Reflux Help & Support Thread

[BabyJ'sMummy]

Hiya, just wanted to say that my lo had silent reflux from about 8 weeks, I thought that weaning would help straight away..we weaned at 5 1/2 months, it didn't but about 2 or 3 weeks ago something just seemed to click and he no longer suffers from it and we've totally stopped the infant gaviscon and changed his milk from the comfort back to the normal milk He'll be 8 months this weekend and although I woudn't say that he loves his milk he drinks the required amount for him being weaned on to 3 meals a day. Just wanted to share and say that there is light at the end of the tunnel!

 

[anna matronic]

Anna you poor thing

Try stopping the wind stuff, it relaxes the muscle at the top if the stomach (to help the wind out) might help?
Have you tried cutting out all dairy/choc/tomatoes for a few days? If thats making him worse you should see some immediate improvement, even just a little. Are his poos mucusy at all? Like there is clear snot in it?

With Nim its makes her a lot worse if i have any of them, much more pukey, unsettled, doesnt feed as well. I hate it as I feel like its my fault shes in pain, but its also hard going without everything!
I have formula in the cupboad and when shes refusing to latch and suck I look at it, but its regular stuff and im pretty certain would cause more issues cos of the dairy protein

He is hitting the 3 month magic colic mark and I see improvement already. He used to wake up with terrible trapped wind I'll give that a go. His poo's have always been perfectly normal (yellow and seedy) no green, no mucus, so I never thought it would be an intolerence. Also, I have a weird diet where I actually eat very little dairy and bread (dunno how I survive!!) I should cut out chocolate though see if that helps.

He slept REALLY well last night, straight dow with no probs at all, fed at half 2 after I woke him up (by accident grrr!) and went straight back down. The reflux doesn't seem to affect him during night feeds as he feeds and goes straight back to sleep, sometimes I find a pool of sick next to his head sometimes not!

He had 2 oz of formula just to take the gaviscon and as I burped him up came the sick

But he is at least very calm today

 

[stardust599]

Anna you poor thing

Try stopping the wind stuff, it relaxes the muscle at the top if the stomach (to help the wind out) might help?
Have you tried cutting out all dairy/choc/tomatoes for a few days? If thats making him worse you should see some immediate improvement, even just a little. Are his poos mucusy at all? Like there is clear snot in it?

With Nim its makes her a lot worse if i have any of them, much more pukey, unsettled, doesnt feed as well. I hate it as I feel like its my fault shes in pain, but its also hard going without everything!
I have formula in the cupboad and when shes refusing to latch and suck I look at it, but its regular stuff and im pretty certain would cause more issues cos of the dairy protein

He is hitting the 3 month magic colic mark and I see improvement already. He used to wake up with terrible trapped wind I'll give that a go. His poo's have always been perfectly normal (yellow and seedy) no green, no mucus, so I never thought it would be an intolerence. Also, I have a weird diet where I actually eat very little dairy and bread (dunno how I survive!!) I should cut out chocolate though see if that helps.

He slept REALLY well last night, straight dow with no probs at all, fed at half 2 after I woke him up (by accident grrr!) and went straight back down. The reflux doesn't seem to affect him during night feeds as he feeds and goes straight back to sleep, sometimes I find a pool of sick next to his head sometimes not!

He had 2 oz of formula just to take the gaviscon and as I burped him up came the sick

But he is at least very calm today

The reflux doesn't seem to affect Macy overnight either. She takes 2 or 3 night feeds of 4oz and goes straight back down with no complaints. COme morning she's a monster child again and will snack on 1oz every few hours to keep her going until night time again. Back to paediatrician today.

For those who give younger babies omeprazole/LOSEC - how do you get LO to take it. At the moment we have to mix it with water and syringe it to her but she hates it and 99% of it get spat out.I've tried everything

I've heard you can mix it with a teeny bit of pureed apple or pear though :-S

xx

 

[AP]

Losec dose: Alex is on 10mg and always has. I do think she needed more to start with but with her age and weight gaining it's become less of an issue. Shes now 20lb but shes been on it since like, god knows when! Nearly a year now!

We get the tablets, and put them in the tiniest bit of warm water,(enough to cover the tab) and leave the tablet to open up(like a flower!)
We then put the mixture in a fruit puree or baby rice/porridge. I'm thinking if u have a really young baby a small bit of this wouldn't be a prob, for medicinal sake.

