Medicine Question

[Anonymous]

I’m wondering if we need to either up my son’s dose or if we need to add in something like Zantac. We meet with the dr tomorrow so any advice would be appreciated.

Info: Gabe is about 22lbs, on 15mg of Prevacid 2 times a day. He was getting Zantac up until 2 months ago when it became a huge battle. I stopped giving it to him and he seemed fine at the time. Now the Prevacid doesn’t seem to be enough and so I’m trying to decide what to do. According to the Marci-kids site his Prevacid dose could be upped.

Thanks for your help!

[hellbennt]

I would up the prevacid dose

and look into pepcid complete for night time (or whenever it’s needed)

I think the dose is 1/2 a tablet for your baby- do a search (button ocated on the upper right hand corner of the screen)

you can also try adding mylanta cherry supreme to the zantac to help with the taste, that’s what we did

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

I would love to be done with Zantac forever. It was such a pain since it had to be spaced at least 4 hours from the Prevacid doses. The only way I could easily give him 2 doses of Zantac a day was to give him one dose in the middle of the night!!

I looked up the pepcid complete and that sounds awesome! One question; does it have to be spaced 4 hours from the Prevacid or just 1 hour like Mylanta and such?

[Anonymous]

Or you can try pepcid or axid. I hear they taste better then the zantac.

[Anonymous]

If you end up having to do Zantac again, there is a lemony effervescent tablet that is much more palatable. Alana was on 30mg of mg and 10mg per kilo of Zantac for quite awhile. I gave her the whole zantac dose only once so the spacing was a bit easier. Hope you have some luck with the Dr.

[Anonymous]

Jenn,

I can relate. My son Nathan is on 15 mg twice a day (first thing in the morning and before the bedtime feeding), and by the afternoon he is in pain again. If your son’s doctor will increase the Prevacid dose, I’d definitely go that route. Ours will go no higher than 30 mg (and I truly am thankful for that), but for Nathan it’s not quite enough for 24-hour relief. Like Therese mentioned, I give the full Zantac dose (10 mg/kg) at once, but it doesn’t help as much as another dose of Prevacid would. Good luck!!

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