Prilosec dosing info. needed

[Anonymous]

Hi there! First, let me say that I am in no means going to self-medicate my child, but I just wanted some advice on Prilosec for my daughter. She has a pedi appt. next week, and I wanted to get advice to see if I was out of line in asking them to up my daughter’s dosage.

She is doing GREAT on Prilosec. She was on Zantac before and she not did horrible on it, but hated the taste. She takes the Prilosec like a champ.

We have sort of noticed her reflux in the last couple weeks to be “flaring” up again. She is having some cranky periods and we wonder if the dosage she got at 2 months when she was 10 lbs. 14 oz. is what she needs now. She is (we estimate) probably 13 lbs and 4 months old.

Do you all think that I should ask for the dosage to be increased? I’m thinking that maybe when I tell her that her symptoms are coming back a bit that she might increase it anyway, but I have a VERY VERY conservative pedi.

Thanks in advance!

Kristi

[hellbennt]

hi there,

the meds are all weight sensitive & there was a time when my son needed his meds increased, prilosec being one of them, at every weight gain. he eventually was maxed out on prilosec for his weight and then was switched to prevacid and he did great with it.

if you check out my welcome/intro there’s info about PPI dosing:

here’s my welcome/intro: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID= 853&am p;PN=1&TPN=1

as well as at http://www.marci-kids.com

I can tell you that 3yrs ago prilosec dosing was 1-3mgs per kilo, with 1mg per kilo being very very conservative and 3mgs per kilo being ‘more like it’ (marci kids will tell you even more, & if you can get that, all the power to you & your baby!)

so if your baby is getting below 3mgs per kilo (take her weight in pounds and divide by 2.2 to get kilos) per day total, well then it’s probably not enough…

hellbennt2006-6-18 20:39:21

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