Reflux & Colic General Chatter & Support

[renzymum]

Hello dragonfly,

well from what i have experienced they can start crying in 1 day, but my baby started from about 2 weeks, although we did not know at the time what it was.
the major signs were if we were holding her and we tried to lie her, either in our hands or on the couch, she would scream. we thought she just wanted to be held but she would also do it if we held her lying down. another one is throwing up a lot and also cat napping during the day.

i have heard that from 6 weeks a child can go through a difficult stage, i know mine did and and then get better again in about a week, i suppose it is like a growing thing. they almost go from a new born to a baby in a way.

well i hope i helped a little, and if you need to know anything else just let me know as i know a lot about reflux. Daniqa is on Losec and 20mg A DAY. it is hard but like everyone says, they do grow out of it. some longer than others though.

good luck
renzy

[Dragonbub]

Thanks Renzy, it is good to know others are out there! It is weird but I feel like I lucked out, ya know? And really, he isn't such a bad bubba. I think I am feeling a bit fragile after the hell week last week. I am scared to go anywhere in case he cries. It is so much easier at home where no one is staring at me and I don't feel like a failure of a mum because I can't quiten my baby.

I wish there was a simple test they could do which told you whether they had reflux or not. That would save giving them medication unnecessarily. Having said that, he does seem to be better with it, so I will keep him on it for a while and see how he goes. I might try a trial period off it in a few months (when I am a bit more together) and see if he is ok off the meds.

It's tough isn't it? My big sis had a horrendous child, screamed all day and night. I just don't know how she did it...

Have a great week everyone

[ozloz]

I'm in desperate need of some help.

My son was diagnosed with Silent Reflux at 7 weeks he is now 4mths old.

Some symptoms... fussiness when feeding, distress during and after feeds, back arching, squirming, coughing, gagging, swallowing when there's nothing there, catnapping during day, happy when elevated...

He was put on Zantac which had an initial effect but then stopped working after 2 weeks so we upped the dose, still no results unfortunately.

At 9 weeks we started him on Losec 5mg a day. This took 7 days to kick in and it coincided with me taking him to sleep school, when he was 11 weeks old. We had 3 days of absolute bliss at sleep school. He would feed, then play (flat on his back on the floor!), then sleep up until his next feed. We also cut out his 3am feed and had a night where he slept through, Bliss! On the fourth day though he woke from a day nap screaming, we gave him Mylanta to settle him. The following day we returned home. I was expecting him to revert back to his old habits a bit, I was told to expect this. So over the next few weeks we would have 3days out of the week where he would be unsettled with reflux or wind and this was ok to deal with as it wasn't every day.

Then over the past three weeks it has been every day. His dose of Losec isn't working anymore and I am really confused because the pead has told me that we can't change the dose of 5mg for quite a while. He told me to introduce rice cereal to see if that would help and I also replaced 2 breastfeeds with thickened formula to see if that would make a difference. But it hasn't. So I have gone back to solely breastfeeding him.

I've made an appointment to see another pead for a second opinion and have an appointment with a gastro in january.

I've tried everything that the pead has recommended and we are still not getting anywhere. From what I've read his dose of Losec seems quite low so I would think that this would be the reason its not working, but the pead doesn't want to put it up. My son now weighs 6kgs.

It's been going on for so long and I'm just so confused.

I'm giving the Lozec by disolving it in water on a spoon. He is pretty good at taking it like this. But I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile trying it as a liquid form?!?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.