Losec

[ellasmummy]

Oh awesome thanks heaps for sharing ladies I am really really hanging for the phone call from the chemist to tell me its ready, I'm hoping today instead of tomorrow. Boo for it being so exxy though, pretty sure my health fund lets me claim on some scripts, will have to suss it out

[*Beema*]

The suspension we have is the equivalent of 5mg per 1ml (the equivalent of 1/2 the above tablet of Losec), so if we use the suspension she is on 2ml per dose, morning and night. The suspension allows you to make slight alterations to the dosage that are much more difficult with the tablet, we were able to have DD2 on 1.5ml morning and night (15mg equvalent) for a period of time before we had to increase it back to the 20mg a day.

Generally with Losec if the 20mg a day doesn't work then administering more than that won't help as it is really the limitation of the medication (I am not a Dr, but this is what we have been told by our Paed and GP), all medications have their limitations.

Losec suspension only lasts about 1 month and it needs to be refrigerated all the time.

In addition we have found that using the infant gaviscon with the Losec works best, Losec neutralizes the acids in the stomach so when they do throw up it isn't burning their oesophegas (sp), the Gaviscon is a thickener which makes it heavier to hopefully keep it in the stomach.

After Losec the options are limited to another medication which basically stops the stomach from producing acid (which is a very big step).

I can recommend reading Colic Solved: The Essential Guide to Infant Reflux and the Care of Your Crying, Difficult-To- Soothe Baby By Dr Bryan Vartabedian, don't let the title confuse you it is really about Reflux and a very good read.

Ours is $70 for 100ml (30 days worth) and it's banana flavoured, we can't get anything back from Mutual Community, but hopefully we should at tax time