Gaviscon or SMA Staydown?

[minnieoxox]

After weeks of trying to treat LO for colic with no improvement, she has finally been diagnosed with silent reflux and prescribed infant gaviscon. After 3 feeds with the gaviscon in she seems better already. I'm just wondering would it be stupid to change it now and use SMA Staydown instead? Does it work as well or do the same thing? Anyone who has used both?

 

[sapphire1]

I would just stick with the gaviscon if it seems to be working. Staydown is designed for regular reflux really, where they're projectile vomitting. My LO had silent reflux and the gaviscon made it worse, she was switched to ranitidine which helps reduce the acid rather than thickening the milk.

 

[Ktothema]

We had to try stay down before ds was given gaviscon. It did seem to help for about a week and a bit, but was a complete arse to make up and clogged teats lots. Was so hard for ds to digest it seemed to make him worse in the end after an initial miracle period! Was so good to go back to normal milk with gaviscon. In the end ds needed ranitidine too but we use it in combination with gaviscon.

I'd suggest sticking with gaviscon if it seems like its working, if you stop and switch they'll probably get you to go back to it if stay down fails. Though I'd suggest trying aptamil's anti reflux milk rather than sma if you did want to try. Its not meant to clog teats the same way. Though you can't make up an instant bottle of anti reflux milk, or pre make (goes cement like) so its a real FAFF if baby still wakes for a night feed.

 

[wookie3]

I'd stick with Gaviscon. SMA Staydown didn't work for my LO.

 

[Baby2012]

I'm a massive fan of sma staydown even though its a royal pain to make x