Help please!

[Anonymous]

My daughter Chloe, is 17 month old, she used to have reflux when she was 4 month-6 month old, she was taking zantac for a month and then it cleared up. But since 4 days ago, she’s starting to have this “episode” , everytime after eating or drinking her milk, she will have this loud burping and threw up her whole meal/milk. And she would cough, gag and choking all day. well, she’s a gagger and a puker, she can’t cry, laugh and run so hard, those will make her puke. and she used to have problem with chunky food but now she’s starting to accept it without gagging. but her regular ped said it is normal, some babies just born puker. well, she never shown that she’s in pain, she sleeps through the night and eat a lot. And she weight 29lbs at 17month. But on Friday, I went to see the doctor, the doctor is not her regular ped (her regular ped is no longer working as physician) and she want to put her on prevacid. but she’s not sure if Chloe has stomach virus or her reflux coming back. Her diet doesn’t change at all this past 4 months. She doesn’t have any allergy and a good eater. But to see her like this, makes me worry. She would threw up every feeding and coughing all day now although today, she’s not threw up her entire meal. I don’t know! Can someone help me? And is the prevacid solutabs good? the doctor told me to cut in half n give it to her once a day. How long the prevacid will work? She’s coughing all day and threw up, but she still want to eat and not in pain. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Since she’s been off meds for so long already, I’d probably give it a few days to see if she’s getting a cold or a virus. If things still continue, then I’d consider putting her on a the prevacid. It’s good that she’ snot in any pain, so maybe she’s just a “happy spitter”, but until she outgrows it, if she’s vomitting a lot, then you might want to use the med to protect the esophagus from damage. It’s a good sign that her weight is good (My 4 year old is only 33 pounds). The prevacid solutab needs to be given on an empty stomach and followed up with a full meal 30-60 minutes later to activate the med. Even with it though, you won’t likely see a decrease in the amount of vomitting. It’s only supposed to stop the acid production, not the vomitting itself.

My daughter was once like you describe yours, in terms of the easy vomitter. But she was also in pain from the reflux. Now at age 4, she’s still any easy vomitter, but the relux is mostly outgrown. Whenever she gets the slightest cold or virus, we know that she’ll vomit all over the place. It’s messy, but it’s just Hailey.

Good luck figuring things out.

[Anonymous]

Hi Lori, thanks so much!
I give her 1/2 prevacid once a day, I don’t see any difference though, but I would like to put her on it for at least 2 weeks.
Sigh, it just happened last week, and every time after I fed her, I always has this scare to wait her to vomit !

[Anonymous]

You won’t SEE any difference with the prevacid in terms of vomitting. It will only stop the acid, NOT the vomit! If she’s not bothered by the vomit, then you probably won’t see anything at all. Good luck.

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