spitting up after getting meds

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

This may seem like a silly question but my three month old is on prevacid. He takes it very well but sometimes he spits up a minute or two after I give it to him. Does that mean he is losing all of the medicine. I have not been too worried about it because it typically doesn’t happen every day but this week he has done it three days in a row. Does the medicine start working the minute it hits the stomach? He was in so much pain before we started the meds. I would hate for the symptoms to return. I am probably just being over worried but if anyone has any thoughts please let me know.

Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

There’s no way to tell HOW MUCH of the med is coming up after except to give an educated guess by what’s in the spit up. But if he’s spitting up right after, then he’s definitely not getting his full dose, and maybe not getting anything. If you’re using compounded prevacid, then if it stays down for 15-20 minutes, then it should have worked because it’s immediate release. For delayed release like the solutabs, we were told that it needs to stay down for twice that amount.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thank you so much for responding.

He sometimes spits up two to three minutes after and sometimes up to ten minutes later. He spit up a little today again. I have tried using less water to dissolve as well as just putting it in his mouth to dissolve with no water (hold it on his cheek). Any suggestions on what I should do? I obviously can’t redose because I have no idea how much he spit up. However, have you ever heard of people splitting the dose and giving it twice a day?

He is taking the solutab. He used to be on Zantac as well so I got that compounded because of the awful mint flavor. I didn’t realize you could compound Prevacid. Why would you get it compounded?

Again, he has not shown any symptoms that the pain is coming back yet so I know I should just sit back and see what happens. Perhaps some of it is getting down. However, I am not sure how many days it would take for his esophogus to get inflamed again. I could not bare to see him in the kind of pain he was in before we got him on prevacid.

Thanks again!

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