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[Anonymous]

Hi Shelby. I haven’t been around much lately but I saw your post and wanted to say “hi.” I’ve been having some issues with Myles lately that make me suspect that he is having a reflux flare as well. He began waking several times a night about 6 weeks ago. He’s been sick twice in that 6 week period but he has been fine for a few weeks now but still is waking at night and in the wee hours of the morning like he used to. During the day he frequently says, “tummy hurts” but he points to his chest and he often says “uckies in mouth” when I go to him at night. He’s drinking water like it’s going out of style. I finally began putting 2 and 2 together and thinking reflux…..

So I think I’ll try Pepcid Complete for a while and see if he sleeps better and stops complaining about his tummy hurting and “uckies” in his mouth. I remember Dr. Phillips said an infant can have 1/2 a tablet, so that’s what I will try. I gave him 1/2 a tablet last night and he did sleep better, waking only once briefly at 3:45. I do have some Prevacid left from his infancy but I hate to use it because of the empty stomach followed by a meal thing…

I’m not sure if Zyrtec works for milk allergy or not. It does cause sleepiness though.

Anyway, I hope you find the answer for Justice. He sure is cute! Are you still breastfeeding him? If so, WOW!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am thinking that my DS has a MPI, I don’t know if it is soy yet. He is 8 weeks old ans has relux and real bad colic type symptoms. He is taking zantac 1.6 mL BID. He was spitting up alot (2-3 times pre feeding) and it was usually really mucousy. His poop is stringy, and generally fussy when nursing and after. He has not been a good sleepr recently either. He would arch and wiggle and pull off and on the breast….BUT in the last few days he seems to be doing better. Less spit-up less fussyness. I have really cut out dairy (except I did have cream in my coffee yesterday) for about 1 week or so. Do you think that that may have been the problem? I do “hear” him reflux though but he isn’t fussy when it happens though. He does seem like a different baby in the last few days…..

Keeping my fingers crossed….

Just a side note….in the evening his eyes get really red and puffy and watery? Any thoughts on that….could it be related to the MPI?

[hellbennt]

the foamy has me thinking OAL. I would read up about it and see what you think/feel. scroll down to the 4th post by Bensmama & read

this to see what you think:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9959

you could even call la leche and ask about it:

The La Leche League Breastfeeding Helpline – US began on June 1, 2007. Everyone in the U.S.A. will have access to toll free breastfeeding help 24 hours a day. Just call 1-877-4-LALECHE (1-877-452 5324).

OAL :http://www.users.qwest.net/~fsdebra1/refluxoal.html

OAL:Gaining, Gulping, and Grimacing?
http://www.wiessinger.baka.com/bfing/trouble/gulping.html

this is an excellent resource: http://www.kellymom.com/

[Anonymous]

My son was born 4 weeks early. He is now 3 weeks old. He was having what I thought was major gas pains. I took him to the doc and she changed his formula (breastfeeding and suplementing formula once a day) to a soy based. She also put him on zantac. He is now showing signs of silent reflux and screams in pain. He only stops when he has a bottle in his mouth or I am breastfeeding. He could eat every 30 mins.

Is this normal? How long does it take for Zantac to work? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. I am so upset that he is in pain it breaks my heart.

Thanks for listening.

[Anonymous]

Any ideas or input is helpful

1) My DD is on three Reflux meds and 1 antibuitoc right now.

Zantac 3x a day (.7ml)

Prilosec 2x a day (3ml)

Reglan 3x a day (.5ml) 30 mins BEFORE feeding..

and Augmentin 2.5ml with nursing 2x a day, the she goes to Bactrim one time a day for a maintenance dose

issue one: the prilosec is flavored at Target… which i found out now makes it no good after 2 weeks. If its not flavored, she gags and pukes it up.

What meds work ok together, shoudlt’ be given together, etc?

She is 4 months, breastfed, and weighs 11lbs

[hellbennt]

my guess is milk and/soy intolerance? or something you’re eating if you’re breastfeeding or the formula, etc

but that’s a guess…

can you put info in your signature- go to the top of the page to ‘settings’ then to ‘profile’ just so I can keep track– like if you’re on the TED or waht formula, baby’s meds & doses – what’s zantac total for the day- BID gets me confused…

[hellbennt]

mybuttercup wrote: His poops are back to normal yellow color.

