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i know that most of you on this board have infants/toddlers with reflux. at 4 1/2 julianna still has reflux. i don’t want to discourage anyone (at 2 1/2 my boys seem to be doing fine!
a little mylanta here and there- but no prescription meds since 18 months!) but julianna has had in the past few weeks a full fledged reflux relapse.she is on axid. we had tried prevacid for her last year without success. my concern right now (and of course peds office is closed today- so please excuse my rambling rant) is that she has a very wet sounding cough. last night we were up from 12 am until 3 am with her b/c she was coughing so violently. it doesn’t sound like croup, she does not have any nasal congestion at all and is not bringing up any phlegm. she does not have a fever. this morning she coughed and then spit up a little in the trash can in the bathroom.
before starting her on the axid she was not sleeping at all (literally up every hour- walking down the hall and into my bedroom), she had hiccups many times throughout the day, she didn’t want to eat b/c she said that it hurt her belly and even the hygenist at the dentists office said that her breath smelled acidy during her check-up.
also, listed on the phamphlet from the pharmacy about the axid was that one of the side effects could be cough. she has been on axid for a week now. wouldn’t that have subsided as her body adjusts to the medication? also she was not coughing at all after the first few doses of axid, then maybe once or twice in the night but not enough to wake her like last night.
we’ve also eliminated all chocolate, citrus (she had been drinking low acid oj) and tomatoes from her diet.
any suggestions on where to go from here? any websites that have information about little kids and reflux? she is supposed to start pre-school on wednesday. i really had thought that once we figured out the lactose intolerance issue that she was fine. i am feeling discouraged that she might never outgrow this. and to add to this now she is terrified of the doctor. last year she had an endoscopy/colonoscopy which she vaguely remembers, but she does not like going to the GI and cries when we go to the ped. she fell in march and had to have stitches on her chin so any medical setting really freaks her out.
sorry to ramble on.
i guess i’m just having a bad day! What about trying another PPI drug, like Proilsec or Zegerid instead of the Prevacid? I now these usually help more then the H2 blockers. I hope she gets reflief soon. HUGS
I am so sorry you (and especially Julianna!) are still dealing with this. I know you said the Prevacid did not seem to work for her but here is a link to the Prevacid kid’s website that does have information about reflux in children. Hope you can get it under control soon.
just thought i’d give an update.
the ped said julianna has a sinus infection and is on omnicef and a prescription for her cough. the ped feels that the sinus infection came first and caused her reflux flare up. he’d like to keep her on the axid until she completes the omnicef, wait a few days, then take her off the axid and see what happens.
but i am wondering, could the sinus infection be a result of her reflux? i know with my boys they stopped getting ear infections when they stopped refluxing. while their reflux was out of control- even on prevacid- they were getting at least one or sometimes 2 ear infections a month.
it’s such a big confusing circle- what comes first? what causes what!! anyway she has been on the antibiotic for 4 days now and her cough does not seem to be getting any better. she is sleeping better though- but i think that the cough meds have something to do with that.
but she’s my little trooper. you’d never know that she has this going on. she’s all smiles and happy to be back at preschool with “the big kids!”
Good luck with the ped’s plan. It really is confusing trying to figure out what caused what. To me it seems more likely that reflux would have caused the sinus infection, but he’s the doctor so hopefully he’s right and she can come off of the Axid and be fine without it once the infection clears up.
I hope she’s feeling better soon.
christine- i agree with you. i really think it is more likely that the reflux led to the sinus infection, so we’ll see. although i love this ped (he can actually get the boys to sit perfectly still for an ear exam and a throat culture!) i find that when it comes to reflux stuff he blows it off. luckly, there is another ped in the practice who we see more often and she is always willing to listen to my thoughts- she just wasn’t in that day. but i think i might try. maybe he’s right! that would be a relief!
lynn- i’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that the zegerid works for kayleigh!
our ped told us to space out the axid and the omnicef as well, but when i picked up the omnicef and the prescription cough meds at the pharmacy i asked the pharmacist and he said it didn’t matter. just to be safe though i am listening to the doctor. i give the omnicef in the am, the axid w/ lunch and at bedtime. did the prevacid just not control kayleigh’s reflux or did she have side effects?
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