LO had been diagnosed with silent reflux, hence my nonexistence on the board recently. Anyone else going through this? I'm exhausted and heartbroken for her everyday. Any stm have tips or tricks? I feel so helpless.
Post by seannemairi on Jul 29, 2015 22:03:59 GMT -5
Mine has reflux that had turned into silent reflux. She was prescribed zantac but all that does is supposedly take away the pain associated with it but doesn't help the reflux itself. It made her vomit profusely after every meal. Like big girl vomit, not spit up. So we stopped giving it to her. I feed her less but more frequently now, make sure she stays elevated for at least 30 minutes after feeds, lots of burping, and she sleeps in a rock n play as per my pediatrician. There's not much you can do aside from medicating them. I'm not entirely comfortable with reflux medicine for babies but you gotta do what you gotta do. Good luck mama, I know how how feel.
All 3 of mine have had reflux. DSs is not as bad as my girls had it.
Are you nursing? Limiting or cutting out dairy and/or soy might help. It did nothing for my DD1 (who had it the worst of all 3). Definitely helped my DD2 and has seemed to help DS.
Have you tried meds? They don't help the reflux, but they should help with the pain.
Otherwise, lots of burping and staying upright for a while after eating.
Post by paintdadanta on Jul 30, 2015 3:23:19 GMT -5
Not sure about silent reflux, but DS was given Zantac for reflux which has been helping immensely. It doesn't help with excessive spit up but curbed the projectile vomiting and spit as well as the painful arching and crying. The only other thing we've found to help is gripe water (only works for small amount of time) and to push his legs into his stomach so that he's in a ball (we usually just lay down with him and pull him into us to do this).
S has it. She was prescribed Zantac and we switched her to the sensitive formula. It seems to be helping, but we still have to do a lot of bouncing and swaying around the house.
What's her symptoms of silent reflux look like? Sometimes I wonder if my baby girl has that.
DSs is mostly silent. Basically he is pretty fussy for a while after eating and we can hear like a gurgling/gagging and then a bunch of swallowing, like he's trying to swallow back the spit up, then he gets mad and cries, I assume because it hurts. That happens a few times after he eats. If we lay him flat too soon he will usually spit up. He's had a few projectile episodes. Those have gotten better since I cut almost all dairy.
Zach was diagnosed with reflux, but not silent reflux. I just looked it up though and most of his symptoms match up - loud breathing, coughing, excessive spit up, cough, low weight gain. He doesn't really fuss about it. His has been a roller coaster where some days it's great and some days it's like he throws up entire feedings. I thought the medicine was helping with the vomit, but when I looked into it further, I found its not made for that so I took him off and he had no vomiting for several days after that. I think the hardest part is that he's not gaining weight and there are so many variables. We've been given tons of tips and tricks to try, but nothing works consistently and some days he's just better on his own than others. That makes it really hard to figure out what's helping and what's not. The biggest thing we've been working on is my overactive letdown and that seems to have made the biggest difference long term with the vomiting. It's not projectile and the volume has gone down. I'm not sure why his weight gain is still sluggish/ nonexistent, though.
Post by PurpleIris on Jul 30, 2015 11:00:05 GMT -5
How soon after a spit up are you guys feeding again? We have spit ups during feedings and between, and she starts acting hungry again. Not sure if we're moving into the silent reflux stage too (4 weeks tomorrow; my son had it and took Zantac, which didn't seem to do much).
How soon after a spit up are you guys feeding again? We have spit ups during feedings and between, and she starts acting hungry again. Not sure if we're moving into the silent reflux stage too (4 weeks tomorrow; my son had it and took Zantac, which didn't seem to do much).
If he's upset, I let him comfort nurse as soon as I know he's done throwing up. I started that after I found out that they cry because it burns their throat and swallowing again soothes it. I try not to give him too much so he doesn't throw up again, but I just kind of gauge how much he had pre-vomit.
I couldn't breastfeed so now she is on gerber soothe. The similac alimentum made her way worse. Pedi just started having us add rice cereal to her bottles and i actually had a baby that slept. It was amazing. She ate every 3 hours and aftetr a half hour upright she fell asleep and went right i to her rock and play. We are currently doing prilosec and gripe water for the last 7 days so hopefully things are working. This has been the hardest 5 weeks of my life. Watching my sweet girl in so much pain. Thanks for the support ladies. It's a terrible thing but it helps to know other mommas made it through with healthy little ones
Post by PurpleIris on Jul 31, 2015 11:00:11 GMT -5
amber311, we switched to Enfamil AR ("added rice") formula yesterday, it's a thicker formula that's supposed to reduce spit up, kind of similar to adding rice cereal, though I think they use rice starch. I'm doing 50/50 with that and Enfamil Newborn. It's definitely made a difference in the amount of spit up, and I don't hear the gurgling in the back of her throat any more. Hope you guys continue to do well.
amber311, we switched to Enfamil AR ("added rice") formula yesterday, it's a thicker formula that's supposed to reduce spit up, kind of similar to adding rice cereal, though I think they use rice starch. I'm doing 50/50 with that and Enfamil Newborn. It's definitely made a difference in the amount of spit up, and I don't hear the gurgling in the back of her throat any more. Hope you guys continue to do well.
