Prevacid Solutabs

Hi I just wanted to let everyone know that my dd just had a horrible experience with Prevacid Solutabs. All 3 of my kids have been MSPI and have had physical reflux symptoms as well just due to an all around immature digestive system I think (they puke easily, and cry with “heartburn” pain but after a PPI starts working and they are on Neocate exclusively they are fine). My dd is 3 weeks old.

6 days ago we tried the solutabs or “fastabs” as they are known in Canada.

She almost immediately started refluxing and choking it back down excessively. I was scared, and after 3 kids like this, that says a lot. The crying started and didn’t stop. She vomited about 5 times in the course of a few hours and continued to cry and reflux, choking and coughing for about 6 hours in total. The only sleep she or I got was with her lying on my chest and whimpering. I was afraid that she would stop breathing because she kept choking on her reflux so badly.

I know it was definitely the solutab that did it because she is on Neocate and absolutely nothing else because of the MSPI.

By morning she was so exhausted and so was I. When I asked the pharmacist about that prescription she said that the product only contained “lactose” and that I shouldn’t be worried that my daughter

would react.

I never gave dd another dose and I ordered Caracream to put the Prevacid capsules in the next day. While I waited for the Caracream I gave her a few doses of Mylanta Cherry Supreme that helped a little. The tell tale sign for me came the next evening she had broken out with an itchy scaly eczema rash on her eyebrows and forehead so I know she definitley had a reaction.

She has been on Prevecid/Caracream now for 2 days and is doing awesome. The rash is almost gone, it just sort of “peeled off” in the tub this morning with healthy skin underneath. My other 2 kids had the exact same rash while they were transitioning to the Neocate and the same way hers peeled off, so did theirs.

There just has to be milk proteins in the solutabs!!! Does anyone know?

Would a lactose intolerance cause this? Our doctor says no because lactose intolerance doesn’t cause a rash. I’m confused about the whole thing but at least now we know not to use them.

I just thought hearing about our bad experience might help somebody else.