Carrots aggravating reflux?

[Anonymous]

Caia is on Prevacid compound 4 ml/day…. (She is 5 1/2 mos. old and has been on Prevacid since 3 1/2 mos….)

We recently started back on solids after coming off of them when I couldn’t figure out which ones were aggravating her. We started slow with 3 days minimum on each…things were going great…

We went through green beans…which seemed to mess her up a little…

Peas…no problem

Squash…no problem

Sweet potatoes…no problem

And then came carrots. I started them Sunday afternoon, and by last night we were a screaming/puking mess.

She has been back on her old menu (squash/sweet potatoes) today, but the reflux is continuing to bother her.

Has anyone noticed carrots being a culprit for a reflux flare? How long will it take before her system calms back down, and we can move on to the next food…which is pears…and I am totally scared of doing!!

[Anonymous]

From my distant memory I think I remember another mum posting about carrots aggravating reflux. I suppose anything might for any babies. I would just stick with the things you know she is OK with for a week to give it all a chance to settle down, then move on to something else.

I actually did fruit first with Alana and she had no probs. The other thing you could do is try mixing some apple with the sweet potato (that you know she is OK with) and if you notice a change from a little bit you know not to go with just apple (hopefully then reducing the time it takes for the offender to get out of the system). If she does OK you could gradually increase the ratio.

Goodluck.

[Anonymous]

carrots and bananas were and are a huge problem for landen!! reflux all a flare and screaming when he was younger and now he can eat them but I will hear lots of silent refluxing and unsettling in his crib at night and waking up. so we avoid them!

[Anonymous]

Thank you both so much!!! I just never suspected carrots would be a problem!

I am suspicious of bananas as well, b.c when sge was eating them before, she was a wreck!!!

[Anonymous]

Yep, Carrots were a problem here too.

[Anonymous]

carrots and bananas caused some problems for us too, though I found he could do carrots when they were mixed with other veggies like in the mixed vegetables and garden vegetable baby foods.

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