresia, congenital gastricobstruction, and Duodenal Obstruction/atresia, etc.

§ Metabolic disorders such as; Adrenal Hypoplasia, Argininosuccinate lyase deficiency, Argininosuccinic Aciduria, etc.

§ Neurological Impairment as with Massive Brain Damage. For example Infantile Cerebral Palsy, Anoxia Brain Injury, Brain Tumors, Cerebral Atrophy, Cerebellar Hypoplasia, Cerebral Cavernous Malformation and Head Trauma, etc.

§ Genetic syndromes/Chromosomal syndromes causing feeding/eating disorders such as; Alagille Syndrome, Alexander’s Disease,Alfi’s Syndrome, Allan Herdon Dudley Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Antley-bixler Syndrome, Barth Syndrome, Bartter Syndrom, Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, Bohring, Costello Syndrome, Silver-Russel Syndrome, Franceschetti syndrome, Noonan-syndrome, Corneila deLage Syndrome etc. Syndrome related malformations such as heart defect in Down syndrome, choanal atresia in CHARGE-syndrome and many more

§ Psychosomatic/psychiatric eating disorders such as infantile anorexia

§ Children who suffer from cancer may need ENS during chemotherapy to help prevent them from losing weight.

§ Children suffering from renal insufficiency or renal diseases often lack appetite

§ Prematurity

§ Absent Swallow Reflex, Achalasia, Aspiration

§ Craniofacial such as Cervical Lymphangioma, Cleft pallet, etc.

§ Some children with Autism

2.     TRACHEOSTOMIES to relieve an obstruction to breathing.  This may be found in the following conditions and more

§ Tracheal/Bronchial Malasia

§ Polyps and weak muscles in the trachea

§ Inability to clear mucus for the lungs and airway

§ Premature births

§ Severe breathing conditions

§ Tumors such as cystic hygroma

§ Severe infection such as epiglottitis or croup

§ Subglottic stenosis

§ Tracheomalacia

§ Vocal cord paralysis

§ Laryngeal spasms or injury

§ Congenital abnormalities of the airway

§ Obstruction of airway

§ Treacher Collins

§ Pierre Robin Syndromes

§ Severe neck or mouth injuries

§ Airway burns

§ Obstructive sleep apnea

§ Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

§ Chronic pulmonary disease

§ Chest wall injury

§ Diaphragmdys function

§ Paralyzingor weakening chest muscles and diaphragm

§ Aspiration

§ Fracture of cervical vertebrae

§ Spinal cord injury

§ Long-termun consciousness or coma

§ Centralapnea

§ Congenital Central Hypoventilation

§ Facial surgery

§ Facial burns

§ Anaphylaxis

3.      PORTS AND CATHETERS, Porta a Catheter, or Port a Cath are often necessary for IV medicines, fluids, taking blood samples,and other IV treatment requirements.  A few conditions may require a port or Cath such as

§ Cancer treatments, Chemotherapy

§ Cystic Fibrosis

§ Diabetes Mellitus

§ Pancreatic Insufficiency

§ Chronic Illnesses

§ Etc.

Colors Available: Grey with navy

Fabric / Material: 100% Cotton

Made in USA

Washing instructions: Machine wash in cold with like colors, Tumble dry low, only non-chlorine bleach