At what age was your baby diagnosed with reflux?

[alexandraLouis]

My baby Caroline was diagnosed with Reflux at three weeks. She basically had what looked like a fit and we took her to the hospital. The froth at her mouth turned out to be stomach acid that had come up. She had thrown her head back, back arched and arms rigid. It was just after a feed. She was hard to feed, typically taking only half and either throwing up or it being in her throat - silent reflux.

We started off on Gaviscon, then ranitidine (which helped a bit but not 100% better) and now losec. It's only been too days on Losec and I'm finding it really hard. She seems to have gone backwards with the Losec. I know it takes a while to kick in, but it's so hard watching her suffer. I'm praying that it'll start to work sooner than the five days the doctor said. I'm keeping her upright during and half an hour to 45 mins after feeds and she's sleeping on an angle.

I feel quite exhausted as Caroline in a twin and her sister Olivia is suffering from evening colic. I'm a new mum and six weeks in.

How long will I have to wait before she starts to feel better? Any advice and tips would be great!

Alex

[Angela Skinner]

Hello

We noticed a change around 3-4 weeks but she wasnt correctly diagnosed until around 5-6 weeks. Hang in there it does take a while to get the doseage correct, my baby girl had it really bad so her medication went up and up but over a month until she was on a adult dose of losec. Just remember that as they put weight on the doseage may need to be increased. Best thing to get is a baby pouch ( Baby Born) to get you through she slept in this most of the day as I couldnt put her down as the same she would do the same as your baby. Dont worry about the baby getting used to it once you get the doseage correct and baby more settled then you can start to get into a better routine with sleep. I found the Gaviscon hopeless, she went onto the Karicare HA\A1 which has a thickner in it thats if your baby is been bottle feed. You should also try a baby chiropracter since seeing one her medication has reduced to more than half over a few months. Hope this helps I know its hard and it puts alot of stress on you and your partner , and some people just dont understand what your going through just do whats right for your baby . Good Luck

[alexandraLouis]

Thanks for that! We'll keep going and take your advice on the baby carrier!

[Livinthedream]

My Lil Man was diagnosed at 6 weeks. He was arching his back and screaming during feeds, all the usual stuff. I had put him on HA/AR formula and he improved a little, it certainly stopped his spewing, but he was still uncomfy so we put him on on Losec. Well that combined with the AR formula was a disaster for us, the losec slowed his digestion down and combined with the thickened formula, just made the feed sit in his belly like a brick.
I switched him to goats milk formula and that seemed to make things a bit better (but now his spew is soo cheesy smelling)
The big clincher for us was the osteopath. After the first treatment, the difference was amazing, and it was instant. She also put him on a pro biotic to help with his digestion.
I have forgotten to give him his losec on several occassions now and it makes no difference, he is fine.
Having said all of that, he wasnt as bad as some of you have described your kids.
But apart from 60 bucks, I had nothing to loose with the osteo, and even better, they say you only need around 6 treatments, so its not like you are shelling out for ages.
Good Luck

[puppies]

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.

[KarenHawe]

My baby Caroline was diagnosed with Reflux at three weeks. She basically had what looked like a fit and we took her to the hospital. The froth at her mouth turned out to be stomach acid that had come up. She had thrown her head back, back arched and arms rigid. It was just after a feed. She was hard to feed, typically taking only half and either throwing up or it being in her throat - silent reflux.

We started off on Gaviscon, then ranitidine (which helped a bit but not 100% better) and now losec. It's only been too days on Losec and I'm finding it really hard. She seems to have gone backwards with the Losec. I know it takes a while to kick in, but it's so hard watching her suffer. I'm praying that it'll start to work sooner than the five days the doctor said. I'm keeping her upright during and half an hour to 45 mins after feeds and she's sleeping on an angle.

I feel quite exhausted as Caroline in a twin and her sister Olivia is suffering from evening colic. I'm a new mum and six weeks in.

How long will I have to wait before she starts to feel better? Any advice and tips would be great!

Alex

I totally understand how you feel, my baby Alana was diagnosed at 4 weeks after what seemed like weeks of crying... We started on changing the formula 4 times and finally settled on Nutramigen 1 which has helped her really bad wind. Also she takes Carabel a thickener to the milk to make it more difficult to reflux up, which when we started looked like it was a miracle cure. After a week or so of using it the effect seemed to wear off as with all the meds. The paed then said to try Ranitidine, Alana went mad when I gave it to her so after the first two days i gave up as it was just too distressing. We are now on Losec, Carabel and Nuramigen 1 food. We only started the Losec on Friday and I cannot believe that paeds are actually prescribing this for babies. It is so hard to give it to her, im gonna ask for the suspension. We tried giving it to her through a syringe but the sediment stuck in the bottom. We tried mixing it with a bit of the milk to which she spat out, and then threw up her whole bottle. This morning we tried dissolving it on the spoon which seemed to work as you can at least see what she is getting. She is much more content today, yesterday I spent the whole day crying as I just could not see any light at the end of the tunnel. Looks like we are all in the same boat...