HELP- Can’t administer Prevacid solutab!

[Anonymous]

I’m posting this here and on the “HELP” board because I desperately need some help here.

We just got our 15 MG Prevacid solutab Rx for my 7 week old daughter Anika and I thought I knew what to do but clearly I’m doing something wrong…

I tried to give her a full dose this evening and then I’m planning on starting her on the 1/2 dose twice a day tomorrow. Problem is it would be generous to say that she got 75% of tonights dose! First, she spit/ drooled a lot out and I was trying to scoop it up off of her lip and cheek and back in her mouth. Then there was a good amount still in the syringe. I tried multiple times to get more water in and re-adminster it but all that did was force more of what was in her mouth out on her lip and beyond yet what was in the syringe just stayed in there.

The net result was there was still some in the syringe as well as all over her neck, hair, ears… Lord, I really did make a mess of it.

H~E~L~P!!! Please give me some hints here. With my son, he didn’t get diagnosed until he was 10.5 months old so we used the capsules sprinkled into yogurt or applesauce. That was SO EASY…

OK, so what I did was I put the solutab in the “Prevacid” labeled syringe from the doctor, put the pusher thing in, and then sucked up about 4 ml of water. I held my finger over the end and shook it around. I wasn’t sure how long it took to disolve (I guess I was expecting more of a full disolve rather than the little beads) but after about a minute I went to adminster the med. I had Anika on a blanket on the floor and I put the syringe into her cheek. Problem though is that the syringe is quite big and her mouth is little… I think it was just way too much water so even though I tried to go slow and only do a little she still spit/ drooled a lot of it out right away. I freaked (sort of) and started scrambling to scoop it up off of her lip and cheek and put it back in her mouth. Then I just kept trying to suck up more water to finish what was in the syringe but it’s like it was stuck. Finally I just started hitting the other end of the syringe on my hand to get as many beads as possible in my hand and then I tried to kind of wipe them on her gums or the inside of her cheek.

I know… it was a disaster.

[Anonymous]

I think that different techniques have worked for different people. Some people have had success using the syringe. We only used about 2-3ml of water using the same method that you used, and using a 5ml syringe. I aimed for the inside of the cheek near the back of the mouth and went slowly. There were some beads left in the syringe, but then I had to draw up some more water and squirt that in as well.

I don’t know that Anika is old enough yet, but other people have been able to hold the tablet inside the cheek until it dissolves.

Others have dissolved the solutab on a little spoon in a few mls of water and fed it to their little ones that way. Again, I don’t know if she’s old enough for that.

Unfortunately, I think it’s trial and error to find what works best for your daughter. Once you practice a bit, you’ll probably get into a groove and it will get easier. You’re right, it is much harder to administer meds when they’re so small. We always found it easier with a narrower syringe, and found that the slower we went the better. If I went too fast, then it would go down the wrong way.

Good luck. Hope it goes better for you next time.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Lori! I tried the cheek thing this AM. It worked better than what I did last night but still was a bit of a mess. She thought my finger was the bottle so she was really confused that I kept trying to put it in her a cheek. It took longer to disolve than I thought it would so fortunately I did have a syringe with a skinny flexible end with water in it to moisten the area. But then I ended up with meds under my fingernail.

I guess I’ll just have to keep practicing. You are right that the skinnier syringes work so much easier…

[Anonymous]

ok here’s what I do and it REALLY works for us, Aidan has been on the solutabs for 7 months now. I took a motrin dropper ( not really a “dropper”) and I cut the tip off so it’s a bit wider, then I mix the tab with a bit of water, suck it up and let the pink cranules fall to the bottom, and give it to him that way. if it gets stuck I just pull up on the dropper’s plunger thing and it sucks it up so I can shake it back up. The key for me is letting the granules fall to the bottom so I know he has gotten them all…not the most convient way but it has always worked. Now that he’s older he can just take them but I still do it this way most of the time b/c he always chews them and you’re not supoed to.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jill! SOmeone else recommended a similar method (using a Mylicon dropper) and it seems to be working! … and the Prevacid seems to finally be kicking in too!

[Anonymous]

oh that’s great news!!! I love the solutabs, our insurance doesn’t cover them but they DO cover the packets, which for some reason made his erflux horribly worse when he was very little (2 monhts I think) I still have a bunch of packets, and am thinking about trying them again now that he’s older b/c the tabs are getting expensive!! But then again I don’t want to mess with anything b/c he’s so much beter! It’s great to hear that Anika (love that name btw) is finally getting some relief!!! (and you too!)

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