Hi. Has anyone else had their child’s spit up be pink (without foods coloring it)?
Here’s what’s happening: My 10 mth son has MSPI/MFPI and reflux. Something has been out of whack for several weeks – every night for almost 3 weeks, I have been up with him 5-7 times a night as he does his reflux posturing and twisting/struggling to find a comfortable position. Mylanta helps a bit but not much. We found a new, cooperative ped on Thursday who researched the Marci-kids info and ordered 40 mg packets of Zegerid for him (which we can pick up from the pharmacy tomorrow finally – delayed due to the holiday weekend). In the meantime, he is on compounded Prevacid (3mg/ml). For 4 days now, I have upped the dosage from 2 ml twice a day (as prescribed several months and pounds ago) to 4 ml twice a day. It hasn’t helped to end these endless nights!
Yesterday, I gave him baby food pears and sweet potatoes at 2:30 PM. At 7:30 PM, he spit up sweet potato-colored spit up all over me (5 hours later and 1 or 2 nursings later). Is it normal for babies to hold stomach contents for that long?
I normally supplement nursing with Neocate. Today, I’ve gone to only Neocate (pumping in the meantime) in order to eliminate the possibility of my diet being the culprit for his current problems. I did not give him any solids today either. At 7:30 PM, he refused to take a bottle – that has NEVER happened before. About an hour later, he spit up a big deposit of pink spit up. (Smelled like Neocate, not vomit.) Around 11 PM, he finally took a bottle, gave two big burps, and settled in to sleep around 11:30. About 15 mins later, he spit up a huge, giant quantity of more pink spit up. He was only mad since I was cleaning him up and changing his clothes and bedding – not crying in pain. He quickly fell back to sleep. Any thoughts about pink spit up? His normal Neocate spit up is white.
Thanks for any info/thoughts.
Dianne
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