When to give Prevacid?

[Anonymous]

Does it help to give Prevacid at the end of the day so baby sleeps through the night? I know the deal about spacing the Zantac and prevacid apart.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, every baby is different but unfortunately it’s kind of a trial and error thing trying to figure out meds. It was with us anyway. If your baby is having a lot of trouble at night, try giving a dose right before bed. Kate gets three doses a day and one right before bed b/c early morning feeds were always sort of a toughy for us. How many doses are you giving? For us,and a lot of other kiddos,it really helps to break up the doses just b/c babies metablize meds so much faster and need it more often than us. I hope some of this helps but I’m sure other mamas will have more information and great things to say. Good luck with it. I hope you figure it out soon!!

[Anonymous]

It definitely depends on the baby. I’d try the morning and then the evening before bed and see which works better. Some babies get cramps giving it too close to bedtime, others don’t get enough nightime coverage if given in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Her worst time of the day is 3amish-6am. We started the Prevacid yesterday and it definitely helped–I gave her the full dose at 5 pm. But is it less effective if you break up the dose? The pharmacist said it didn’t matter when you gave it which makes no sense to me at all. She is on the maximum dosage for her weight, btw.

[hellbennt]

it is not less effective if you have a good dose to begin with and then split it up- actually babies’ metabolisms are really fast so they speed through the dose anyway, so giving it spaced apart is recommended…

when you get a chance could you put baby’s age and meds/formula/breastfeeding, etc in your signature? so many people have joined recently & its hard to keep track of all these little GERDlings– just go to the very top of this page, go to the upper right hand corner and click ‘Settings’ and then Edit Profile and go down to Signature. thanks!

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