New to forums

[Anonymous]

Hello,

My name is Tiffany and I have a 3 year old son and a daughter who will be 2 months old on Tuesday. My daughter, Isabella, was diagnosed with acid reflux about a month ago. I am breastfeeding, so they started her out on Axid which worked for about a week and a half then just stopped working. My pediatrician tried Prevacid next, 15mg solutabs cut in half, twice a day. That worked really well until today. Her reflux is really bad today, so we have both been crying all day. I am so frustrated because I cannot find any liquid antacid that does not contain aluminum anywhere for her breakthrough pain. To make matters worse, my husband works for seven days far away from home and then comes home for 7 days off and of course all if her episodes occur when he is at work and on the weekend, so I can’t even call her pediatrician. I just had to switch babysitters, I go to college, because her old one couldn’t handle her. I don’t know how to help her. I have tried everything I saw posted on these forums. I am sorry to vent so much negativity, but I feel like no one understands what I am going through. There is so much flashing through my head that I think I am going to have to give up (school, breastfeeding, time and attention given to my son) I would really appreciate any advice, especially anything OTC that can help until I can call her pediatrician on Monday. I have tried tummy time, inclined and upright positioning, adding rice cereal to breastmik, cuddling. Nothing is helping.

Thanks,

Tiffany

[Anonymous]

I am so sorry you and your little one are suffering so much. 🙁 I feel for you!!

Have you tried probiotics and enzymes?

The reason that my children had so many digestive problems is that they had an enzyme and probiotic deficiency. The pancreas is what makes digestive enzymes and puts them in our stomach to break down the food we eat. All foods have enzymes in them but anytime a food is cooked or processed it kills the enzymes. With our diets today of mostly cooked and processed foods it’s hard for our pancreas to be able to produce enough enzymes. Without enough enzymes in the stomach to break down the food the only thing our stomach knows to do is produce more acid to try to break it down. Too much acid in the stomach will cause heart burn, acid reflux, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

If a parent has a pancreas that isn’t producing enough enzymes then it is possible that their children can be born with a pancreas that doesn’t work well either. If the mother will take a supplement of enzymes and probiotics while pregnant she will pass these on to her baby and have a baby with a healthy digestive system.

Probiotics are the good, live bacteria that live in our body. One of the things they do is coat and protect our entire digestive tract (and also the ears and nose). When the stomach produces too much acid then it is forced up the esophagus and down the intestines and will kill probiotics. (Antibiotics also kill probiotics.) When the probiotics are depleted then the acid is traveling right up next to the esophagus and intestines with no protection. This is often why reflux burns so badly and why the intestines will sometimes bleed.

[Anonymous]

I actually increase her dose of prevacid to three times a day instead of two and that seems to be helping. Am I supposed to take the probiotics and enzymes or is that something that I give to her? I am definitely willing to try if it will help. I also have heartburn and take prilosec daily, so maybe she could have gotten this from me.

Thanks so much!!
Tiffany

[hellbennt]

Prevacid 101:

scroll to the last page of this post, (it’s actually also about other PPIs like prilosec, too)
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&PN=0&TPN=1

you can’t find mylanta cherry supreme anymore, but you can find store brand equivalents. Try: rite-aid, cvs brand, walmart, target, Bartell Drug (West coast), Dollar General,

brand names: Geri-Care & Geri-Lanta Supreme, meijer, etc- just look for one that does not list aluminum in the ingredients. you can give 1ml up to 5 times a day- it’s safe, even for newborns. if you see loose stools back off.

the mylanta (or it’s equivalent) needs to be spaced 4hrs from the prevacid

you can give axid, too, just space it 4hrs from the prevacid (you can give axidf & ‘mylanta’ at the same time)

[Anonymous]

Sorry for not replying sooner. We just returned last night from a little vacation to see some relation in Kentucky.

Yes, if you are nursing you can take the probiotics and enzymes yourself. It may take more pills and take longer to take effect than if you give them directly to baby. So if I was you start by taking the pills myself. I would start by taking one with each meal. Then I would add in 1 a day until you were up to 6-8 pills a day. One mom said that by taking 2 pills with each meal and one with snacks it helped her baby a ton. If you want to give pills directly to baby, you could do that instead of taking them yourself or along with taking them yourself. I would start baby with 1/4 – 1/2 pill a day and add 1/4 – 1/2 a day until he is doing better.

The probiotics and enzymes are all plant based so the body recognizes them as food. You won’t overdose very quickly.

But don’t be surprised if baby seems to get worse when you first start taking the pills.

We have not noticed any bad side effects from the Digestive Health. But it is possible that these pills could cause temporary gas or diarrhea. Some people even say that their reflux and pain worsen at first. This is caused from the build up of undigested protein being broken down and passed out the body. When the stomach can not break down protein it just stays in the stomach and builds up.

It can also be caused from the probiotics killing off the overgrowth of yeast. Probiotics and yeast live in the same environment. When probiotics are low then the yeast will take over. So when probiotics are taken they make the yeast die off. With this process it can temporarily cause symptoms to become worse.

In doing some research I have found a lot of information on why probiotics can make you sick. This is something I copied from another forum….

Within a couple days of taking a probiotic called Primadophalis, I was feeling so sick that I had to miss an entire week of classes. I stopped taking the probiotic around the middle of last week and now I am finally feeling better after a variety of strange symptoms ranging from odd aches and pains, to coldness, to chest pains and a lack of appetite. Why did this happen?

Reply…

Its callede the herx reaction. it is verry common and the only way to overcome it while taking the probiotics is to plow through it untill it stops after a week or two.

The Herxheimer Reaction is a short-term (from days to a few weeks) detoxification reaction in the body. As the body detoxifies, it is not uncommon to experience flu-like symptoms including headache, joint and muscle pain, body aches, sore throat, general malaise, sweating, chills, nausea or other symptoms.

This is a normal — and even healthy — reaction that indicates that parasites, fungus, viruses, bacteria or other pathogens are being effectively killed off. The biggest problem with the Herxheimer reaction is that people stop taking the supplement or medication that is causing the reaction, and thus discontinue the very treatment that is helping to make them better. Although the experience may not make you feel particularly good, the Herxheimer Reaction is actually a sign that healing is taking place.

What Is The Herxheimer Reaction?

The Herxheimer Reaction is an immune system reaction to the toxins (endotoxins) that are released when large amounts of pathogens are being killed off, and the body does not eliminate the toxins quickly enough. Simply stated, it is a reaction that occurs when the body is detoxifying and the released toxins either exacerbate the symptoms being treated or create their own symptoms. The important thing to note is that worsening symptoms do not indicate failure of the treatment in question; in fact, usually just the opposite.

[hellbennt]

How is everything? any updates?

[Author]

Posts