Pepcid Complete with Prevacid?

I know what you are going through. I just checked the marci-kids website and she can have 7.5 mg three times a day. I do not know if your doc will prescribe that. Maybe the 15mg in am and 7.5 mg in pm. I never used the Pepcid complete. I know alot of the moms here use Mylanta Cherry Supreme, they say not within 4 hrs of the Prevacid.

I don’t think you can spoil a 6 week old, so hold away! If that helps, that is what you do.

Of course! You just need to space out the zantac from the prevacid. I know Laura’s intro discusses it, but I think it has to be at least 3 or 4? hours apart? Can’t remember exactly….. I also used Mylanta cherry supreme as needed. I think at that age, I only did one or two mls up to 6 times a day. Nutramigen can work just fine, but if that is still the issue you can go to Neocate which contains no milk proteins at all. (the nutramigen contains broken down proteins, but some babies can still detect it). I wouldn’t change formula yet as if you do too many changes, it is hard to tell what is and isn’t working.

We use the Pepcid complete (berry flavored). You will need a pill cutter (I assume you already have one for Prevacid).

I never dosed the prescription meds on my own as then I would have run out before I was due for a refill….. The non prescription meds, I ran by my doctor just so they know what I am doing. We have always had good relationships with our doctors, though. I think that is key! It sounds like your doctor will be willing to work with you, so you should be open with what you are doing….

The swallow test that you are doing is probably the upper gi, not a swallow study. If it is an upper gi, they do strap the baby to the board, so they can’t move and they just feed a bottle of barium and watch on the xray screen to see if there are any abnormalities. Sometimes the test shows reflux and sometimes it doesn’t but if it doesn’t, that doesn’t mean your child doesn’t have reflux, they just may not have refluxed at that point in time. the prevacid will not affect the results of the test. Some babies have a hard time passing the barium and they become a bit constipated after, but that’s it. It is a pretty quick test as well. The hardest part is holding them off of food before the test so they are hungry enough to take the barium.