i have a 7 year old daughter with salt-wasting they did her surgery at 6 months and at 2 1/2 years she did real good, when she gets sick we do stress dose and call the doctor and go from there, it was real hard at frist but we have ajusted know just try not to weary to much this is the best place to be, i wish i knew about the message board when Nikki was born