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. 1) aluminum is a metal and most people don’t want to give it to their babies 2) it’s hard to find a variety of liquid antacid without aluminum, but you can find store brand equivalents try: rite-aid, cvs brand, walmart, target, Bartell Drug (West coast), Dollar General, meijer, etc- just look for one that does not list aluminum in the ingredients.3) you don’t use the tablet. just the beads.The little tablet inside the capsule can be discarded (it is there because Prilosec OTC is omeprazole magnesium), instead of plain omeprazole – (Prilosec prescription is plain omeprazole). So in order for the omeprazole OTC products to get FDA approval, they had to add a small amount of magnesium, so it would have some magnesium in it. The magnesium does not do anything, hence the little tablet can be thrown away.I’m fairly sure it’s safe, but again, most people just throw it away and use the beads. I’m not sure you crush the beads, either. I think they dissolve on their own…I think if you crush the beads the taste will be horrible…4. dosing chart:for your baby it’s 1.5mgs/kg three times a dayso 3.7 kilos x 1.5 = 5.55mgs (this is one dose)5.55 x 3 = 16.65mgs a day, total for the daythe mixture you make makes a concentration of 2 mg/ml and 3.5mL is the minimum volume to give each dose.so a dose of 3.5ml has 7mgs of meds in itso you might want to give three doses of 7mgs – this is 21mgs a day, which is higher than the 16.65mgs…you can start here and see if it helps…?or, you can give two doses a day and that comes to 14mgs a day, which is less than the 16.65mgs a day…I think I’d try the three times a day and then if it’s working try backing down to the two times a day (perhaps giving zantac for the third dose? do you have any? that’s a fairly ‘easy’ rx to get…) actually, you might want to be giving zantac all along during this time!make sure to space it 4hrs from the zegerid/prilosec…for zantac you’d give10mgs per kilo is highest doseso 10 x 3.7 – 37mgs total for the dayyour bottle of liquid zantac says 15mgs/ml
this means that for every 1ml of liquid you give, there’s 15mgs of the medicine zantac in that 1ml of liquid
so 37 divided by 15 = 2.5mls a day
divide this however you want, two or three times a day- the doses don’t have to be ‘even’ –
In the meantime, I’d look into buying one of the ‘new’ productshellbennt 2012-04-08 10:39:52
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