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    Posted: 30 June 2009 at 4:02pm
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so my beautiful perfect baby has developed reflux and now screams the house down al day. he is on 1.2ml ranitidine and S26 AR formula yet is still screaming the house down and spilling. firstly, how long will this take to do anything and secondly, could i give him gaviscon as well through a syringe before feeds and put brown sugar in his formala to counteract the constipation?


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Firstly reflux sucks big time so sending you 's

My DD was on omeprazole (losec) from about 6 weeks to approx 4 months and when we first started on it I noticed results within 2 - 3 days maximum. I had tried gaviscon before this but had no joy with it and it was so hard to administer especially when BF that I did not continue using it, plus the losec worked so well we did not need it. I tried a couple of time to stop the meds with disasterous results but when I tried again at 4 months we had no problems and have not used them since. There a lots of other things that help to, a dummy is a life saver for reflux babies, raising the end of the cot or bassinet (DD's is still raised) keeping them upright for as long as poss after feeds and not feeding too often if possible.

There is a really good website you may have already seen but here is the link in case you haven't Reflux Website

Hope it all comes right sometime soon, and the screaming does not do your head in. I had bad reflux in pregnancy and it was hideous so always thought of this when DD was screaming, poor wee babies.
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Hi - ugh reflux breaks your heart. Our DD is 12 weeks and developed reflucx by 3 weeks old. My advice go to your Doctor and get Losec, dont bother with anything else. Also ask for it in a suspension fluid, you just syringe it into their mouths, instead of having to crush tablets and get them in there.

Also try sticking a rolled up towel under the head end of your babies bed, and try to feed as upright as possible. We are on Nurture Plus thickened formula also. And don't switch teat sizes to quickly either, make sure your baby is ready to switch up, try a bigger teat once a day after the recommended age has been reached, once they are big enough they will adjust ot the teat ok, but forcing it makes the reflux worse.

Good luck and I hope all goes well, oh and best of all - reflux usually goes after about 15 weeks. so just hang on until then.


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My bubs is 8 weeks old tomorrow and is on Omeprozole

She is the master of power chucking!

I was also given infant gaviscon which was next to useless!

I have a paedatrician appointment on the 13th as she is still a power spewer on the drugs but better than what she was - she is always chucking!

She can not have had a feed for 3 hours and still chucks!   oh and day time sleeps are a thing of the past as she just screams and spews!

Big hugs - there have been a few times i have sat on the couch with her with several spew soaked cloth nappies in my hand from mopping up spew and i have been sobbing away! it aint easy!!
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Hey hun, hope things are improving after another few days on the meds.

Just wanted to add (to my reply in the other thread) that we had C in his capsule or the front pack A LOT in the first few weeks as keeping him upright kept him so much happier. I was worried about it (sleep associations and also being in the capsule too long) but the nurses at our Well Baby clinic made me feel better by pointing out that he would never be in the capsule longer than about 1.5 - 2hr as he was feeding 3 hrly and taking 45mins+ to feed! As for sleep associations, well he was too young to worry about it really but they also suggested just doing what we had to do to get through the reflux. Thankfully it DOESN'T last forever, it just feels like it

Sorry for the novel
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