Need caracream?

Hi Stacey! How are you!!! I will give you a quick update on us, right after I answer the questions for Lori.

I have 9 bottles of caracream, and 8 bottles of the therasol. Some of the therasol expire in April though. All of the caracream have various expiration dates. I can get you all the dates, let me know if you are interested. As for the jr bottles, I have 5 of those. They expire 10/18/06. The therasol that goes with them already expired. Maybe Joel can tell you whether you can just buy some therasol to go with?

So, Elana has imroved ever so slowly. I really got the hang of the PPI thing, with the help of this board, Joel, and Dr P. I have been spending most of my time on a Neocate board these last 8-9 months. Elana is now eating about 15 foods. She just passed soy a few weeks back. But she has not gained any weight in 8 months. So the doc wants her to stay on neocate because the calorie content is higher. However, neocate just changed their formulation, and LOTS of babies are reacting to it. We will do a trial on the new formulation in a few days. If we fail, not sure what I will do yet. As for the reflux, it is mostly under control. We started to see a doc that Joel recommended at Georgetown Univ in Washington DC. I just LOVE them so much. I have actually been able to cut down Elana’s nexium dose in the last couple of weeks. We have added a naturopath to the list of docs we see(ped, allergist, and GI). The naturopath has put her on some digestive enzymes and a few other supplements. Within 2 weeks of starting that, we were able to cut back on nexium by 2/3. Still can’t get her off the last little bit of nexium, but we are working on it. May try again in a few months and see what happens. But right now, we focus each day on trying to get her to eat and drink as many calories as we can.

Get me up to date on you! Nice to “see” a familiar face!!!

Sure, I will repost in the future if I don’t find a “home” for them.

I don’t mind sharing the info about the supplements. I hope it is OK to do this. Since they are not considered a pharmaceutical drug. If I am breaking some rules here, please someone let me know. And I want to preface this info by saying that we could not have made it this far without a PPI…. It truly saved us and got us to where we are today!

Now every child is different, and I don’t know if what my dd is taking would work for your child. She is on a potent acidophilis, chewable digestive enzymes (containing papaya, protease, bromelain, amylase, cellulase enzyme, papain, lipase, and chlorophyll), liquid detox, swedish bitters to help increase HCL production, and just started salmon oil, but I don’t think that is for reflux, I think it is for another issue the doc is addressing. Outside of the “tradional medical community”, reflux is often thought to occur because the stomach does not have enough HCL to break down the foods. So the foods just churn around and come back up. I have always had reflux, and have started a similar regimine of supplements myself. I have come off the nexium cold turkey and in the last 6 weeks, have had a mild stomach pain only twice. I have changed NOTHING else other than taking the supplements, including HCL (hydrochloric acid).

If you are going to take the route of a naturopath, it is extremely helpful to have one that is well known and respected in the communtity (as with traditional docs). If you want to give it another try, I would ask for referrals, or go to a few health food stores in your area and inquire about who they know of. I called my guy on the phone first, and spoke directly with him, and loved him before I even met him.

Good luck!