I was thinking of trying that but everything makes her terribly gassy. The enfamil newborn made her tummy so distended she looked like Buddha
My little guy has silent reflux that turned into super spit-up. He also has a severe milk/soy protein intolerance - apparently the two can often go hand-in-hand. We had to switch him to an elemental formula (Elecare), because he was having bloody diapers from Nutramigen. Getting the right formula (finally) has helped a LOT with his reflux, but he still has some issues because his current formula is so thin.
We've had to do multiple things to try and help: pedi prescribed Zantac to help with the pain associated with the reflux (LO is still a spitter, though, meds just help with the discomfort), we elevate the crib mattress about 30 degrees or let him sleep in his rock & play, we add 2 tsp of baby oat cereal to his 4 oz bottles to thicken it up and help it stay down (pedi GI recommended 1 tsp baby cereal per oz of formula, but I use half and it's plenty for LO), and we burp him every 2 oz during a feeding and keep him upright for at least 15 mins after each meal/snack. Sometimes, LO also does the "snacking" thing and will eat 2-3 oz closer together instead of his usual 4-5 oz every 3-4 hours. Apparently smaller, more frequent feedings can help some with reflux discomfort.
I hope your LO continues to do better! Reflux can be incredibly frustrating!!
Post by holliberry28 on Sept 4, 2015 9:53:56 GMT -5
Can I revive this thread instead of starting a new one? How are your Los doing with their reflux now?
I'm pretty sure M has it because he only cries after eating 1-2 oz and it takes a much longer time now to encourage him to finish a 4 oz bottle. Other than that, he seems fine. Spits up a little but nothing crazy. The nutramigen is giving me liquidy poops but we were told to stick with it for at least a week. I miss the Gerber Gentle- I think he really liked it before the reflux?! starting bothering him.
I read that sometimes reflux gets worse at 3 months because that's how long it takes to irritate the esophagus? We are gonna try Zantac in 3 days if the Nutramigen doesn't work and go back to Gerber Gentle or Soothe.
Also we switched to level 2 nipples. Hoping he gets less frustrated and suck less hard than the level 1 with the Dr. Brown bottles. I tried in vane to search the board for the thread that people discussed their favorite bottles. Thanks guys...
Lily is still struggling. We go to the GI doc for a consult on Tuesday. We currently are doing Gerber Soothe 4oz with 5 tsp rice cereal every 3-5 hours. We use Dr. Browns bottles with the y cut nipples. She is on 6mg of prilosec every day. She is just over 13lbs and 2.5 months old. She has silent reflux so she doesn't spit up often but it's horrible at night to watch her struggle as you can hear it come up. It has gotten better. She is at least sleeping good stretches at night. I'm hoping the appt tomorrow will find a better solution and help my baby. Fucking sucks.
DD1 had silent reflux and DS has it to a much milder degree. Since we BF Im no help in the formula/ bottle dept but we have seen a big improvement with giving him an infant probiotic every other day, its pricey but worth it. Other than that lots of hugs of commiseration Mamas!
Can I revive this thread instead of starting a new one? How are your Los doing with their reflux now?
I'm pretty sure M has it because he only cries after eating 1-2 oz and it takes a much longer time now to encourage him to finish a 4 oz bottle. Other than that, he seems fine. Spits up a little but nothing crazy. The nutramigen is giving me liquidy poops but we were told to stick with it for at least a week. I miss the Gerber Gentle- I think he really liked it before the reflux?! starting bothering him.
I read that sometimes reflux gets worse at 3 months because that's how long it takes to irritate the esophagus? We are gonna try Zantac in 3 days if the Nutramigen doesn't work and go back to Gerber Gentle or Soothe.
Also we switched to level 2 nipples. Hoping he gets less frustrated and suck less hard than the level 1 with the Dr. Brown bottles. I tried in vane to search the board for the thread that people discussed their favorite bottles. Thanks guys...
How has M been doing on the Nutramigen? O has liquidy poops on it too which makes for lots of blow-outs, unfortunately. Have you started the Zantac?
