Anyones child on Hyoscyamine drops?

OK – i had never heard of this so checked it out – same thing as Levsin – if you go to parent-2-parent.com/forum…. there are some babies there on this medication but i have no idea what it is for (although for some reason i thought that it was given to motility kids??). Don’t recall anyone here who uses it.

it’s catergorized as a anticholinergenic. if you have time to look that word up. i remember it from nursing school but forgot what it actually means. i think it has properties that dry up the system. oh my god i have to get back to work i am starting to forget things!!! what a great nurse i am going to be

this was posted once on the yahoo breastfeedingreflux board:

what’s the connection between gas and reflux?

Gas is created when something isn’t digested properly; for example,
beans are generally harder to digest than other foods, which is why
they are notorious for causing gas in most people (they are generally
not a common problem with breastfed babies through mom’s milk, though;
this is just a common example to help make sense.)

Also, gas puts pressure on the esophageal sphincter (the muscle at the
top of the stomach that helps move and keep things down), making it
easier for whatever is in the stomach to be refluxed.

We were also RX’d Levsin drops when we had Alexis also diagnosised with colic. We realized that was not here problem since the drops worked only a little with her gas but she would still cry with bottles and always brings in legs up to her chest screaming all day not just a certain time period throughout the day she also did it in her sleep which to me was a sign that there was something else going on. I would also feel her stomach and she did not seem that gassy to be in so much pain so I insisted there was something else going on. For poor Alexis it took us until she was 3 months to start her on reflux meds. With Taylor she does have a lot of GI issues esp with gas but they are mostly due to food allergies the Levsin drops do work her on they calm her down and she is able to pass gas. We actually found that Cocyntal drops which are homepathic work so much better on her gas, it calms her down right away and she passes the gas almost immediately.

You can find the Cocyntal at Whole Foods or you can order them online. They come in a box of 30 single dose vials you just tear off the top and give it directly in the mouth. Very simple and Taylor seems to respond to it very well. You can give up to 3 doses if needed at one time meaning give 1 dose if it doesn’t work wait 15 mins give another etc. But there is no max amt you can give in 1 day period.