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March 26, 2006 at 8:34 pm #4681

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When does reflux generally get better? I thought ds would be better by now at 6 months but it seems as if he is getting worse.

March 26, 2006 at 8:46 pm #4683

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For us it was 7 months when Tyler could crawl and sit up. He was alot happier in the day, but the nights are still a problem. For us, the right diet and medication really helped.

March 26, 2006 at 10:09 pm #4688

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7 months for us too, now that she can crawl and sit up, its like the muscles are developing. Things are definately more “normal” but the routine is still strict and time consuming. Like Amber said, meds and diet play a key role, and night time can be a problem. Maybe the PPI dose needs to be adjusted since baby is 6 months and weights more? We are on 30 mgs of prevacid split 3x a day, and it makes a huge difference. At the 6 month mark things were getting pretty bad. Hang in there!

March 27, 2006 at 8:29 am #4697

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At 6 months Isaac was not doing well either. We just had to find the right medicine for him and the right formula. We are being told this will continue until he is around 12-18 months old. I hope that your son is feeling better soon!

March 27, 2006 at 9:10 am #4710

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For Hailey, clear improvement came at 9-10 months and kept getting better and better from then on.

It was at 6 months that we got a lot of changes in place too (meds, positioning, the right formula, etc) and it was a really rough time.

March 27, 2006 at 10:08 am #4715

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Ellie (my middle child) got much better at 8 months and reflux seemed like a thing of the past by 9 months.

Myles is 6 months old now. He’s better being on the right medication and dose (Prevacid 10mg 3X’s per day – he’s 18 lbs.), but he’s not over his reflux yet. I’m hoping it will be very soon, as I’m sure you are.

If he’s getting worse he may not be getting the right dose of PPI. What is he taking and how much?

March 27, 2006 at 10:46 am #4719

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Thanks ladies. My ds is about 18-19 pounds and is currently getting 7.5mg of prevacid a day. It was working terrific up until about a week ago. It seems like he is on a very low dose so maybe all we need to do is up the dosage a bit. We are going in this afternoon to see his doc and hopefully they will up it. I just thought that at 6 mths it was supposed to get better not worst so that has definitely taken me by surprise.

March 27, 2006 at 11:51 am #4723

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Here’s a link to check on PPI dosing. You may want to print out the information and take it with you to your doctor’s appt. My doctor wouldn’t up my son’s dose until she saw the research information about PPI dosing in infants.

Infants metabloize the drug 3 times faster than adults, so they actually need a higher dose than an adult and it should be given three times per day. Many or most doctors are not aware of this and they routinely prescribe dosages which are way too low.

My son is 18 lbs and gets 10mg/3 times per day. Once he was on the right dose he got much better! I hope your little guy does too!

Here’s the link. http://www.marci-kids.com/

March 27, 2006 at 1:09 pm #4735

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Michael definitely improved after 6 months when he started crawling and sitting up. He was able to distract himself more during the day with play and his big sister.

March 27, 2006 at 8:00 pm #4766

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as we kept getting the meds ‘right’ jonah kept doing better…from 4-6 months he was on his way to being a happier baby and by 9 months we tried to get him off of the meds (started weaning off of med process) & it was too soon, but he was ready and off meds by 12months (still occasionally refluxing, but zantac, mylanta & tums- he had teeth early – helped w/ sporadic ‘attacks’)

HTH

~laura

March 28, 2006 at 1:46 am #4783

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A phrase I read in Dr. Sears’ book is that babies often “walk away from reflux” meaning, once they can walk, the reflux is usually gone. This is generally true, but also I think the more time they spend upright, the better it gets. So even sitting up, standing, cruising, and the learning to walk process is good for that. If you have additional gi issues, it could be a longer haul: MSPI, food allergies, multiple protein intolerances, hiatal hernias…..all of these things can cause the problems to last beyond the walking.

We are still facing a lot of sleeping issues, for us, spitting up was pretty much gone by 12 mos, and happy daytimes were around from about 10 months on. Sleeping has been our true painful battle, but we are dealing with hiatal hernia and multiple protein intolerances or possibly multiple allergies, MSPI, etc. Around 6 mos we had just gotten in with a ped gi and were playing with meds and doses nad it was a rough horrible time. ARound 6 mos also for us, things went downhill dramatically, I think because all the acid damage to his esophagus finally caught up with us. It took a long while to get things balanced out again. I hope you are on the way to improvement, soon!!

March 28, 2006 at 11:06 am #4809

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Well, we saw the doc yesterday and she doesn’t feel comfortable upping his meds so she said to try thickening his bottles. Well, the problem is that he is pushing away every bottle that I go near him with. He is eating his solids Ok so she said to continue that. he also has a cold and is spitting up a bunch of mucus which I think is also an issue. He did sleep great last night on his belly but has only taken 6 ounces of formula from a bottle so far.

March 28, 2006 at 3:00 pm #4831

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mucousy spit ups are a big indicator of MSPI- milk and soy protein intolerances. My son had VERY mucousy spit ups but I did not realize the link to MSPI until he was eight months old. Removing dairy and soy from my (I was nursing) and his diets made a HUGE difference.

Here’s a great link to read about MSPI:

http://www.disa.com.au/

March 28, 2006 at 7:05 pm #4849

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regarding the difference b/t allergy & intolerance web site that gives the best explanation of food allergies/intolerance and its relation to reflux that I have found to date. http://www.disa.com.au/ go on the left to the menu & click on “Food Intolerant Allergic Baby”

here’s more to read: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
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