We are in Toronto and NEVER had any success with compounded omeprazole (called losec). Back then, which was almost 5 years ago now, the hospital for sick children was even saying that compounded losec wasn’t good. Problem back then was that there weren’t any other options. I’d suspect that your losec compound isn’t being made correctly. Check out the link in the med section about pharmacy compounded PPIs as I can’t remember the details. How many mg/ml is your compound? There’s also probably not enough bicarb in it. What’s is daily dose in total? That’s another problem, Canada is notorious for low doses of PPI for children. If the dose is too low, it won’t work, and if the compound is not made correctly it won’t work.
Laura’s suggestion is a good one. You can try that. Another good option is to order buffer babies through marci-kids. We used caracream, which is what buffer babies was called back then as it was a bit different. They’ll probably send you a free sample to try… at least they used to. Check out
http://www.marci-kids.com for details.
Finally, if your baby eats and drinks well, then a great option is the prevacid fast tab (called solutab) in the US. This wasn’t around when we were going through this, but it tastes good, and dissolves quickly in the mouth or in a syringe so that you don’t need to give very much med. You give on an empty stomach and then follow up with a meal 3-60 minutes later. We found that for us, prevacid worked the best. We tried all forms that we could get, and finally settled on prevacid in caracream which we ordered from marci-kids. But again, the dose had to be high enough. Good luck.
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