Is there a Medicine that helps sleep?

Wow – that sounds so wonderful! I wonder if it would work for Caden too??? Is Gaviscon a prescription drug or OTC? Can you tell I don’t have reflux? I have NO clue where my kids got their reflux from as neither my husband nor I have reflux. I didn’t even have it during my pregnancies – well, just a little on this last one, but no burning – just the feeling of something coming up sometimes (sorry). So, everything I’ve learned about the medications, I’ve learned from reading (mostly here).

Anyway, I am VERY interested to learn more about this. Where can I find your original post on this?

Thanks so much!

Natalia,

What I’m trying to understand is if the PPIs work so well, why do so many people have to add other medicines to help their children sleep at night? Is it just because the children metabolize the PPI meds quickly, and then they are basically without meds at night?

Also, my son’s daytime fussiness wasn’t under control even with the 30 mg of Prevacid, so either he is fussy for another reason or the medication just didn’t cut it for him.

I’ve gotten my overactive letdown in control, and that has helped a lot, but he still has days where he’s really fussy, and I’m suspicious that reflux is the culprit.

So, that is the reason I am again debating putting him on some type of medication. I just don’t know which one.

I’m wondering if I should try Prevacid solutabs this time, since last time we were on the oral suspension that had to be mixed up every time, and I’m not sure he always got every white ball down, etc.

Also, I’m not convinced that the Prevacid didn’t make matters worse in a way, because he seemed to have tummy trouble from it.

I think I’ve read several posts about mylanta not working as well as maalox and gaviscon-maybe try a search to see if you can find it? I’ll look and post it as a link if I can find one. Mylanta doesn’t work super well for Aidan. Was he ever on Zantac? Aidan takes that from time to time, he’s like Caden, silent refluxer, med free, but sometiems has a flareup or 2 (if he’s teething or sick). It really helps him at night…but it also has alcohol in it which knocks him out, I know some who get it w/out the alcohol, but Aidan takes it so infrequently that I don’t worry about it (and honestly, sometimes the sleepiness effect is good for both of us, I’ll totally admit that)-Also, gental naturals has something called tummy soother, it’s like gripe water without the sodium bicarb, it’s just ginger, fennel and chammomile. It really helps
Aidan’s tummy settle. They sell it at Target, Walmart, CVS.etc, might be worth a try?

When Adriana was on regular milk based formula she was very fussy. There were no other symptoms of a milk protein intolerance, jsut very fussy. Every time we tried to switch her back to a milk based formula she got fussy again. SO, it could be a milk protein allergy.

I just tried Pepcid Complete tonight for the 1st time for sleeping. We’ll se how it works.

i would try cutting out ALL dairy and ALL soy. many babies that have a milk protein intolerance also have a soy protein intolerance-hence MSPI.

look at labels and check for hidden dairy and soy-they can have different names.

good luck.

Already did that for a month – actually it was the strict Dr. Sears elimination diet.

I will say again that I really don’t think my diet is the problem.

I appreciate the suggestion though. I’m open-minded and would consider just about anything I haven’t tried already.

Thanks!

Emily

I have just read this after replying to your PM.

A couple of thoughts

When you used the prevacid..it was the strawberry flavoured suspension?? If so did you give all of the liquid. I’m just wondering if he reacted to the other ingredients. When I used it I actually syringed of most of the strawberry liquid and just gave the beads in a small amount of liquid.

Also the PPI”s don’t shut of all the pumps so there can still be acid hanging around. Maybe it is worse at night because they are lying down and it makes the reflux worse.

The regurging sounds like reflux to me…but maybe it is non-acid and it bothers him at night because he wakes. Even if it doesn’t burn it would be annoying to have what is essentially ” non acidic vomit” coming back into the mount. Maybe the Gaviscon is worth a try?

Alana didn’t sleep through the night until she took all her formula during the day (ie 5 bottles at thats stage). The first day she fed five times during the day she didn’t wake to be fed that night. (of course as I described in my PM the meds also had kicked in at this stage).

I’m guessing poor sleep could make anyone pretty crabby during the day…actually I don’t need to guess I just need to look in the mirror