how do you time nighttime pevacid?

[Anonymous]

My doc suggests cutting out nighttime prevacid since it’s hard to find the right time when their belly is empty.

When do you give it? How do you make sure their belly is empty? I feel like I was making them eat 3 hours before just so it would be empty later. Even if they weren’t ready for it.

[Anonymous]

It really is difficult to time the Prevacid around meals. It drove me
nuts when Myles was on it. What I did was make sure his last meal was 2
hours before he usually went to bed for the night, or for the longest
stretch of sleep (when he was still gettting up at night to eat). When
he was five months old he was usually ready for bed by 8pm, so I didn’t
feed him after 5:30; gave him his Prevacid at 7:30 and bottle at 8pm.
Sometimes I would have to wake him from a daytime nap so that he would
have enough to eat so I could stop feeding him at 5:30. It really
is a PITA. Zegerid would be so much easier.

Personally I would not cut out the night time dose even if you can’t
give it to them on a completely empty stomach. They will still get some
benefit from the drug. They just won’t get the full effect. Myles’
tummy was definitely not always empty when he got his meds and it still
helped him.

[Anonymous]

Every baby is different, but Kaelyn needed her night time dose more than her morning one. So, we gave her the morning one on an empty stomach and her night time one usually wasn’t on an empty stomach. It still seemed to make a big difference in her night wakings, so I figured it was better than no meds at all.

[Anonymous]

It is recommended to give it on an empty stomach but we are talking about infants. Just do you best and give it when you can. That nightime dose really helps. There was a time when knowone worried about the timing. She will get some of the medication even if its not on an empty stomach. You just do what you have to do.

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