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Lori,
He said because Jackson only has a mild to moderate case, he thinks it should be better by 5-6 months. Jackson has never projectile vomitted, which apparently he thinks is a key sign/symptom of severity. Thickened feedings and sitting him upright keep him from spitting anything up and I guess he goes by this as a severity gauge too. Also, because the 18mg of Prevacid a day has taken care of the reflux for right now….Jackson’s on the lower end of the dosage scale (he should be on 21-27mg). He says he always sees the reflux peak about 3-4 months and for most babies that only have a mild-moderate case, it will drastically improve by 5-6 months of age.
He also pressed all on Jackson’s belly, sometimes hard and Jackson didn’t flinch one bit and he didn’t spit up with the added pressure. He looked at me when he was done and said, “mild-moderate case.” I could read his mind though and tell that he thought that perhaps while I wasn’t wasting his time, it was fairly pointless for me to be there. He once asked me, “So what’s the problem?” because I kept saying that the Prevacid takes care of it, as long as the dosage is high enough.
I felt as if he was asking, “Why are you here?” so I told him that I hoenstly didn’t think Jackson’s reflux was severe enough to warrant a referral to him. It was probably because my pedi likely wanted to wash her hands of the situation because she’s not very knowledgable on the subject so I don’t fault her for referring when she doesn’t know a whole lot about it. There are specialist for that very reason!
Does that help answer your question? It might not but those are the things that I thought of that probably lead him to say that it will likely clear up around 5-6 months.
nataliachick7 wrote: [QUOTE=ali gal]
Jackson has never projectile vomitted, which apparently he thinks is a key sign/symptom of severity.
wow that is so not true. i dont know many refluxers that projectlie vomit. prejectile vommiting is usually associated with pyloric stenosis (Pyloric stenosis is the narrowing of part of the stomach (the pylorus) that leads into the small intestines. This narrowing occurs because the muscle around the pylorus has grown too large. Most babies with pyloric stenosis begin to vomit during the second to third week of life. Babies begin with “spitting up” that turns into forceful projectile vomiting. The vomiting occurs after feeding. )
my son is for the most part a silent refluxer, meaning he doesnt spit up at all. he has SEVERE reflux, and requires extremely high doses of meds.geez some docs make me so angry.
[/QUOTE]Oh yeah, I’ve researched the heck out of the pyloric stenosis. From everything I’ve read, usually the pyloric stenosis signs/symptoms will be so severe and they usually appear around 1-2 months of age. I was worried about that but am not that much any longer because Jackson is now 2.5 months old almost! I think he is out of that window now!
Jackson is a silent refluxer too! It’s awful! He said we could do a pH probe to see how often he is refluxing and that would determine severity (perhaps this is true? don’t know?). I don’t want to put Jackson through that, esp since the Prevacid takes care of his reflux for now. It wouldn’t change the course of his treatment so why bother? I think if we did it and I found out a number, I’d go insane and feel so badly for him. I had reflux while I was pregnant and it was horrible so I can only imagine how horrible he feels!
Oh, and Jackson does spit up every now and then. For the most part, the Prevacid keeps it under control fairly well. I thought I read somewhere on here that someone said perhaps silent refluxers eventually start to spit some of it up. I know I read it on here somewhere. Obviously it won’t apply to every child but Jackson definitely used to keep it all down and now he is spitting up every now and then. Maybe this is a sign of improvement — yeah, right…wishful thinking?!
ali gal wrote: [QUOTE=nataliachick7] [QUOTE=ali gal]
Jackson has never projectile vomitted, which apparently he thinks is a key sign/symptom of severity.
wow that is so not true. i dont know many refluxers that projectlie vomit. prejectile vommiting is usually associated with pyloric stenosis (Pyloric stenosis is the narrowing of part of the stomach (the pylorus) that leads into the small intestines. This narrowing occurs because the muscle around the pylorus has grown too large. Most babies with pyloric stenosis begin to vomit during the second to third week of life. Babies begin with “spitting up” that turns into forceful projectile vomiting. The vomiting occurs after feeding. )
my son is for the most part a silent refluxer, meaning he doesnt spit up at all. he has SEVERE reflux, and requires extremely high doses of meds.geez some docs make me so angry.
[/QUOTE]Oh yeah, I’ve researched the heck out of the pyloric stenosis. From everything I’ve read, usually the pyloric stenosis signs/symptoms will be so severe and they usually appear around 1-2 months of age. I was worried about that but am not that much any longer because Jackson is now 2.5 months old almost! I think he is out of that window now!
Jackson is a silent refluxer too! It’s awful! He said we could do a pH probe to see how often he is refluxing and that would determine severity (perhaps this is true? don’t know?). I don’t want to put Jackson through that, esp since the Prevacid takes care of his reflux for now. It wouldn’t change the course of his treatment so why bother? I think if we did it and I found out a number, I’d go insane and feel so badly for him. I had reflux while I was pregnant and it was horrible so I can only imagine how horrible he feels!
Oh, and Jackson does spit up every now and then. For the most part, the Prevacid keeps it under control fairly well. I thought I read somewhere on here that someone said perhaps silent refluxers eventually start to spit some of it up. I know I read it on here somewhere. Obviously it won’t apply to every child but Jackson definitely used to keep it all down and now he is spitting up every now and then. Maybe this is a sign of improvement — yeah, right…wishful thinking?!
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yea my son spits up more on the meds, and the theory is its becauuse its not acidic anymore so they can spit it up and it doesnt bother them anymore. i dont think id want a ph probe either especially since the meds are working, and it wouldnt change anything.
s&h’s mum wrote: Hailey’s comes up into her mouth and then you see her swallow it back (for the most part). Sometimes if you’re near her and she’s laughing hard or something, you can actually see it pooled in her mouth and then she swallows it back down. Sometimes you just hear it and then she seems to swallow. I think they’re all different (just to complicate matters of course!)
That is what Sebastian does too. It is so gross. The other day it was spilling out his lips and he still swallowed it back down
I don’t know why he wont just spit it out!
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