Prevacid solutab

[Anonymous]

Ok, we just got these yesterday and I’m having trouble understanding how to give them to Tess. Our ped said to dissolve the tab in 5ml of water, then give her 3.5ml of the solution. I assumed the tablet would dissolve completely but it doesn’t – there are little granules still in the water. So when we squirt the solution into her mouth I have no control over how much of the granules she gets. I mean, I can make sure they all come out of the syringe with the 3.5ml of water. Is that what I’m supposed to do? I certainly can’t make it so that she gets 3/5 of them. I’d love some advice as I want to make sure this medication gets into her system ASAP. TIA!

Karen

[Anonymous]

WEll, as far as I know, I think the granules ARE the medication, and yeah it will be hard to try to guess how many shes getting…and it CAN take up to 2 weeks for the soltabs to really kick in…I just put the tab in water, and use a syrange to get my son to take them, sometimes he spits a bit out, but as long as he gets some of it, I;m ok. I’d call the doc back and ask him/her about how to split the medicine so she’s getting the right amount.

[hellbennt]

there’s a link called ‘Prevacid 101’ from my welcome/intro and from there, there’s a section about solutabs and a link about how to administer them and also a link about WHEN to administer them to make them the most effective: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=853&am p;am p;am p;PN=1&TPN=1

[Anonymous]

Jill – Yeah I figured those little beads were the medicine. Drat. Now we’re going to have to wait until Monday to telk to the doc about it.

Laura – Thanks. I actually read all of that info. It doesn’t address the issue of how to give Tess 3/5 of a dose.

Karen

[Anonymous]

Karen, 3.5 ml out of 5 is actually 70% of the dose (your question appealed to my inner math geek). I would think that 70 is close enough to 75% that you could use some of the suggestions in Laura’s links by using a pill splitter to cut the solutab in half and then cutting one of the halves in half again. If you use one half and one quarter that would come out to about the same amount as your ped recommended (there are always little flakes left behind when you split the solutabs that should make up for that 5% difference). Joel (reflux sol) has posted in the past about the dangers of trying to give the medicine the way that your ped recommended. You may be giving exactly 3.5 ml of liquid, but none of the medicine. It is really imprecise. Good luck!

Kaelyn was right around the same age as Tess when we started holding the solutab in her cheek until it dissolved and then squirting some water into her mouth to help her wash it down. It worked wonderfully for her.

[Anonymous]

I agree with Kim – try splitting the dose before dissolving. What we found worked best for Zach (at about the same age as Tess) was to put it on a spoon with just a couple of drops of water to help it dissolve. That way he was getting all of the medicine. We had a hard time with the syringe because there was always quite a bit of the medicine that would stick to the sides so I didn’t think he was getting the dose he needed.

[Anonymous]

Karen and all who replied to her,

Thanks so much for your question and info! I just joined the site last night and was having a similar issue. My daughter is 6m and I am to give her 7.5mg, but it kept getting stuck in the syringe. I will try some of your suggestions!

This site is truly a blessing!

[Anonymous]

The is also a Prevacid that comes in 15mg powder packets that you add 15ml of water to. That also has the white beads in it. I ALWAYS had trouble with the white beads sticking in the syringe, so I spoon fed my son the meds starting at 3 weeks old (I would hold the spoon flat over his lips after giving it to him, so his ‘suck reflex’ wouldn’t spit the meds out). I also wanted to remind you that if you get the powder packets, you have to make sure that the doc prescribes two packets a day, because the dose only lasts for an hour and then you have to toss the rest you don’t use. Oh, and I used the “Sassy” brand spoons because they are really flat (gerber spoons didn’t work because they were too thick)lansima2006-3-9 10:7:47

[Anonymous]

We also did the packets from a very young age and instead of mixing it all and tossing, we just eyed it and mixed half the packet at a time. This way we didn’t have to toss anything.

The regular syringes were too small, but we asked the pharmacy to order us the disposable ones that they hand out when you pick up a med, and they got them by the case for us and they only charged us $20 for 250 of them. These had a wider spout so none of the beads got stuck. We mixed the med in a dixie cup and then we tossed everything because it was all disposable. This way we never worried about cleaning the syringes, or the cups, etc…….

Glad you are having success with this form as well, Marsha. I am not sure if the next one has reflux I will do the packets again or not because it seems there are different options out there, but these did work for us with Dylan…….

monty1232006-3-9 10:25:36

[Anonymous]

Just a note on the prevacid packets, they swiched my 3 month old to them when he was 8 weeks old. After a week on them his congestion was horrendous and he got so hoarse he could not even make a sound when he cried. As soon as he was switched back to the soltabs, and off the packets, the congestion went away as did the hoarsness. There’s no good reason why he reacted to the packets like that, but he did, and I have read about one other little one on here who had that reaction as well, so I always caution people about switching to the packets.

[Anonymous]

Jill, I think some babies react to the strawberry flavoring in the packets. I think there is much more in the packets than in the solutabs. It is all so hard sometimes…….

[Anonymous]

oh lord yes there is a TON more flavoring in the packets, but I never gave him that much, I had a big enogh med dropper (from my sis, never knew where she found it) to mix the packet with a good deal of water and only give him the beads after they floated to the tip of the dropper. So I am pretty sure it was the actualy method of medication that he was reacting too.

[Anonymous]

Jordan is on the Solutabs and I had a hard time getting all the medication into her with the syringe so now I take 1/2 the tablet and hold it under her tongue until it dissolves. She enjoys it now…

Good Luck,

Krissy

[Anonymous]

I just put my son on the Solutabs. I tried the syringe and hardly any of the beads came out no matter what size syringe I used.

I hold it in his his cheek and squirt a little water in his mouth with the syringe right over the solutab to make it dissolve quicker. It seems to work. He seems pretty happy to chew on my finger while I am holding it there!

Only word of advise is put him in an infant chair or recline the high chair a bit. If he is really upright some drools out of the mouth. But if slightly reclined it runs back and he swallows it all.

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