So it sounds like the TED is helping a bit??? His stools are ‘back’ to normal. What were they like before? [/QUOTE]

mybuttercup wrote: I am not seeing any improvments in my son’s fussiness, gassiness and all the stuff he was doing before I went on TED.

well, the TED might not help this. This is where medication can come into play….

mybuttercup wrote: How long does it take to se any results on TED.

it can take a full 2 weeks, possibly 3 weeks but if you’re not seeing major effects by 2 weeks, then I would just do 2 weeks. HOWEVER, you say that his stools are back to normal, so I would not add milk or soy back to your diet because once you add them back in it’ll take another 2 weeks (or 3) to get the proteins back out of your system if you see that adding them back in made the stools not normal.

mybuttercup wrote: my son is on 15mg prevacid solutab. He would have been on it two weeks this coming Friday. We give him one dose at night on an empty stomach.

are you following it by a meal 30 minutes later?

also, I’ve said it before: I would give TWO doses- babies have very fast metabolisms, so the one dose zooms through his system and does not carry through for a full 24 hours, like it would w/ an adult.

mybuttercup wrote: His pediatrician wants me to put him on alimentum for two weeks and see what happens but I haven’t given up on breastfeeding yet.

your milk IS alimentum. in fact, your milk is like NEOCATE (at the end of 2 weeks of no milk or soy, not even hidden milk or soy) because you have no milk or soy proteins in your milk. So why try alimentum if alimentum HAS MILK PROTEINS and (soon) your milk (will) does not.

mybuttercup wrote: He seems to have pain when he tries to poop. He is also very gassy. He arches, extends his body, grunts and seems extremely uncomfortable when he is eating or trying to poop.

you say his stools are normal. so he’s not constipated or having loose stools. they are mustardy, seedy, almost pastey, sometimes more watery than others, normal breastfed baby stools. maybe some mylanta cherry supreme can help with the fussiness- try giving some right before feeding…

HANG IN THERE!!!!

[Anonymous]

I have been on TED since Friday. I feel like I am starving. I try to eat a lot but still feel hungry. I am not seeing any improvments in my son’t fussiness, gassiness and all the stuff he was doing before I went on TED. I had cut out dairy almost a week before I started TED.

How long does it take to se any results on TED. For reference my son is on 15mg prevacid solutab. He would have been on it two weeks this coming Friday. We give him one dose at night on an empty stomach. He weighs about 10lbs. He seems to have pain when he tries to poop. He is also very gassy. He arches, extends his body, grunts and seems extremely uncomfortable when he is eating or trying to poop. His pediatrician wants me to put him on alimentum for two weeks and see what happens but I haven’t given up on breastfeeding yet.

His poops are back to normal yellow color.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for posting this!!! I STILL feel badly that I did not bf Dagney. She was doing great from the moment she was born breastfeeding, she latched on right away in the recovery room and went to town. I, however, never got any help from the lactation consultants, and then had some other complications with my incision, so I scrapped the whole thing very early on. I told myself that formula was fine–which it is, but the formulas she was on for the first 4 months WERE NOT fine for her–she wasn’t fine until we got her on the Neocate at 3 1/2 months, and even then it took a long time for her to get better. Little did I know that if I were breast feeding, it could have helped the reflux–and my hormones!– tremendously. Now I know for next time, if I do have a refluxer again I’ll be better prepared and I know I’ll have you ladies on this board for support as well!

[hellbennt]

erg. I had a long response that disappeared.

ok, here goes as best as I can, fast, lol

1) I don’t like your doctor- this sounds blunt- but really HE should try pumping! anyway you are making your milk to be equivalent to alumentum so personally i would just forget going to formula & keep on making your milk free of milk & soy proteins. actually alimentum HAS milk proteins, it’s just very very broken down. so, your milk will be FREE of milk & soy- harumph to you great doctor!!!

(if I am offending you I am so so sorry! I’m just going off bcse that’s why I’m still here- to help people whose doctors tell them things that there are other solutions to)

2) even if there was blood in the stool, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t be ‘solved’ while you are breastfeeding. no blood does not equal to no MSPI. congrats on no blood! are you seeing any difference in baby’s stools now that you’re on day 7 of the TED?

3) there is a difference b/t allergy & intolerance- go to the ‘main’ mspi forum- click on MSPI & allergy info’ and then go to page 2 to read an EXCELLENT article that tells the difference b/t the 2. thre’s a list of symptoms, etc- this should really help you a lot

4) also from the ‘main’ MSPI page is a link to look for called ‘Misconceptions about elemental formulas’ this will also helo you a lot

5) because rice binds you doens’t mean it’s going to bind the baby, meaning that the poop issue might be MSPI- it can be a symptom, you’re right- refer to article I mentioned about allergies/intolerances- anyway it might be the rice, but it would be rice ‘protein’ that is affecting baby, not the fiber, etc that affects you as you eat it…so, if at the end of the TED you still think its something in your diet, then I would say to cut out the rice- there have definitely been mamas who noticed their los reacted to the rice they ate

6)

1) what is the biological/physical/scientific explanation for the
> connection between food
> allergies and reflux?

The body has difficulty digesting or tolerating the food for whatever
reason, so it is essentially treated the same way the body would treat
a non-food substance or poison – back up the way it came so that it
can’t affect the rest of the digestive system.

> 2) what’s the connection between gas and reflux?

Gas is created when something isn’t digested properly; for example,
beans are generally harder to digest than other foods, which is why
they are notorious for causing gas in most people (they are generally
not a common problem with breastfed babies through mom’s milk, though;
this is just a common example to help make sense.)

