Confused about making up Infant Gaviscon - Please help

[booker1981]

Hi

My little girl has been on gaviscon for about 4 weeks now, ive been making up 5oz bottles because she drinks 4oz and put in one sachet of gaviscon. We went to clinic yesterday and she now weighs 10lb 1oz so the health visitor said i need to now give 2 sachets per bottle. After reading the back of the gaviscon packet, it says that 2 sachets need to be made up with no less than 8oz of formula - so does this mean that i need to waste all that milk at every feed or do i just stay with 1 sachet of gaviscon until she is drinking 8oz of milk and then go up to 2 sachets?


I phoned my health visitor this morning and asked her and she said "oh i dont know, ive never made up gaviscon before!!!"


Please, please help, im soooooooooo confused?

 

[justlove]

My LO was 11wks +4days old and weighed 12Ib 06oz when he was prescribed gaviscon by the pediatrician and he told me only to add one dose, he said that they come as 2sachets attached but I was only to to give half (which is one dose) must of thought I was dim because he explained 3times making it clear only to give one dose. My LO has 5oz bottles but takes between 4 to 4 and half oz.

One dose makes 5oz formula thicker am just wondering if two doses will make it like syrup? I stopped giving it to my LO cos I found it made him worse also was talking less milk sometimes only 3oz.

If one dose is working for LO then I would stick with that or better still speak to your GP, IMO from experience with my H.V. they talk out of there arse.

 

[booker1981]

My LO was 11wks +4days old and weighed 12Ib 06oz when he was prescribed gaviscon by the pediatrician and he told me only to add one dose, he said that they come as 2sachets attached but I was only to to give half (which is one dose) must of thought I was dim because he explained 3times making it clear only to give one dose. My LO has 5oz bottles but takes between 4 to 4 and half oz.

One dose makes 5oz formula thicker am just wondering if two doses will make it like syrup? I stopped giving it to my LO cos I found it made him worse also was talking less milk sometimes only 3oz.

If one dose is working for LO then I would stick with that or better still speak to your GP, IMO from experience with my H.V. they talk out of there arse.

I couldnt agree with you more, they are supposed to be there to help you but some really dont have a clue. Im really disapointed with mine at the moment. Thank you for your reply, i think i will just stick with what she is doing at the moment and will speak to my doctor after the bank holiday.
Thank you. Yes im going to just stick with what she is having.

 

[pumpkim]

My LO is just under 10lb and also on Gaviscon, I'm planning on sticking to one dose until either his feeds increase up to the 8oz or it seems to stop working.

An alternative if you think he needs two doses is to not put it in the feed but to prepare it and feed separately as per the instructions for BF babies.

The HV at my clinic was also useless when I asked her about LOs sickness, I was offering more solutions from what I'd read on here and she was just agreeing with me

 

[bathbabe]

Id just stick to one hun. 2 is just likely to cause constipation. Even my 17lb baby just has one in a bottle. X

 

[booker1981]

Thank you everyone xx

 

[AndyyMay]

Hi

My little girl has been on gaviscon for about 4 weeks now, ive been making up 5oz bottles because she drinks 4oz and put in one sachet of gaviscon. We went to clinic yesterday and she now weighs 10lb 1oz so the health visitor said i need to now give 2 sachets per bottle. After reading the back of the gaviscon packet, it says that 2 sachets need to be made up with no less than 8oz of formula - so does this mean that i need to waste all that milk at every feed or do i just stay with 1 sachet of gaviscon until she is drinking 8oz of milk and then go up to 2 sachets?


I phoned my health visitor this morning and asked her and she said "oh i dont know, ive never made up gaviscon before!!!"


Please, please help, im soooooooooo confused?

If I'm Remember rightly
You Can't put one sachet in less then 120ml which is 4oz
and you cannot put 2 sachets in less than 240ml which is 8oz
if she's just taking the 4oz
what you could do is...
either stick to one sachet OR make up an 8oz feed then seperate it into two 4oz feeds...i did this at one point when my daughter was taking abit more of a feed but not as much as 8oz

....Not sure if gaviscon worked much on my daughter...was fine for a while but she's gone back to bringing up all her feeds...
apprently she's got acid reflux.

xxx