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April 7, 2008 at 2:16 pm #50028

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I just joined this forum to see if I could get some input on our problem. My 7 week old started Zantac at about 3.5 weeks of age. It somewhat helped alleviate the crying, back-arching and spit up post breast feeding. I’m also off dairy now because we found that supplementing with regular cow’s milk formula and days when I’d eat a lot of dairy caused major spit up.

But now our problem seems to be that he has intense trouble with pooping. He grunts, cries, wakes up at night and generally has a hard time. He will go for a day or so without pooping and then finally when he does it’s very watery. I think it might burn too…more like diarhea. I’ve done rectal stimulation and suppositories – which work…but I just don’t think this is normal.

Any thoughts on whether this could be caused by the Zantac? Does anyone else have this problem?

April 7, 2008 at 5:54 pm #50041

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My son is having the same problem… he is Tagmet though. I think the are both H2 blockers? It’s a mystery to me what is going on.

April 7, 2008 at 7:10 pm #50045

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from here:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10133&PID=87611#87611 if you scroll to the purple post you’ll find a ph # for la leche league- I’d call-

constipation in a breastfed baby isn’t really ‘constipation’

http://www.kellymom.com is also a great resource

water stools are ‘ok’ as long as they are mustardy & seedy & if there are some pasty ones, too.

frequen green watery stools, that’s another thing.

any chance you have OAL? this is overactive letdown, also known as foremilk/hindmilk imbalance:

What to do about OAL scroll down to the 4th post by Bensmama:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9959

if stools are always watery and never pasty & if they’re more green more often than being mustardy, then perhaps it’s your diet. the most common culprits are milk and soy and this means ALL milk & soy, even hidden, as in hidden ingredients like whey, casin, etc.

it can take up to 2 or even 3 weeks to clear these proteins out of your system/out of your milk and the same amount of time for these proteins to work their way out of baby’s system

Mspi/allergy info(‘main page’): https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&PN=1&TPN=1
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