Anemia?

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am new here. I have a 22 month old girl who was diagnosed with reflux when she was 4 weeks. She has been on Zantac since then. She was also on Domperidone from 6 weeks until a few months ago. She had failure to thrive and a few stays in hospital but the medicine has really kept things under control. We are going to try and wait until she is 2 1/2 before we go back to the GI.

A few months ago she was tested for celiac disease as her weight gain has slowed considerably again. Her ferritin levels came back low so her ped. put her on iron as a precaution. After a month she was retested for anemia and it was still positive with only a slight increase in ferritin. The ped. said to do another month of the iron. He doesn’t seem very concerned and I trust him greatly. He’s always taken great care of Ella.

Sorry for the terribly long post… I guess I am concerned that her reflux and anemia are related. But if she has been on zantac for sooo long, the chances of esophagitis are pretty slim, no? The thing is her iron intake dietary wise has been great! Lot’s of red meat, beans, still eats a ton of baby cereal each morning…

Any thoughts? Anyone else know of a link between reflux and anemia or is it just coincidence?

Thanks!

Sharon

[Anonymous]

There was a recent thread about this. I’ll try to find it for you.

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6274&a mp;KW=anemia&PN=0&TPN=1

I hope that helps some. I don’t know much at all about this topic. Hopefully some of the other moms can give you some advice.

Oh, and welcome! Glad you found us.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Christine! I appreciate it.

I guess my main concern is if esophagitis is still possible when she has been on medicine for so long…

I’m glad to be here! I should go to the introduction forum and introduce myself properly I suppose.

Sharon

[Anonymous]

your daughter is too young for a celiac test to be accurate. my baby was anemic because she had such bad esophagitis, but once she had surgery, her anemia cleared up without ever giving her iron.

what were her hospital stays for?

[Anonymous]

Hi again,

They never really knew, the first time was when her reflux was diagnosed and she was started on zantac and given some fluids. We had taken her to emergency as she was screaming 18 hours a day, vomiting constantly and was skin and bones despite eating all the time. We didn’t understand what was happening. We were then referred to a paediatrician (how it works in Canada) The second time was about two weeks later she was still losing weight and was running a fever of 40.2 (104 or so) She was in for five days while they tested everything. They found a little bit of pneumonia, a little bit of UTI and that’s about it. That is when she was started on domperidone which worked a treat I must say…

That’s interesting about the age thing with celiac testing. What age does it become acurate?

I suppose I should add she has been getting these tiny spots that her Paed. said were probably related to her mast cells. We recently tried to wean the zantac and apparently it’s an antihistamine? So I wonder if this is something else pointing to allergies…

Sharon

[Anonymous]

tiny spots?? what color are they and where are they?

zantac isn’t an antihistamine, it is an H2 blocker.

the celiac tests start to be more accurate around 3 years of age.

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