What am I doing wrong?

I think the mucous in the stools is a sign of an intolerance to something you’re/he’s eating. I could be wrong though…try searching the forum for mucousy stools and see what pops up. I haven’t had that happen with Sarah…but I really think I remember reading that somewhere on here. I know there have also been a lot of good posts on the main culprits that babies are sensitive to, but I can’t think of them off the top of my head b/c we haven’t had that issue. I’m thinking like wheat, soy, etc…Could the mucous maybe be from too much mylanta also? Hmmm, keep an eye on his stools after you cut back on the mylanta and see if they still seem mucousy.

I wish I knew a trick to cut back on the taste of the zegerid. It is SOOOO super sweet. I’ve tasted it before and it’s too much for even me! I can easily see why some babies wouldn’t like the taste of it. That’s too bad he doesn’t like it in his bottles…I’d say you could try mixing it with more formula, but then you run the risk of him not being hungry enough to eat all of it.

Hang in there and hopefully you can figure something out soon!
Amy

I’m sorry things are so hard right now. I’ve sure been there and I know how helpless you feel. There’s nothing worse than not knowing how to help your baby.

If he’s MSPI it could take two weeks after he stops ingesting the offending proteins for his gi tract to recover (if that’s the right word), so hopefully things will improve as you continue the elimination diet. There are an amazing number of product which contain soy oils and soy lecithin (whatever the heck that is), so maybe you’ve been ingesting soy without realizing it.

Myles hated all meds at that age and I had a horrible time getting him to take anything. I learned a trick that may help. I used to put his dose of whatever he was getting into a little medicine cup and add a little baby cereal (oatmeal – make sure it’s Beechnut which is soy free if you decide to try this). I’d make it thick enough that I could feed it to him by spoon. The reason this worked well is that it was too thick to spit out easily and when he did push it out with his tongue I was able to scoop it back up with the spoon and push it back in as many times as it took for him to swallow it all. This worked great and I rarely lost any of his dose this way. Maybe poor little Ben is just losing too much of his Zegerid dose when he spits it out.

I sure hope things get better soon.

I’m so sorry Naomi. Poor little guy! Could he possibly have come down with something? A a cold, sore throat, earache, etc. could make his reflux worse, and make him spit out his medicine… Just an idea.

I hope you can find out what’s bothering him.

I am so sorry to hear about Ben. I know that when we tried Brianna on Zegerid we had the same issue with her spitting it out…not matter what we did. She did sleep better initially, but when she began spitting everything out, we ended up going back to the prevacid (but making sure she was on a high enough dose) and that is where we stayed. I never did the elimination diet(I wish I had, but I was so new to everything being a first time mom, and I was getting people telling me that was silly, etc), but just to be safe, I avoided all dairy and soy, even hidden….to this day I don’t know if it really helped or not, but it made me feel better. But I think if you do the elimination diet as it is supposed to be done, and keep good notes when you add foods back in, you might find the answer you are looking for, or if nothing else, closure.

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