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Hi there.. hoping someone can shed some insight for me. My son (3 mons) has reflux, diagnosed at about 9 weeks. We noticed something was off right away but our ped brushed it off as “just colic”. Luckily we were seen in the ER and referred to another ped who diagnosed him. Since then we have tried Zantac (did NOTHING) and have moved on to prevacid fast tab (he gets about 12 mg out of the 15 mg tab) and recently we have added domperidone 1 and 1/2 tsp x3 daily.
My question is how long do infants generally stay on these meds, are there side effects that might last long term, is it safe for infants to be on long term?? I am not finding this info and our ped is not really into talking.. he just prescribes which is frustrating. Also, because of the growth, shouldn’t the doses be increased? My dr continues to say no….
My son seems to be very big for 3 months (almost 16 pds and 26 inches long!) I understand the dom can make infants hungry… he is on a 4 hour eating schedule during the day and will give me at least 1 stretch of 5 hours at night, occasionally 6 hours…i am concerned he is gaining too quickly.
He seems to be doing better, he still vomits if he is moved at all after eating (God forbid put on his back!!) He seems to not be in so much pain which is fabulous…. i am just wondering about a future plan for this regarding the meds… anyone have any insight… ?? thanks in advance!
Melinda
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…the key to
all of this is RESEARCH and, of course, support!I have a LOT TO SAY! and most of
it is here:Groupie Intro: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=853
yes the meds are weight sensitive, so yes the dose needs to be increased as he gains weight…<!–
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please visit
http://www.marci-kids.com/dosing.html as they are w/ the U of Missouri & are at the forefront of research of PPIs and infants…
and, also please review Prevacid 101, last post on the page:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&PN=0&TPN=1I know nothing about domperidone, I’m sorry, you can do a search though:
upper right-hand corner of the screen/pagefrom right side, choose 6 months and OLDER
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does this last? As a 1rst question:https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3541&PN=1&TPN=1
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