Also, gas puts pressure on the esophageal sphincter (the muscle at the
top of the stomach that helps move and keep things down), making it
easier for whatever is in the stomach to be refluxed.

7) I would really try to figure out how to split that prevacid up into 2 doses- a pill cutter or just take the crumbled powder mess and divide it up, it doesn’t have to be exactly equal in fact I always gave a higher portion of the day’s dose at night so I could get baby to sleeeep

8) it takes a good 2 weeks so you’re halfway there! keep going mama!

[Anonymous]

Here is my last post, this question I have is in addition…

My introduction post has all the details… but here is short version.

At 13 days my son quit breathing long enough to begin to turn “dusky” in his face. This was almost 2 weeks ago. We were in the hospital for 5 days. They ran TONS of tests and all they found was severe reflux/ GERD. He had 6 apnea episodes in the hospital. We were sent home last Sunday on an apnea monitor. We went 9 days without an apnea episode. Well, night before last he had and episode, another yesteray, and now one this morning. My question is this… all of the episodes aside from the one this morning happened shortly after he ate. The one this morning was 3 hours after he ate. Can that still be attributed to the GERD? Can anyone else who has dealt with apnea PLEASE share your experiences with me. My baby will be 4 weeks old on Thursday. He is on Prevacid and Reglan. I know I am probably in for a long struggle, but these episodes have me scared to death. He seems to me and everyone else to be healthy otherwise… Please help…

Here is my addition: I take valtrex and zyrtec everyday and have been told they are safe for breastfeeding. Do you think they could be causing or making his reflux worse??

Thanks SO much…

[Anonymous]

My son is on prevacid and that seemed to have helped with the crying and fussing after feedings. He is breastfed and I am on the TED diet. I am on day 7 of this diet. But we are still dealing with extreme fussiness and gas. He looks like he is in so much pain when he is pooping. He arches and is contantly grunting. We send his stool samples to be analyzed but haven’t received the results yet.

The doctor suggested that we switch him to Alimentum and give it about 2 weeks to owrk. Meanwhile he wants me to keep pumping in case my son doesn’t really have MSPI and he can go back to breast milk.

I also noticed that Gavin is constipated today. He is trying so hard to poop. Could it be all the rice I have been eating on the TED diet.

Thanks

[hellbennt]

well, the TED isn’t meant for longterm use, it’s meant more as a diagnostic tool if you were- it’s ‘just’ 2 (or 3) weeks. personally, I don’t think I even lost any weight! that’s me though, I breastfed both babies & wasn’t one of the mamas who lost (significant) weight by breastfeeding. I mean I didn’t gain weight & I did slowly lose weight until I weaned (at 15 months for both boys), but I’m more of the type of breastfeeding mama who is STARVING & so then I just take that as a sign to pig out, LOL!!!

so anyway I’ve never heard of ketones or releasing toxins…I just was desperate, read about the Dr. Sears Elimination Diet and I just did it…I was at my wit’s end, truly. I also really didn’t feel in my heart of hearts that my baby was MSPI but like i said, I was desperate & wanted to try whatever I could to make my poor shrieking, howling baby feel better. so in my case, it was a good thing for me because I then knew my baby was not MSPI and I also then knew that there were foods that I ate that affected him & I avoided those foods after that…

there are women who find vitamins & supplements to take while doing the TED, like calcium & a multi-vitamin, that are ‘free’ of everything- milk, soy, gluten, etc…I didn’t do that, I guess I figured it was ‘only’ 2 weeks, but again I just jumped on board w/o thinking that much…if I HAD thought about it I would have researched more, like you are but also it was 4 & 1/2 years ago & I didn’t have much to go on, LOL.

ok I rambled on way too much & didn’t answer your question

i hope I helped in some way, though!

~laura

[Anonymous]

Hi Li-

I am sorry you are having such a rough time right now. I’ve been there too. When Brian was abour 2 mos old and about 12 lbs, the GI increased him to 22.5 mg Prevacid (7.5 in am and 15 mg in pm) and that helped initially. Then we had problems again with feeding and sleeping (he was 100% formula fed at that point; up until then I had been bf’ing and suppl with formula but then my supply went way downhill) so the GI put him on Carafate in addition to the Prevacid. Carafate is a med that coats and soothes the esophagus. It is like a super mylanta. You can ask your GI about it. In the meantime, you can use Mylanta Supreme Cherry (don’t use regular Mylanta) to help with breakthrough acid pain. I used to give 1ml 15 minutes before the feedings where he didn’t get Prevacid and I would also give 1 ml before bedtime. Are you keeping him elevated in the crib? We used the Tucker sling (http://www.tuckersling.com) and elevated the mattress using 2 pillows under it. I do know that some bf babies prefer the breast over bottle and will refuse bottles at daycare and then be up nursing alot at night. If I were you, I would hold off on weaning until you can get his pain under control. Good luck and hang in there. Keep us posted.

[Anonymous]

into your breastmilk? from loosing weight, or from ketones