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August 19, 2008 at 10:28 pm #55485
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InactiveThanks for everyone that replied on my last post.
My daughter who is 4 month tomorrow, on feeding strike again.
We started zantac 2 weeks ago, I don’t know if zantac still working on her.
Anyway, should I ask her doc prilosec or prevacid?
which one work better?
Thank you so much!
and is prilosec and prevacid weight sensitive too?
and how to admisnistered this?
Is taste horrible too? my daughter hates zantac, she always crying when I give her this!August 20, 2008 at 10:39 am #55491InactivePrevacid. Its strawberry flavored and yummy. The solutabs are easy to administer. You must give them 30-60 minutes before meals and on an empty stomach. Once you get the hang of that, its really easy.
Push for a high dose of Prevacid. It will make a world of difference, I promise! Here is some dosing info:Good luck!!August 20, 2008 at 12:47 pm #55493InactiveI would do prevacaid as well. We do Prilosec but only becasue we have to get it compounded to go in Jedd’s tube. When he is able to take textures we may switch to prevacai to get him completely oral.
They are not as weight sensitive as teh Zantac. and bTW zantac taste horrid. Have you tasted it??? It’s pretty bad. I woudln’t blame her for crying after taking it….Good luck.August 20, 2008 at 1:30 pm #55495Inactivethank you!
she’s on feeding strike again for the second time….
I don’t know what I should do!
But thank you for the help!August 20, 2008 at 8:07 pm #55530hellbennt
KeymasterI vote for caracream. you use either prilosec or prevacid. I’d go for the prevacid, only bcse most babies seem to ‘start’ with prilosec & then wind up with prevacid. that was us. we used caracream with both:
August 20, 2008 at 8:31 pm #55532InactiveWe had amazing success on Prevacid.
I hope you can get the marci-kids dose, it should help with the feeding aversion. Good luck!jilly782008-08-20 20:34:35August 21, 2008 at 11:33 am #55551InactiveCaraCream (aka buffer babies) with prevacid… prilosec tastes TERRIBLE (Honestly, I tasted it and thought I would vomit from the bitterness even after a chaser. Prevacid is not bitter- neither the solutabs or even the capsules.) HTH. Also, prevacid worked much better for my lo, prilosec did nothing for her, especially if compounded!
August 21, 2008 at 1:37 pm #55560Inactivecan anyone help me?
how much my daughter should take if she weight 15-16lbs?August 21, 2008 at 3:29 pm #55563InactiveTo reply to your pm:
How much to give is hard to say. You’ll have to look it up on the marci-kids website and I don’t have the new address. Most people have had good results with 30mg split into 2 or 3 doses, but as I said, I don’t know for your baby’s weight.About the different forms- the Prevacid solutab is the strawberry flavoured. It’s delayed release, so you have to give it timed around feedings… on an empty stomach and then followed up with a meal 30-45 minutes later. It’s easy to give in that it tastes good, if the dose is high enough, most people have good success if they can time it around the feedings.With the CaraCream/BufferBabies (same thing, I think, new name)- you use the prevacid or prilosec capsules and compound it at home. It makes it immediate release so you don’t have to time it around meals. Give it whenever, however. You get the capsules and break it into a suspension, and mix at home. It creates a stable compound that works. It tastes much better with prevacid, as prevacid itself tastes better. Again, the dose has to be right.With the prevacid/prilosec compounds- These can be made, but I personally don’t recommend it. We had very bad luck with these as few pharmacies know how to make them correctly. Even when our dose was high enough, it didn’t work. When we finally got it made close to correctly, it tasted SO Bad, because of the high salt content needed to keep it stable.Which form of med to go with is a personal choice. Your pm sounded as if you were confused why people would recommend different things. People recommend what worked for them. You can try the solutab and see if that works for you. If it’s too hard to time around meals, then you might want to try CaraCream with prevacid (you get the script for the prevacid capsules, and then add it to the base which you order directly from marci-kids).If you decide to try CaraCream, I’d post about it to ask others on this site. I don’t come on very often anymore, and I’ve read that things have changed about the item and process… maybe a different name, taste, ordering etc. Since I’m out of the loop, best to ask others who know more.The most important thing IMO is to get the dose right, and then to make sure that you’re giving it right for your type.Good luck.August 21, 2008 at 3:50 pm #55567Inactives&h’s mum wrote: CaraCream (aka buffer babies) with prevacid… prilosec tastes TERRIBLE (Honestly, I tasted it and thought I would vomit from the bitterness even after a chaser. Prevacid is not bitter- neither the solutabs or even the capsules.) HTH. Also, prevacid worked much better for my lo, prilosec did nothing for her, especially if compounded!
It all depend on where the compound is made.We get Jedd made at a local children’s hospital and they do great. It last about 1.5 months. His reflux is totally under control while on a comounded dose of prilosec.August 21, 2008 at 4:13 pm #55568InactiveI’m glad that it works for your son. Does he take it by tube, or orally? If orally, I’m surprised that he can stomach it. It tastes awful when made properly.
From everything that I’ve read on this site and from other sources, even a properly made prilosec suspension (which is very hard to do) does not last longer than 1 month when refrigerated. Most actually only last 2 weeks. Prevacid at the most lasts only 2 weeks if refrigerated.We went down a long road trying to get things done correctly. We tried many pharmacies. Even good ones told us that they were doing it correctly. No one ever did it like marci-kids asked, even though they swore they were. When I asked for the printout of ingredients, I saw that they were adding in other ingredients that were not on the list to help with the taste. They said it didn’t matter.
Even when Hailey was on it, she was a bit better, but her feeding never improved. She always had feeding problems. Partly these had already developed and couldn’t be changed by a PPI alone, but when I switched to the prevacid in CaraCream, I realized what a big difference it was from the compound. I didn’t know how much better things could be for her until then. The feeding issues needed therapy to resolve, though.August 21, 2008 at 5:51 pm #55569InactiveI’ll ask her ped for prevacid, thx so much!
and i’m planning to use the similac rs, has anyone recommend this formula?
my daughter doesn’t have allergy on milk/soy but she spitting up so much since feeding strike.
she spit up more on breastmilk… -
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