If you are interested in looking for a probiotic/enzyme supplement other than the one I recommended, I can give you some ideas of what to look for in a product to ensure it is of good quality.

Oh WOW!! That does sound scary!! I'm going to call the company where I get my supplements from and ask if they think there is any way that enzymes could make a child get worse. I'm sorry things have gotten bad so quickly. :(

I looked up the product Complete Digest and found it very interesting. It says right on the bottle after each ingredient, what pH levels they can live in. I googled what the average pH level of the stomach is and I read that the average is between 1 and 2. I copied and pasted this from a site that sold the CompleteGest.

Carbohydrate Digestion:     pH Range**     
Amylase                    4-6     
Phytase                    5-7
Lactase I, II             3-6
Cellulase I, II             4-6     
Sucrase                    3-6     
Maltase                    3-8     
Protein Digestion:
Protease      I        6-9
              II        5-10
              III       2-6
              IV        2-3

Fat Digestion:
Lipase     I            6-8
           II             4-8

**pH range over which enzyme is optimally active.

I wonder if these are going to be very beneficial because it looks like they will all die from the stomach acid before they can be of much help. :(

To ensure you are getting high quality enzymes...

Look for ones that are pH stabilized and can live in the low pH level of the stomach.

Also make sure they are plant based and not animal based. (CompleteGest are plant based.) The body will become dependent on animal based ones whereas with plant based ones the body views them as food.

They should include the major enzymes (protease, amylase, lipase and cellulase) and also the minor enzymes (peptidase, lactase, glucoamylase and malt diastase). (CompleteGest has most of these). The minor ones help to assist the major ones to work better.

I don't know what kind of probiotics you are using but make sure they have at least 8 different strains in them. Twelve or more is even better. Make sure it has the strain "Streptococcus thermophilus" in it because it produces lactase and is very efficient in breaking down milk products.

Make sure that they also are pH balanced and pH activated. Some probiotics are activated by heat and thus have to be refrigerated to stay alive. But they will highly likely die in our warm bodies before being of much help. Ones that are pH activated means they stay "dormant" until they reach the correct pH level where they need to be of assistance and then become activated.

If you decide to continue trying the CompleteGest then yes, I would start with a half of a capsule a day. I do not know if this is true of their product or not but at Core Health Products they say that there really isn't such a thing as overdose with the Digestive Health. It's just all in how bad your problem is and how many you need to help your system recover.

Prevacid...it can take up to a week or 2 for it to start working. I personally wouldn't give 30mg right away. I just googled "Can Prevacid make reflux worse" and some people felt that it did or could. For my children, Prevacid never made their problems completely go away. It just made them more comfortable. I was worried a lot at times that they would stop breathing but it never actually happened.

I hope that you and your baby are peacefully sleeping right now but I know reality and it might not be happening. I will say a special prayer for you both! I hope that you can soon find something to help!

my son stopped breathing - it was 'officially' called apnea & he was sent home on a monitor.

Yes, he is definitely a hand held baby -we've made good use of the front carriers so far. If I just weren't so darned tired I'd put him in it sooner, but all I wanna do is lie down. We also have the RES-Q wedge from DD which I hate to use again, but it looks like we might have to. Although I agree that it seems careless to give PPI's that shut down acid production that we need, it's hard to imagine that only probiotics and enzymes helping this baby. Having been down this road before, I'd rather start with PPI's in addition to everything else, and try to cut them out a little later down the road. Now I just gotta figure out the proper dosage for the prevacid -don't trust the peds.

oh! if you do start giving the prevacid, stop the gripe water...