hey there
our bub is 3 weeks old and suffers from reflux originally we changed her formula because she was projectile vomiting every feed.. once we were on the ha - ar formula she stopped and has been on it for almost 2 weeks now with only a couple of feeds being vomited like that... lately shes been having reflux "attacks" each day at around 5pm she gets really bad wet sounding hiccups and is in teriblle pain.. at first we tried infacol because we thought it was just wind (which she also has trouble with) but that didn't help so someone suggested gripe water...
we tried it for the first time yesterday and within minutes she had stopped crying and was happy.. not long after that though she went to sleep and was in really deep sleep, after reading the ingredients dp realised it has alcohol in it and we wondered if that was what made her like that? today after her getting really upset i ended up giving it to her again about an hour after a big chuck again it calmed her down until she was hungry again at which point she fed but only drank 20mls and passed out cold assumably from the medicine... do u think this is halmful for her? the bottle says u can give it 6 times a day to newborns 2.5ml each time and ive only given it once a day so far and would have avoided it today if she wasnt really in pain.. is it deffinately the ethanol causing this sleepy effect or could it be shes just tired from wind and reflux all the time and when she gets releif she falls asleep??? wishful thinking maybe???
thanks in advanced i am really worried and confused...