Here are the basics…
Sam is 5 mos old and we have been struggling with reflux since he was 2 weeks old. He’s been on 30mg prevacid for 2 months now and is not improving. His problem is mainly refusing to eat, and extreme arching/twisting/crying when he does unless he is asleep. We are going to see the GI on Thursday. In anticipation of this, and since I had never fully committed to trying TED before, I decided to go TED to see if anything changes since I do not want formula to be suggested. Also, Sam has always had a difficult time pooping and has LOTS of gas. Not always stinky though… He also has the red ring rash right around his anus. Though the regular pedi. doesn’t think there’s an issue and never mentioned the rash when giving him a physical exam. So I’ve been TED for 1 week now and the rash appears to be getting even redder and he is having very loose poops now… not really diarhea (sp?). They are slightly mucuousy and a brownish yellow color. Since the loose poops started he also will not even eat at bedtime anymore… He gets very agitated and won’t go to sleep if I continue trying to feed him. So I put him to bed without food tonight and he went right to sleep….hopefully he’ll eat during the night but even those feedings have begun to get very fidgety whereas he used to just eat and go right back to sleep in the middle of the night.
Ok… so the question is, does it sound like one of the TED foods is bothering him? Should I start dropping foods one at a time to see even though it’s only been a week TED so far?
Also, since we have such a hard time getting him to eat, I want to try zegerid because we won’t have timing issues. We never saw much change at all with the prevacid (tried Bufferbabies and solutabs). Anyone who has used zegerid please chime in on how it worked for you and whether or not you had problems getting the dr. to presribe it. I mentioned it once to our general pedi and he didn’t want to use it bc of the high sodium levels.
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