I have remembered, when alex began to feed herself and wind herself, the reflux did ease up a bit too. Baby age can be the worst because the sick drenches you!

 

[xkirstyx]

emily is still constipated the water isnt doing anything but the gaviscon seems to be working she no longer screams after bottles only now she screams at nigt between 7 ans 11 or during the day when i put her down in her moses basket and will onky sleep in my arms i got her a moby wrap so i can have my hands free but now worry shes gonna get to clingy to me.

 

[Farie]

Anna, glad he's happier today fingers crossed he keeps feeling better as he gets past the magic age. Sounds like food triggers aren't really a issue, see if the choc or tomato helps, but it seems like you've already got that covered

Nims good overnight too (thank god) she just turns feral during daylight hours apparently the stomach doesn't make acid at night, so that's why a lot of babies are ok - if they are bad at night it's a acid over production issue or something

Stardust, yup Nim gets hers in puree, I dip the end of my finger in pear puree then use it to stick the granules to, then just pop my finger onto her mouth and 'wipe' off the puree/granules along her cheek. She loves her little taste of 'real food'

 

[Khloeee]

Back from GP. He prescribed infant gaviscon. I BF so will need to mix it with water and put it in a bottle. This will sound like a stupid question but...how do I prepare the cooled boiled water? Can I just use the kettle and wait until the water cools down or does it need to boil for longer?

 

[bathbabe]

Back from GP. He prescribed infant gaviscon. I BF so will need to mix it with water and put it in a bottle. This will sound like a stupid question but...how do I prepare the coed boiled water? Can I just use the kettle and wait until the water cools down or does it need to boil for longer?

as long as the water in the kettle had previously been boiled you can use it. It doesnt have to be warm water. so for example, when you wake up in the morning, boil your kettle and just use that water thru out the day x

 

[Khloeee]

Back from GP. He prescribed infant gaviscon. I BF so will need to mix it with water and put it in a bottle. This will sound like a stupid question but...how do I prepare the coed boiled water? Can I just use the kettle and wait until the water cools down or does it need to boil for longer?

as long as the water in the kettle had previously been boiled you can use it. It doesnt have to be warm water. so for example, when you wake up in the morning, boil your kettle and just use that water thru out the day x

OK thanks. So I need to boil the kettle a few times before it's OK to use?

 

[shalagirl]

Hi Kloee i give my Lo infant gavison. I boil some water in a kettle then pour some into a cup to cool. I keep the cup covered with a saucer till I need it. I usually do that before I start a bf then by the time we r ready it's cool. I also sterilise a bottle before a feed too. If I forget and need the cool water quickly I set in cup in a dish of cold tap water. I them mix the cooled boiled water, gavison and TINY amount of expressed Breast milk and give it in a tommy tippee bottle after every other feed. Lo feeds about six times a day so he gets three gaviscons. I find u need to give the gaviscon quick as it thickens up and becomes hard for Lo to take. As size two teet might work better than a size one. In the morning when my boobs full express 1 to 2 ozs that does me at least a day to mix gavison. I also warm the gaviscon bottle v slightly in a cup of hot warm to take the
Chill of the breast milk from the fridge. Hope that helps.

 

[little_em]

Reflux really is awful. I don't understand why the GP's are so reluctant to do something about it when babies are obviously in pain. It took us 5 month to finally get Charlie prescribed carobel and ranitidine. It got to the point where we bipassed the doctors and called SCBU (Charlie was in SCBU when born and they told us to ring them if we ever had any problems), we went straight in, they took one look at him and said 'reflux'. It had got to the stage where Charlie was being sick about 50 times a day - no exageration.
When he first got put on medication he was more comfortable but was still being sick quite a lot. When we first started weaning he was still being sick. Now at 9 and a 1/2 months I can say that he is a lot better!!! We are no thinking of starting to wean him off medication - fingers crossed!!!!!!!!

This is a great thread to support each other through the early stages - reflux just seems to go on for a lifetime!

 

[bathbabe]

Back from GP. He prescribed infant gaviscon. I BF so will need to mix it with water and put it in a bottle. This will sound like a stupid question but...how do I prepare the coed boiled water? Can I just use the kettle and wait until the water cools down or does it need to boil for longer?

as long as the water in the kettle had previously been boiled you can use it. It doesnt have to be warm water. so for example, when you wake up in the morning, boil your kettle and just use that water thru out the day x

OK thanks. So I need to boil the kettle a few times before it's OK to use?

