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hi & welcome!
please check dose at http://www.marci-kids.com/dosing.html
to see if it’s proper (most likely it is, or, it can go up to about 22mgs a day- this is off the top of my head, so don’t quote me, please refer to marci-kids- they are out of the U of Missouri and are at the FOREFRONT of research in this area!)
you’ll need to know Jackson’s weight in kilos, you can check here:
http://www.sfca.co.uk/match/kilolbs.htmok so it looks like I’m figuring it out for you
he’s 5.2 kilosaccording to marci-kids:
Pediatric Dosing for Lansoprazole (Prevacid®)Dosing dependent on age & weight
Age Dose per day (mg/kg/dose) < 3 months 1.5 to 1.75 mg/kg three times per day 3-6 months 1.25 to 1.5 mg/kg three times per day 7 months to 2 years 1 to 1.25 mg/kg three times per day > 2 years 1 mg/kg two or three times per day > 5 years 0.75 to 1 mg/kg two times per day
ok so he’s less than 3 months. it’s 1.75mg/kilo 3 x a day
so he’s 5.2 kilos.
1.75 x 5.2 = 9.1mgs
so you’d give 9.1mgs 3 times a day
right now you’re giving 15, so you could increase to
9.1 x 3 = 27.3mgs a daynext you need to make sure it’s a proper FORM.
is it solutabs? if it is, you need to give on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later.
as for the maalox, it’s ‘ok’ but most on this forum try to find mylanta or a generic mylanta w/o any aluminum- look at the ingredients in the maalox- it has aluminum, right? it’s not going to harm him but to be safe…you might want to find mylanta cherry supreme or a store brand/generic equivalent (like CVS brand) that doesn’t have any aluminum in it…you need to space the maalox/mylanta 4 hrs from the prevacid.
Please take a look here, at Prevacid 101, last post on the page:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&PN=0&TPN=1once you get the meds right, you may wind up re-visiting the whole formula situation (unless proper meds do the trick)- you need to give every change a good 2 weeks, including when you switch formulas…
for a ‘quick’ fix, while you work on getting the prevacid right, I would
also add in the zantac, if you have any left.
make sure to give zantac 4hrs from the prevacid. you CAN give zantac w/ the maalox/mylanta but you canNOT give the maalox and/or zantac with the prevacid.
here’s zantac dose (don’t just take my word on it – read here!
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8288&PN=1)
your bottle says 16mg/ml
so:
5.2kilos x 10 = 52mgs of zantac for the day
to find the dose in mls, you need to divide by 15
so 52 divided by 15 = 3.5mls of zantac a day
you can divide that into 2 doses however you ‘need’ to
so if night is fine and morning is terrible, give 2mls in the am and 1.5 in the pmyou could do:
prevacid first thing in a.m.
4hrs later zantac
4hrs later prevacid
zantac again if needed
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