success stories on Prevacid??

[Anonymous]

I really need some encouragement guys! I finally got the doc to actually see me in the office and she put my DD on Nutramagen (sp?) formula and Prevacid Solutabs. Addy is 7 weeks old 11lbs 5 oz..and she takes 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 tab at night. We’re on day one of this new combo and I guess after 6 weeks of dealing with this I need to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I go to work in 3 weeks and she starts daycare. they will sleep her on her back and she chokes so bad on the reflux…we sleep her on her belly during the day and side at night. They WILL NOT sleep her in either of these positions.

I must also say that before starting this, we experienced the mucasy blood streaked stools on everything from breast to these Hypo formulas (before the medication). The only thing that helped her was the soy milk (little reflux but TONS TONS TONS of gas!!!). That’s why I’m a skeptic when it comes to what the docs got us on now…

I’ve done and tried everything. The doc says this is the thing before seeing the GI…if this treatment doesn’t work for her. I can’t imagine going through more stuff with this…so I need some success stories PLEASE!!!

HeathJS282007-10-19 00:38:59

[Anonymous]

Here is a huge success story. Cooper started refluxing at 3 weeks on bm. So I switched to soy until he was 8 weeks old as he really wasn’t any better. We started Nutramigen and Zantac at that point. At 10 weeks we started Prevacid (7.5mg/day) and scheduled an upper GI which showed severe reflux. Saw our ped GI and he kept up on this schedule as we were having some improvement. After 2 weeks I asked for a dose increase and he said okay, more improvement noted, but still not the happy baby I knew I could have. After another 2 weeks I asked for another dose increase and he reluctnantly consented (we are on 15mg in the a.m and 15mg in the p.m) and we finally had our happy baby boy that I knew wanted to come out. So ther eis a light at the end of the tunnel, it may take a few weeks and some dose adjustments but it will come.

For daycare I would ask if they can put her on an incline if they must sleep her on her back that way she may not reflux/choke so much or even nap her in a bouncy seat. My friend has them do this with her dd at daycare as she chokes on her back as well. HTH.

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[Anonymous]

My two cents with the daycare issue is could your doc write a script for it– it is sometimes “a necessity”. My doc did this for us and I also wrote a letter out why my son needed to be on his tummy and they just put it in his file for the state if they ever did a check. Don’t know if those routes would help you, but it did us. Also the incline in no matter what position they are in might help???

[Anonymous]

I asked my doc about that. She said they would incline her bed, but liability to the dr office would be huge because of SIDS. So they wouldn’t write anything for her to have a sleep positioner or sleep on her belly. So, I’m counting that out completely

[Anonymous]

Wow! Our ped wrote a script for her to sleep on her tummy. He said that reflux babies are actually at greater risk on their backs. Sorry, I know that doesn’t help.

[Anonymous]

Prevacid worked great for my dd. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Prevacid was the miracle cure for my little guy!! Just make sure you are giving it on an empty stomach and then following it up with a meal 30 minutes later. Also, if you don’t see big improvement in two weeks, ask for a higher dose. My son needed a few dosage increases until we saw results.

Good luck!

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