Need info about Nexium

[Anonymous]

Hi my name is Olivia. My baby is almost 3months old. She had been on prevacid for about 2months and i just had to switch her to nexium 10mg delayed release because of insurance issues. No one, not the doctor or pharmacist have really given me information about how to give her the medicine. I have no idea what Im doing basically. I gave her the full packet of nexium with 10ml of water because she HAD to have something and no one in this little town seems to know much of anything really. Just hoping you guys can help!!

[hellbennt]

I would look at http://www.marci-kids.com

and if there’s nothing there about nexium, then I would try contacting them.

also doing a search here- go to the upper right-hand corner of the screen, click on search

use keyword nexium

choose all forums

and choose 6 months and OLDER from the drop-down menu…

I would think you need to give on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later

as for the dosing, I’d at least start out calculating prevacid dose and using that until you have a definite answer (it’s on marci-kids.com)

[Anonymous]

Is it the packets or capsule? Packets are supposed to be mixed with 15ml water, let it sit and thicken. Give on empty stomach then wait 1 hour to feed.

For capsules (we use these since the packets kept clumping), you just take apple juice or pedialyte, pour into a small container (not a lot, we use 20ml so we have extra to wash everything down and keep him happy for a bit), open capsule and add beads, suck up into syringe and administer. If you don’t use enough liquid you may need to follow up with some extra to made sure all the beads get down.

Good luck! We love the Nexium capsules, only med that worked for us.

If you have trouble with the hour wait, our first dr said water in a bottle was ok. Now we do use water downed apple juice cause he does not like water, but it helps get through if he is really not wanting to wait. At 1 month our pedi at the time said 4 oz of water per day was ok, but not too much because they do need to eat at the 1 hour mark. I usually just do 2 oz max.

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