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October 19, 2007 at 6:47 am #44467
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InactiveOur daughter is 11 weeks old She was diagnosed with reflux at 3 weeks, and we have been trying to figure out how to best manage with meds since. Her regular doc initially prescribed Zantac, which not only didn’t help, but made her pretty agitated. She’s now seeing a specialist, and on Prevacid. Her original dose of Prevacid, 7.5 mg solutab once a day wasn’t cutting it, so 2 days ago that was increased to 7.5 twice a day. It was a struggle getting there, but I was so hopeful we’d finally gotten that for her. But she hasn’t been able to sleep at night since, and is only pooping once a day, where she used to poop at least 4 times a day. She is breastfed.
Anyone experience similar side effects from Prevacid? I just don’t know how to help her. everything we try seems to cause additional problems.October 19, 2007 at 4:26 pm #44483hellbennt
KeymasterOctober 22, 2007 at 4:40 pm #44597Anonymous
InactiveHi!
We’ve had a very similar experience…our primary care physician gave us the Zantac and it worked for a month or so and then stopped. That’s when we were referred to the GI specialist. She reluctantly gave us a prescription for Prevacid. My DD was taking 7.5mg of the Solutabs in the morning only. We went back to the doc after two weeks and I told her that it seemed like the medicine only worked for part of the day so she told me to change the time of day I gave it to her. So I did that for about two days and then just increased her dosage on my own. I now give her 7.5 in the morning and 7.5 in the evening. I figure I’ll fight with the doc at our next appointment about a new prescription since I will have exhausted our 2 month supply in one month!! But I have a happy baby now!!
However, I have also noticed a BIG decrease in poop!! I’m also breastfeeding so I know that you’re used to getting poop everytime you feed her right?? Who would have ever thought less poop would be a bad thing?? Anyway, from what I understand, it’s ok for them to not poop everyday as long as they aren’t uncomfortable in the in-between times or as long as they aren’t struggling to poop. As far as the not sleeping…we went through a week or so of that at the beginning of this month but once I increased her dosage that stopped so I’m not sure why your LO is still having that problem.
October 22, 2007 at 4:58 pm #44600Anonymous
InactiveHi,
We also had problems with Prevacid solutabs. I think it’s becuase it has some lactose and aspartam in the tabs. We use it for three weeks and decided to switch to losec as per Marci-Kids. -
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