Best PPI?? What worked for your LO?

[Anonymous]

I am going to ask our GI doctor to prescribe a new form of Prevacid. My little man is currently taking solutabs 7.5 2x/day. He SCREAMS on them though. He was on them for about 2.5 months, we begged the dr for a change. He finally switched him to Zantac and seriously, the next day, he felt better…not cured BY ANY MEANS but better. Now, he is starting to fuss and arch (more often) again and the dr has put him back on Prevacid. He said to stop the Zantac because “he probably built up a tolerance”. I continued to give it out of fear of him being in pain. Gave the 1st Prevacid on Thursday night, normal night; up every 1.5-2 hours. Gave the 2nd dose Friday a.m. and he had a terrible day. Woke up from all naps SCREAMING, just like he used to do! So, my husband and I decided not to give it anymore.

I am going to up his Zantac dose today. I have read here on this forum that Prevacid contains trace amounts of lactose. I am wondering if Prilosec or maybe a Prevacid oral suspension might work better. Any of you have any luck with anything else??? Thank you for your time

[hellbennt]

There’s not much action on this board right now (it comes & goes), but you can learn from past posters. what happens is, people find this board when they’re desperate and then they start researching & advocating for their babies & then things start improving & then they leave the board.

There is so much knowledge stored here. Peruse this forum (the medicine forum) & also use the search function. the search button is located in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Do a few searches & search “all forums” (or just “medicines”) and use different keywords in your searches (like do a search for prilosec and do one for prevacid and do one for nexium and you can also search for zegerid – there was a time when zegerid was very popular) – also search 6 months and OLDER so you can learn from past posters…

anyway, it’s the solutabs, not all forms of prevacid, that contain some lactose and, lactose, in general, is usually not an issue because breastmilk has a lot of lactose. lactose is milk SUGAR and what babies react to is milk PROTEIN. But, anything is possible and it could be the aspertame in the solutabs that babies react to. Or maybe it IS the lactose? who knows?

what you can do now, is to buy the capsules and start right now giving the beads from the capsules to your baby and see how he reacts. even the most sensitive babies seem to be fine w/ the beads (given on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later- the beads need to be given w/ a teaspoon of applesauce- this sounds impossible w/ an infant, but you use your finger and the beads & the applesauce & you use a few skinny, 1ml syringes of water to wash it down…you can also use pedialyte – looks like you should use flavored pedialyte: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15122&KW=pedialyte)

[Anonymous]

Prevacid didn’t work for for us. It caused our toddler bad stomach pains and constipation. We switched to Nexium…made a world of difference.

I would ask for another PPI all together…it could be that your Lo just cannot tolerate prevacid at all.

[Anonymous]

My lo was on the solutabs and I had done TED for 4 weeks with no improvement… I knew the solutabs contained medical grade lactose, but I was in denial. We switched to Omeperazole (Prilosec) and we had baseline. I have a very sensitive MSPI baby.

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