O is currently taking 1ml of Zantac twice a day. We tried Prilosec for several days, but it made her so fussy so I took her off of it and went back the the Zantac. The last 3 days the spit up has been horrible. This morning I went through 4 bibs in 1 hour. Starting today she has been fussy with feedings and hasn't been eating her normal 4 oz. She's also been falling asleep during feeding, so I don't know if these are reflux symptoms, or if we need to go to size 2 nipples? She's 3 months today. I'm going to call the dr tomorrow. I might give the Prilosec a second try. She has always spit up, but the volume has increased so much within the last few days.
Post by holliberry28 on Sept 7, 2015 20:30:25 GMT -5
Our doctor prescribed 0.4 ml of zantac every 8 hours. It's too soon to see if it's helped but he's crying a bit less during feeds. He's been on the zantac for 2 days now.
shahoi, he definitely poops more often and its sometimes liquidy but I don't know if it's helping. It's been about 5 days on the Nutramigen and I don't know if it's that much better than Gerber! I wish I knew what to do...
Lily is still struggling. We go to the GI doc for a consult on Tuesday. We currently are doing Gerber Soothe 4oz with 5 tsp rice cereal every 3-5 hours. We use Dr. Browns bottles with the y cut nipples. She is on 6mg of prilosec every day. She is just over 13lbs and 2.5 months old. She has silent reflux so she doesn't spit up often but it's horrible at night to watch her struggle as you can hear it come up. It has gotten better. She is at least sleeping good stretches at night. I'm hoping the appt tomorrow will find a better solution and help my baby. Fucking sucks.
I hope she feels better soon too. At least she is a good weight! Do you weight 3-5 hours based on when she seems hungry? I get nervous if M doesn't have at least 20 oz a day, but 2.5 per lb seems excessive to me, that would be 13 x 2.5= 32.5... What baby should eat that much?! Or maybe they should? I don't know.
Lily is still struggling. We go to the GI doc for a consult on Tuesday. We currently are doing Gerber Soothe 4oz with 5 tsp rice cereal every 3-5 hours. We use Dr. Browns bottles with the y cut nipples. She is on 6mg of prilosec every day. She is just over 13lbs and 2.5 months old. She has silent reflux so she doesn't spit up often but it's horrible at night to watch her struggle as you can hear it come up. It has gotten better. She is at least sleeping good stretches at night. I'm hoping the appt tomorrow will find a better solution and help my baby. Fucking sucks.
I'm so sorry for Miss Lily. Do you give her Prilosec dose all at once, or is it 2 times a day? O's dose was 1 tsp (5ml) once a day. It just seemed like so much all at one time.
Lily is still struggling. We go to the GI doc for a consult on Tuesday. We currently are doing Gerber Soothe 4oz with 5 tsp rice cereal every 3-5 hours. We use Dr. Browns bottles with the y cut nipples. She is on 6mg of prilosec every day. She is just over 13lbs and 2.5 months old. She has silent reflux so she doesn't spit up often but it's horrible at night to watch her struggle as you can hear it come up. It has gotten better. She is at least sleeping good stretches at night. I'm hoping the appt tomorrow will find a better solution and help my baby. Fucking sucks.
I hope she feels better soon too. At least she is a good weight! Do you weight 3-5 hours based on when she seems hungry? I get nervous if M doesn't have at least 20 oz a day, but 2.5 per lb seems excessive to me, that would be 13 x 2.5= 32.5... What baby should eat that much?! Or maybe they should? I don't know.
Wow, that is alot! O only has between 20-24 oz a day. And she has been gaining weight just fine
I have this awesome app that keeps track of her feedings (I'm an ocd ftm and nurse...lord help this poor baby!) She averages about 652ml per day which is about 22oz and is gaining weight beautifully on the 85% curve which I am so grateful for. She would never be able to handle that 2.5oz per lb...she would drown herself! I wait for hunger cues for her. Only time she goes over the 5 hours is if she sleeps well at night but most of the time it's about 3.5 hours. We do the prilosec in one dose at night. I have heard splitting the dose can help but Lily is worse at night so MD had us try that. Lily takes 3 tsps but our concentration is 2mg/ml so 6mg daily.
Post by paintdadanta on Sept 8, 2015 7:51:39 GMT -5
We were told that Zantac is dosed based on weight and before DS 2mo appointment his reflux was creeping back. They upped the dose to match his current weight and went away again.
M is taking 1.25 ml of omeprazole every morning. I give it to her first thing after her 6-8 hour stretch, then wait 30 min to feed. It seems to bd helping a whole lot.
M is taking 1.25 ml of omeprazole every morning. I give it to her first thing after her 6-8 hour stretch, then wait 30 min to feed. It seems to bd helping a whole lot.
Did you go straight to the Prilosec or start zantac first? I wonder why my doctor has us splitting the dosage in 3? @lristenflickk, is your LO still on Gerber?
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