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ar will not work if your child is on a reflux medication: here is the article, which refers to stomach ph levels:

“There is a formula that tries to address issues surrounding reflux
called Enfamil AR. It has rice starch that curdles when it hits the low
pH of the stomach making it less likely for reflux to occur. However,
if your child is on Zantac, then the stomach pH isn’t low, so the
Enfamil AR won’t work.”

the link:

http://parenting.ivillage.com/baby/bhealth/0,,bt5s,00.html

its really unfortunate that your ped wont listen to the marci kids info. its obvious that your daughter needs her dose increased.

also, it sounds like shes constipated, soy can do that sometimes. you may want to add a teaspoon of dark karo syrup into her bottles.

I have a ped GI in the Chicago IL area. She was recommended to me by Dr Phillips-the professor at marci-kids. her name is Dr Barbara Kirschner-she is at the university of Chicago i believe it is-i was there a while ago with my son.

I hope you can get her to another gi. This one seems arrogant and you’ll never get anywhere with him.

I sure feel for you. My first refluxer never got relief until she finally outgrew it at 9 months of age. It was horrible to say the least. And I had to fight months to get the high dose of Prevacid Myles needed, but it was so worth it because 10 days after he started the marci-kids dose he was a new baby.

I wish you the best and hope you can get an appt with Dr. Kirschner very soon. If the wait is long ask to be put on the cancellation list and maybe take your son to your family doctor in the meantime. Some of us (including myself) have had the best luck getting adequte PPI dosing from family docs. They seem to know more about reflux and reflux meds since they see it in their adult patients all the time and I think they are more sympathetic about how painful it is because they hear their adult patients complain about the pain. Sometimes peds are so insensitive and ped gi’s are so insensitive. Maybe because a baby can’t tell them how bad it hurts.

Good luck and please keep us posted.