Losec

Hi all

Just after some advice about losec. When my daughter initially started taking it (compounded syrup) she was fine but the last couple of batches she's absolutely hated it. She spits it out before we even have a chance to get it into her mouth and the reflux is starting to become a problem again. The chemist said that the compounding process makes it salty and thats probably why she wont swallow it.

Does anyone know whether it would be OK to mix it into her bottle??? and/or whether that might have any effect on how it works. Thats the only thing I can think of which will give us a chance of her keeping any of it down.

Thanks xx

Did you change pharmacies? Ours is very salty but they add a flavour to ours which makes it tolerable, I have tried one that had no flavouring and it was foul, I would have spat it out too.

The flavour though makes it less stable.

It is not ideal to mix in a bottle, for two reasons, one if she does not drink it all she isn't getting the whole amount.

The other is if you start adding it to the bottle, it may change the taste and she may stop wanting to drink the milk cause she associates it with the taste of the med, even without the med in it, it will be hard for her to realise that there is no 'bad taste' anymore.

With giving the med, if they are fussy about it, you can put them on a change table, hold her arms with your forearm, and with your hands squeeze her cheeks, then with the other hand administer it, if you get a small syringe like a 1ml syringe you can get it quite far back and trickle it in. Generally if you can get it in for a little while, then they do get used to it again.

The other idea would be to split it am and pm so there is less to give.

If she takes a dummy, you could also get one of those medicine dummies, she may suck it down before she realises it has meds in it.

Thanks Scarlett.

Mikayla is meant to have 7ml a day so I split it into 2 doses of 3.5ml am & pm. I tried mixing it into her bottle once and she didnt seem to notice but like you said she may not get the full dose if she doesnt drink the entire bottle. I've never heard of the medicine dummies - do you get those from a pharmacy??

We've tried holding her down and putting the syringe as far back as we can but she cried so hard she chokes and it just breaks my heart to hear her scream the way she does.

I might speak to the pharmacist about the flavouring though it might make the difference between her spitting it out and tolerating it.

Thanks again xx

The dummies I think you can get from the pharmacy, but I think Target or K mart have them also, I think Tommy Tippee? It is hard to see them choking on it, I am just glad Parker is older now and used to taking the vile stuff LOL

If you flavour it, just check on the stability, you may find you need to get a new bottle sooner than the usual one, I get mine compounded every two weeks.

Thanks scarlet. Are there any visible signs of instability in the syrup or do you just get a new batch just in case?

For us, the colour goes a little darker, it is a light pink colour. But we would notice somewhere between 11-18 days, that the symptoms come back slowly, so he will hiccup, or urp, or just be a pain, so we will get it reflilled and the next day he is totally better... Just keep an eye out.