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August 17, 2012 at 2:22 pm #70785

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Until my DS’s GI appointment! With teething and introduction of solids his reflux is worse then ever!! He is prescribed Zantac 15mg with 1ml every 6 hours. So in total that is 4ml per day. That dosage does nothing. I was thinking of doubling it and giving 2x a day. Same dosage, but less times given. Then I would add the 2.5ml of MCS both of those times too. You think this is a realistic option until he sees the GI on the 30th?! Help!

August 17, 2012 at 3:01 pm #70787

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I don’t have access to all my links at the moment – but in the Medicines Forum is a link to Prevacid 101 and I know there’s a link there, in the Prevacid 101 post, that gives you the info about zantac dosing.

basically, it’s 10mgs per kilo.

so you find your baby’s weight in kilos.

you take baby’s weight in kilos and multiply it by 10.

this gets you the total mgs per day of zantac.

your bottle says 15mgs/ml

so you then divide the total mgs per day by 15 and the result is the #of mls per day

August 17, 2012 at 3:26 pm #70789

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So according to my calculations it would be 7.25ml a day! So I could even do 3 2.5ml a day with 2.5ml of Mylanta Cheery Supreme! I think I will do that until his appointment. And no more solids!! Haha!! Stressing me out! Thanks so much for your help 🙂

August 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm #70791

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I can help you calculate, too

so glad to help!

August 17, 2012 at 5:45 pm #70792

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hellbennt wrote: I can help you calculate, too

so glad to help!

My DS is 24 pounds! Let me know if you come up with the same calculations 🙂

August 17, 2012 at 8:41 pm #70793

hellbennt
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Zantac dosing– my/other’s question (has axid & pepcid doses, too):

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8288&PN=1

24lbs = 11 kilos

11 x 10 = 110

110 divided by 15 = 7.3

that’s 7.3 mls, total for the day of zantac

doses can be divided ‘unevenly’ & given in 2 or 3 doses
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