Choking on granules

[Anonymous]

Hi all

Sorry if this has been discussed at length, feel free to just point me towards the relevant threads!

I have a 10 week old breastfed baby with moderate reflux. Im in australia so meds are different here. He was originally taking a compounded omeprazole suspension, but due to stability, cost and flavourings etc, I switched him to the capsules (probitor). I put half the granules in his mouth and follow with breastfeeding (30min thing just wouldnt work as he only feeds well when he just wakes up). Usually most of the granules get down, but sometimes I am so scared he is choking on them before he attaches to feed. Very concerned that some might get inhaled!

I am really reluctant to give applesauce- I know it’s not considered “solids” but it still isn’t breastmilk.

I don’t know if the granules are bigger than the ones you have in the states? They are about 1mm diameter.

Any tips? I don’t want to switch back to suspension (especially now he’s on a higher dose) but maybe that’s the only safe way?

[hellbennt]

you really are ‘supposed’ to give on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later…if you can’t do that (and I couldn’t either), then I suppose that the next thing to try would be to TELL the pharmacist how to compound the omeprazole…

***How to ASK for PPIs to be Compounded (condensed version):

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4505

and another ‘condensed’ version:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7855&TPN=1

And the ‘long version’ (Scroll down to purple posts): https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3104&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;TPN=1

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