Need advice

Hi,

I am so sorry your little one is having such troubles! (((HUG))) to you and her both!

It sounds like maybe her coughing might be from the reflux but I can’t say for sure. I know that that is how it is with my children. They rarely suffer from reflux anymore but if they do one of the first symptoms is coughing and the second is restlessness, thrashing, and sometimes crying at night.

How long were you without dairy and soy in your diet? And how strict were you? It takes at least 2 weeks to get dairy and soy completely out of your system, your milk, and your baby’s system. And strict means NO soy or milk what sover. Like, not even a granola bar that has a little whey in it. When my first child has reflux I too was told to avoid dairy but the dr said just mainly fresh stuff and never explained about it taking 2 weeks to see a difference.

At 12 weeks when this was explained to me and my baby was miserable I quit nursing and went to Nutramigen. My baby did wonderful at first but didn’t take long and I could tell we had not gotten to the root of the problem and he still had to be on Prevacid.

Nutramigen has the proteins in it extensively broken down in it but it is still milk based. The proteins in milk and soy can be very difficult for babies to break down.

We have found that probiotics and digestive enzymes really helped alleviate our children’s reflux much better than their antacid meds did. It also has helped with their food intolerances. If they will take one of their probiotic/enzyme pills every time they eat something they hardly ever have any problems. But if I forget to give them one then I’m surprised how fast it can bother them.

When my children are coughing from reflux I will give them one of their pills and it helps them stop coughing quite quickly.

Here’s some info that will explain why the probiotics and enzymes helped my children so much.

The pancreas is what makes digestive enzymes and puts them in our stomach to break down the food we eat. All foods have enzymes in them but anytime a food is cooked or processed it kills the enzymes. With our diets today of mostly cooked and processed foods it’s hard for our pancreas to be able to produce enough enzymes. Without enough enzymes in the stomach to break down the food the only thing our stomach knows to do is produce more acid to try to break it down. Too much acid in the stomach will cause heart burn, acid reflux, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

If a parent has a pancreas that isn’t producing enough enzymes then it is possible that their children can be born with a pancreas that doesn’t work well either. If the mother will take a supplement of enzymes and probiotics while pregnant she will pass these on to her baby and have a baby with a healthy digestive system.

Probiotics are the good, live bacteria that live in our body. One of the things they do is coat and protect our entire digestive tract (and also the ears and nose). When the stomach produces too much acid then it is forced up the esophagus and down the intestines and will kill probiotics. (Antibiotics also kill probiotics.) When the probiotics are depleted then the acid is traveling right up next to the , throat, esophagus and intestines with no protection. This can cause them to get raw, inflamed, and even bleed sometimes.

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When my children have a cough other than from reflux I find that Hyland’s brand “Nighttime Cold and Cough 4 Kids” works really well. I found it first at a health food store but then later found it at Walmart. I thinks its just natural homeopathic stuff but really helps.

I hope you can find some answers and relief soon!!

Hi again! I answered your other post-

any updates?