Prevacid – Not sure of dose

[Anonymous]

My ped prescribed my 10 month old daughter the following:

15mg solutabs

Dissolve 1 tab in 5ML of water. Give 2ml of dissolved solution 1 time per day.

So how many mg is my daughter getting? My math tells me 15 mg/5 ml = 1ml per 3 mg, so therefore she is getting 6mg. Is that correct?

Thanks!

[hellbennt]

hi & welcome!

Have you checked out prevacid 101 yet?

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

this dose is extremely low…

your math seems right to me…

since you have the 15mgs, you might want to give 7.5 two times a day (even this seems low?)?

I am NOT a medical professional, this is why I encourage you to research all you can! The University of Missouri is at the forefront of the research of PPI dosing and infants. Their ‘off shoot’ group is called marci kids.

their site, http://www.marci-kids.com, has been under construction for a bit, but there is a link to their dosing chart from Prevacid 101. The research shows that babies need two doses or even three- they have fast metabolisms and ‘zip’ through the medicine…

please research all you can; you can do this!

~laura

[Anonymous]

Hi Laura,

Yes, I’ve been researching the site and Prevacid 101. I’m confused by the dosage chart I’ve found though. Or unsure…maybe not confused.

So per the dosage chart, it reads 1 – 1.25 mg/kg. My daughter is 18lb 12 oz so that’s 8.5kg in weight. So therefore, per the dosage chart, she should be getting 8.5mg 3 times a day? (Low end of the dosage recommendation for her weight)

[hellbennt]

Yes.

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