Prevacid Solutabs question

[Anonymous]

Just a quick question and a little background info:

My daughter is almost 3 weeks old. Has silent reflux, a grunter, hiccups, sneezing, etc. My son had silent reflux & torticollis. He was on Prevacid and then we switched to Zegerid. He outgrew his reflux around 4 months.

Our pedi put my daughter on Zantac for a couple days. But, we quickly figured out that that was not working. We are now using Prevacid Solutabs, which is new to me. We used compounded Prevacid with my son.

My question: Our pedi prescribed 15mg Solutabs, to be mixed with 5ml water. He wants us to give her 2ml of the mixture, once a day. We can increase to 4ml a day, if need be (2ml twice a day). When we make the 5ml mixture and only use 2ml, 3ml is left. I hate to waste those 3ml but on the patient leaflet, it says that all of the Solutab must be used within 15 minutes of mixing it with water. Is this true or can I put the rest of the mixture in the fridge and still use it (with the same effectiveness)? I really hate to waste it if it is still going to be effective. What do you all do with the excess?

Also, when I give her the 2ml of the mixture, should I aim to suck up all of the beads or should I only suck up 1/2 of them? I guess this may depend on whether I can use the extra 3ml or not (see above).

Thanks so much!

[Anonymous]

You are correct about the med losing its effectiveness after 15 min of being mixed with water. Personally what I would do if cut the tab in 1/2 and then put it in a syringe (not dissolved), draw up some water to dissolve the tab and then give that way. Put the other 1/2 tab in aluminum foli to use the next day or later that day if you end up giving it 2x/day that way it won’t be affected by light as it is a light sensitive med. You can use as much water as it takes to get all the beads out of the syringe. The way they prescirbed it sounds really odd to me. Also make sure you are giving on an empty stomach followed by a meal 30-60 min later or the med isn’t effective. They may not have told you this and since you used compounded before you may not know that. With a 3 wk old this can be really hard, but the timing part does get easier. HTH.

[Anonymous]

Cooper’s mom wrote: You are correct about the med losing its effectiveness after 15 min of being mixed with water. Personally what I would do if cut the tab in 1/2 and then put it in a syringe (not dissolved), draw up some water to dissolve the tab and then give that way. Put the other 1/2 tab in aluminum foli to use the next day or later that day if you end up giving it 2x/day that way it won’t be affected by light as it is a light sensitive med. You can use as much water as it takes to get all the beads out of the syringe. The way they prescirbed it sounds really odd to me. Also make sure you are giving on an empty stomach followed by a meal 30-60 min later or the med isn’t effective. They may not have told you this and since you used compounded before you may not know that. With a 3 wk old this can be really hard, but the timing part does get easier. HTH.

Thank you so much for your help. You gave me some much-needed advice.

I will try the aluminum foil technique. I should have figured it was light sensitive, the way the pills are packaged. Should I still refridgerate the other half or just leave it out at room temp?

Also, just to be sure that I am doing this correctly, I want to aim to get all the beads into her mouth. Is the Prevacid the actual beads?

[Anonymous]

You can leave it a room temp. The beads are the med and the red ones are just flavoring.

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