Carobel and Colief?

[Amy31]

Can I use these together? I have put LO on colief which helped a bit I think but still has reflux. Docs prescribed carobel and said it would be ok - any experiences? Does carobel work? Thanks.

 

[waitingfor]

I don't see why they wouldn't work together but I don't have experience of Colief.
We have used carobel and found it's fantastic! We started with the highest dose for a few weeks and then dropped to the lowest dose. LO has been on it for over 2 months and we are now starting to wean her off it as her reflux is much better.

A few things to consider:
It makes her very constipated so we had to start giving her 1oz of cooled boiled water every day.
It makes her poo have a really strong sickly vanilla smell.
You might find you need faster flowing teats as it noticeably thickens the milk.
We use MAM bottles and had to switch to size 2 teats when using the higher dose. When we started to reduce the dose we found she was spluttering as the milk was flowing too fast so we switched back to size 1 teats.

Hope that helps!