Nope just once is fine

 

[anna matronic]

Another way I give gaviscon (it says this on the packet) is to mix it with 15ml of cooled water and just give it to him via a syringe.Thats quite easy.

I spoke to the pharmacist today as I git his gaviscon prescription. Pharmacist told me to go back to the GP because although the gaviscon makes him more settles, he "shouldn't" still be being sick as the gaviscon should be stopping that and the problems with his poo makes it worse.

He's just chucked up thick white sick. He was last fed about 2 hours 15 mins ago

 

[Worrisome]

Yeah Anna Millie is the same, interesting about what the chemist said.
Well I have been putting Millie to the breast more and more today and cut the formula right down, on a bit of a feeding frenzy until I can get my milk up. Anyway I digress, She has so far only been sick twice and has been really calm, so fingers crossed could be working.

 

[charlotte-xo]

hi everyone..i posted the other day about alfie and him getting better as hes on infant gaviscon...well i spoke to soon i think i jinxed myself!!

its started back up again..fussing with bottles, refusing food, gulping milk when he does manage to drink, crying constantly !!
i thought wed just got him okish he was in abit of a routine, smiling constantly really calm and now hes like the devil incarnated!! i know its not his fault and i feel so sorry for him but i just dont know what more to do. went back to the doctor today told him all this he still wants me to wean him off gaviscon i could cry i really could..

i just dont know what to do now

=(

 

[SilasLove]

I can't do this anymore! I just can't!

Since Madelyn's first bottle she has been spitting up. Its not just a bit here or there, its tons ALL THE TIME. I am not exaggerating, I am not trying to find a quick fix to anything. Its a serious issue, she is uncomfortable but her doctor is being a twit about it.

She gets sick probably (at least) 30 times a day. Its constant, I am always wiping away at her. She is uncomfortable. Its a lot better than when she was only a few weeks old, but it still sucks. Sometimes I just don't know what to do! So I just give her a bit more food so I can get myself together and figure out something that makes her better. I hate hearing her cry when she is being burped, and with nearly each burp comes a fountain of milk. Sometimes its just the milk, like it looked when she drank it. Sometimes its thick, usually has some bit of mucous in it and other times it just looks like mucous that is coming up! (is that normal?)

I have done my best. Dr wants to try her on different formula. I put her on Enfamil for Newborns, but it made her miserable after about 3 bottles. She was just not herself x 50. So put her right back on Enfamil Prosobee (soy). We burp, elevate - doesn't help. She sleeps on her tummy, can't let her sleep on her back because she spits up and chokes. On my toes constantly at night because usually if she is rooting around and making noise she has been sick or is going to be sick and have to clean her up so she isn't just lying her face in it.

She hardly ever wears clothes. Whats the point? They are dirty and ruined after about 5 mins of wearing them. Going out? Bleh. Good thing we don't do it much. Would have to bring a suitcase of clothes and burp rags. We go through 4+ burp rags a day. I have gotten to where I use one, let it dry for a bit and use a different one (up to 4 a day) and just reuse them as best I can. Sounds gross, which it is, but really have no choice anymore.

She was 8lbs 14.4oz on her 2 month check-up. That is 10th percentile for weight. But doctor didn't want her on meds yet, wanted to try a different formula. I just can't do it anymore. (Today has been a bad day - can you tell?)

 

[Worrisome]

Im just of to bath Millie, but didnt want to read and run but I will come back and reply,probably as Millie is the same mucus wise
big

 

[Farie]

if I was you I'd go back and see the Dr again and don't take no for an answer. If the spitting was painfree etc I could understand reluctance to treat as it's basically a laundry issue.
But when bub is in pain it's a different story. The fact she's bringing up mucus as well as milk would indicate she def needs a acid inhibitor, it's a classes sign of to much acid. Although it might be worth investigating why she's producing so much - could it be a soy allergy?

 

[SilasLove]

I'm not sure, she was on regular Enfamil first day in hospital, but the second day they switched her to soy because she was spitting up so much. We went home the second day (day after she was born). Before we left they were talking about putting her on a special formula but we left hospital so soon because OH wanted to go back to work. Anyhow, Idk. Doctor noticed the mucous when she spit-up while seeing us and asked if it was always like that - said yes - but she didn't say anymore about it. ??

 

[SilasLove]

Just sharing this. Its one she just did. Lots of mucous.

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