hellbennt

vanilla extract does have alcohol in it- I found this
from here: http://www.vanilla.com/html/facts-extracts.html

Natural Vanilla Flavor
People who prefer not to use an alcohol-based extract can substitute natural vanilla flavor found in natural and specialty food stores and some supermarkets. It usually is made with a glycerin or a…[Read more]

not highest dose necessarily; I would go for 3mgs/kilo and see how that goes & then try diet
in the meantime, it sounds like it’s time to fax the covering GI
THANK him
state current dose
state symptoms
state prevacid 3mgs/kilo (just say prevacid dosing is 1.5mgs- 3mgs per kilo. baby weighs __. So therefore, at 3mgs/kilo he can take __a…[Read more]

hang in there with the diet! it is HARD but I was so glad I did it- I was desperate, & wanted to rule everything out…good news about your upcoming visit w/ a different doctor!

Lucky you with the caracream!!!
We LOVe it!!
Just ask marci-kids/dr philips how to use it- don’t worry about the other stuff

you can split it anywhich way you like
we always gave ‘biggest’ dose at night/evening (so for example 30mgs split into 3 could be 7 + 7 + 16 or, any combination you come up with)hellbennt2007-2-1 21:46:41

we did 3 doses, too…
we ‘played’ around w/ timing & amounts of each dose a lot

umm…get another doctor. no baby should be in pain!
post about pushing for the right dr: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1002

i would be careful of ‘regular’ lunch meats- nitrates, food colorings, etc
ask the meat-counter person what is ‘safe’ at wild oats, trader joes, etc
not sure about honey?…
ps: as you get closer to the dinner, I’ll help you w/ some ideashellbennt2007-1-31 11:21:18

faxing always worked for me- much better than the phone- it’s a way to get your thoughts out clearly & consisely & matter-of-factly. It’s a way to make sure the doctor sees it and you’re not just brushed off by someone in the office. I would simply fax the dr and thank her/him- list all the reasons. Next, you are just going to make statements-…[Read more]

well tomatoes made my ds have bad reflux, so maybe you’re ok with milk proteins and tomato…
maybe it’s not your diet, & it’s the meds that are helping- what dose of PPI for what weight & what form of PPI?

personally, I wouldn’t do CIO until after the antibiotics are done, after the acidopholus is done and then not until after you knw of the crying/needing to nurse is because of reflux…

benedryl is fine
http://www.askdrsears.com (go look under medicine chest or type benedryl in the search box) has all the dosings for all the meds
probiotics that have been recommended by posters here:
Nature’s Way Primadophilus for ChildrenUdo’s Choice kyo-adophoulous Florastor KidsNatrol

more immediate.
maybe right away, maybe a day or 2 (or 3)
YAY!!

there was a mom on here w/ 6 kids (racy, ‘eli’smom’) and her advice is to get a prescription cough medicine for night time- just call (fax) the ped and say how terrible night time is w/ the coughing and how your poor baby isn’t getting any sleep, so please call in a prescription for a cough medicine…they’ll do it (I did this after reading her…[Read more]

you can also strain out the beads from the packet and somehow give just those…I think there’s info about this from ‘Prevacid 101’

go back to the packets & see what happens…
have you eaten anything w/ ‘hidden’ dairy (casen, whey, etc etc)?
hmmm…

maybe it’s the aspertame in the solutabs, but then I’d think if he was so sensitive then he would have reacted to the strawberry flavoring in the packets? hmm…?

in ‘groupie intro’ there’s a link for finding a specialist in your area
there should be some near you?

at 10lbs that’s (divide by 2.2) 4.5 kilos
4.5 x 1.5 (lowest dose that would even maybe do something) = 6.75mgs a day & your baby is getting 7.5 (try splitting it up- babies have fast metabloisms- your baby is probably zipping though the dose?) so it’s not the lowest of the low…
so maybe maybe you’ll see some results with the 7.5mgs… but,…[Read more]

he didn’t start out on the correct dose- my doctor went by prevacid dose being 1.5-3mgs per kilo, so he probably started out on maybe 2mgs per kilo, but his reflux was so bad that we could tell that the PPI was working…he was on zantac and it wasn’t doing anything- I had a shrieking/howling (24/7) baby on my hands who had sandifer symptoms-…[Read more]