I am very pleased to see a website on infant reflux.
My 4 1/2 month old son Willem is currently struggling through
the problem. It breaks my heart to watch him in so much
pain! He’s been to doctors about it since he was not
even a month old. They started by telling me he had
colic and that there was basically nothing I could do
about it. It was so frustrating to be sent home
with “your son is fine – he’ll grow out of it”,
or “babies are just fussy sometimes,” when I knew very
well he was NOT fine. So for the first three months I
just held him all day and the two of us would cry
together. Soon it got so that he couldn’t even nurse –
he would go for a few seconds and then stiffen up and
straighten out his body, arch his back and scream. Then
he’d nurse again, only to repeat the process over and
over. Finally he just stopped eating. I took him to my
clinic, and he saw a different doctor who recognized the
problem right off. She didn’t put him through any tests,
fortunately, she just wrote me out a prescription for
Prilosec, as well as another drug called Metoclopramide,
which supposedly speeds up his digestive process. The
Prilosec seems to help very well – I give him a dose
each night and he usually sleeps. I’m excited to hear
about this choco – base you refer to. I know that
Prilosec tastes nasty – so much so that I feel guilty
trying to force it down my son every night. (I always
make my husband do it.) I’m not so sure about the
Metoclopramide though – it doesn’t seem to be making
much of a difference.
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