Hi –
My son is 14 months old, and still has reflux. We are on thickened Nutramigen (honey simply thick). They found that he had an aspiration problem at 9 months. Ever since he was put on the simply thick, his coughing from reflux has stopped. He has also been on prevacid since he was 2 months old. Well, last week, we decided to add some rice milk to his sippy’s in place of some of the nutramigen. After a week of this, I am noticing that shortly after a meal w/drink, he has a wet sound in his chest, and has to cough it up. He also seemed to be in pain after meals and sippy’s. I talked to our Speech Pathologist/Feeding therapist, and she said that his reflux is probably out of control, and that it is coming up and pooling in his “vallecula”, which is a small indention back behind the start of the tongue (not in the airways, but somewhere in between). This pooling causes the wet cough.
I have no idea why the rice milk would have worsened his reflux to this degree and caused his coughing problem to come back. I just wondered if anyone has had experience with this issue.
Please advise!!
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