To Help Ward Off Sandifers

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone!!! I just wanted to add in a bit of advice that I’ve been doing with my second daughter, who has a terrible case of Sandifers, just as my 2 year old daughter did from about 6 weeks old. My 2 year old still suffers from attacks, but they have gotten alot better since she turned 2. She still gets the full attacks when she cries really hard, complete with bronco spasms also, which sounds like the ‘hiccup’ noise from the back of their throat. We have been through absolute hell with her, and when we had our third baby, and she also from a few weeks starting having major attacks, I was not about to go through everything again, plus it was so hard to watch this little baby also suffer. I feed her formula, and when I boil her water, I fill a 4 litre milk jug, and with that water, I add in one extra strength Zantac (I use the Walmart brand) to the pot of boiling water, and that way, the entire 4 litres of water has Zantac throughout. I find that this way, if each and every bottle has the Zantac in it, it completely eliminates her attacks. Her last one was at 3 weeks, (she is now 5 months old) and thats when I started adding the Zantac in, and we’ve been 100% ever since. We have a pediatrician friend, and he told us that Zantac is completely safe, and that in fact you cannot over dose on it. He had actually done a study here in Canada using only that for Sandifers babies. I hate drugging my kids, and originally we were given all kinds of prescriptions for our other daughter, and we found that the Zantac was the best way to ward off the attacks. I know that this syndrome can be so terribly hard to deal with and watch your child go through, so I thought that since this works so well for me, I thought that I should share it with all you other moms who are also going through this experience. We have been through so much, and I am more than willing to help out in any way that I can with anyone else who may have any questions…..this web site is what originally diagnosed Turi with having Sandifers, and I felt so grateful to everyone who helped me out. And now that Shai has got it also, I feel so grateful knowing that we now can control it, very easily, and not cause anymore suffering for this little one. My heart goes out to everyone who experiences this syndrome….and this community here is the BEST when it comes to helping each other…without it, I dont know where we would be today……

dbjohnson2009-10-29 16:23:00

[Anonymous]

that’s really interesting—i’ve never heard of anyone doing that. i’m glad it has worked so well for you—–zantac didn’t work for us, but i know it has helped other babies. it sounds like your little one gets a little more medicine this way. kevieb2009-10-31 14:57:02

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