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October 6, 2011 at 4:31 am #69160
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InactiveIm going to sound crazy…but…my LO has been doing great the last 3 weeks on prevacid. I went from using marci kids dosing to only 2x per day to now 1x per day dosing with no silent reflux issues.
She is like a new baby…its wonderful…her babysitters are even amazed by the change.
I find myself tempted to try no prevacid and see if the reflux comes roaring back or if in this short period of time she has grown out of it?? Or if she had some sort of allergy to something I was eating all this time causing the reflux…her gut has finally matured??
Or is it most likely her esophagus has finally healed and so a smaller dose is working and I should just leave it?
Im only tempted because the prevacid did cause a decrease in appetite and if she is better I would rather take her off meds. On the other hand, if she isn’t better, I don’t want to have to go thru weeks of misery again for the ppi to start working.
Hoping someone wiser then I can offer some input. Thanks.
Fyi…she is 4 months old and on bb with prevacid. Current dose is 8mg 1x a day…down from 8mg 3x per day.
lynnedays 2011-10-06 04:33:39 October 6, 2011 at 7:55 am #69161hellbennt
KeymasterI would keep at the prevacid , add in zantac (4 hrs seperate), back off of the prevacid, stay on the zantac & then back off of the zantac…good luck!
have you changed your diet (you’re breastfeeding?)have you added probiotics?have you gone to a ped GI? can you post your experience w/ ped GI, so that others who find this site later, after you’re long gone, can know about her/him?thanks!October 6, 2011 at 8:08 am #69163Anonymous
InactiveOk. Ill give that a go. Do you know what is the right dose of zantac? Last time the ped perscribed zantac it was for 1ml 3x a day. She is 13.10lbs now.
October 6, 2011 at 8:31 pm #69168hellbennt
KeymasterI will calcualte zantac for you, but please don’t just take my word on it! read here:
Zantac dosing– my/other’s question (has axid & pepcid doses, too):
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8288&PN=1
ok 13 lbs 10 ounces (that’s what you meant, right?) = 6.2 kilosmax dose for zantac is 10 mgs per kiloso 6.2 x 10 = 62mgs total of zantac for the dayyour bottle of liquid zantac says 15mgs/ml
this means that for every 1ml of liquid you give, there’s 15mgs of the medicine zantac in that 1ml of liquid
so 62 divided by 15 = 4.1mls a day total of zantac for the day
you can split that into two doses, however you want to; they do not need to be ‘even’
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