My son was diagnosed by accident. We had problems feeding him from the start. Being in incredible pain during and after each feed. It was nothing short than a nightmare. People kept saying, babies cry, everyone goes through this, its normal. But in my heart I knew it was not. Anyway we were at the Peadi to check JD's enlarged kidneys and it was feed time. JD did the usual thrashing around and screaming. After a few minutes the Dr said, nope this is not normal he has reflux. We put him on Zantac and AR formula. And although he still had the reflux at least the Zantac reduced the acid in his tummy so it didn't burn him on the way up. With permission from the Peadi we started him on solids at 3.5 months and he has been thriving ever since. Now he is off the Zantac, but the transition to Step 2 formula is proving to be difficult as he is used to the very thick AR formula. Will see how we go.
Hi, my now 2yo son was first diagnosed with silent reflux when he was a newborn. We tried 5 different formulas before getting the right one for him. He was also put on Losec, but I was in 2 minds as to whether that helped or if he just grew out of it, as by 4 months it was gone..... or so we thought.
Almost 2 years later and he has now just been diagnosed with severe reflux, which it turns out was never gone in the first place! He's had a persistent cough since birth, and it took 2 years for anyone to believe me that this wasn't normal! So now he's back on the Losec, which is helping his reflux, but giving him terrible wind and constipation. I really don't know which is worse!!
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