HATES ALL MEDS!!

I would be cautious of prilosec that is compounded with flavouring. The flavouring will degrade the drug in less than a week. Unflavoured compounds are an option, but they also taste terrible.

ARGGGI know exactly what you mean. My son HATES every medicine I have ever tried to give him. He gags, spits, chokes, and even has apirated some in attempting to not swallow his medicine. Fortunately, as much as he hates everthing else (tylenol, motrin, benadryl, cough medicine, and Zegerid), he doesn’t mind the Prevacid Solutabs. They are pretty tasty and you only need a tiny bit of water to dissolve them so the amount you administer is tiny (about 2mls.). Can you ask you doctor to let him try the Solutabs?

Also, a trick I’ve learned when giving him the stuff he hates is to mix the medicine with a tiny bit of baby cereal to make it thick. It’s harder for them to spit it out when it’s thicker. He’ll sometimes take it from a spoon this way, but if not, I do what Patty M says and shoot it with a syringe towards the inside of the cheek in the back of the mouth. Also, this helps alot, I pull the syringe out only partly because if you leave the syringe in the mouth, it makes it much harder for him to spit anything out. Another trick is to sing, or shake a toy or something to give him a little distraction just as you squirt the medicine in. This helps with my little guy sometimes.

If none of that works, I’d try the solutabs. They’re tasy and easy to administer. I wanted to switch my son to Zegerid because you can give it anytime instead of the 2 hrs. after/30 minutes before rule, but he simply hates it and it’s so much easier to give him something he doesn’t fight.

How long have you been giving meds via syringe? It took over two weeks for Lucas to get to where he could tolerage meds from a syringe and then everytime we introduced a new med, it was difficult again for a short while (except for with ZEgerid, he was confused about it for about two days, but loved the taste).

I did a lot of singing, propped him up in the bouncey on on pillows, and had to hold his chin and mouth closed and sometimes blow on his nose to get him to swallow. The first nurse who talked to me after a disasterout first dose of zantac waaaaaay back was like, “honey, he’s going to hate it, so you’ve got to hold his little chin and mouth shut after you administer it into the side of his cheek and help to force him to swallow” she was the no-nonsense type, but her advice worked.

It can take a ppi drug fully 14 days to begin working, so if you haven’t had him on that for 14 days, it could be he’s not getting relief yet. Also, the symptoms you describe sound like classic reflux, coughing etc. and until he feels better, he will continue to act that way. Bmilk has natural antacid properties and is easier on their tummies than anything else, not to mention the comfort factor, so that is why he will tolerate the bmilk the best. Keep at it, getting the proper doses of meds into them is VERY important.

compounded prevacid CAN be a problem, but it isn’t a problem for everyone. This is an advantage of using the prevacid solutabs or Zegerid. Both of the mothers above are right, but its good to know that it can be an issue. We had the same problem where the compounded prevacid wasn’t stable and our baby backslid a LOT on the compounded prevacid. You don’t want to be playing guessing games while your baby is miserable. HTH!