can GERD return?!

[Anonymous]

HI Everyone. I must admit it’s been a while since I’ve been on here but I’m so glad to see it’s still available. SO here’s my issue: DD was diagnosed with SR at 4 weeks when she started spitting up blood. We switched from one med to another until we finally settled on 20 mg of prilosec/day which took care of all of her symptoms. BY 9 months old we took her off meds and had a minor week or two of rebound but nothing ever since. She’s almost 15 months now, and the last two weeks she seems to be exhibiting symptoms again!!! At first I thought that her clingyness and constant wining were developmental and I didn’t think much of it. But now her sleep is being effected and last night was the worst. She did the typical screaming in her sleep and from start to finish it took me over 4 hrs to get her to pass out which is completely abnormal. I could hear her refluxing and it was constant. This isn’t happening every night, but maybe 2-3 times a week for the past two or three weeks. She’s gotten tons of teeth and they haven’t been a major issue so I don’t think it’s that. She tested negative for all food allergies back at 4 months of age, but we never tested celiacs.

Anyway, my question for all of you is:

can GERD return FT or is it just episodic due to stress, food, etc?

considering how long she went without symptoms and her age, should I be getting her tested for any other sort of problem?

Is it worth doing a celiacs test?

OK, thanks mamas I really appreciate it!!!

[hellbennt]

allergy testing is not accurate at all until they’re about 18 months old or even older…

what is new in her diet? any new vitamins? toothpaste? anything new?

I’d keep track of what she’s eating and when she has these episodes at night…

do you have any zantac to give her at night? you could give tums, mylanta cherry supreme or even buy pepcid otc, chewables, dissolve 1/2 a tab and give w/ some water…

[Anonymous]

I was wondering about the allergy testing so early -think it’s worth doing again?

As far as what’s new in her diet, the only thing I can think of would be the introduction and significant increase in cow’s milk. We introduced it at one yr, but were cutting it 1/2 and 1/2 with soy based formula, but have since only been giving her the formula before bed to get her through the night. She probably consumes about 32 ounces of cows milk a day (she’s always been heavy on the bottle) so my suspicions lie there. I’ll try cutting it with soy milk and see what happens.

We never had her on Zantac but we did give her some liquid Tagamet last night -although it didn’t seem to do anything. It is quite old however, so it probably doesn’t even work anymore. I gave her a tums before bed tonight, and so far so good -so we’ll see what happens. Is this typical, that GERD can creep back up after months of remission? And how much cherry mylanta do I give? thanks!

[hellbennt]

I think you got it with the cow’s milk..you could go back to the soy formula for a good two weeks and cut out milk and see if sleep improves. If it does, then you’ll know…maybe this post will help?

Milk allergy/night wakings/lLoveMySophia:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forums/topic/found-our-key-finally/#post-46114=

[Anonymous]

Certainly sounds like milk is your issue. You might also have some molar issues going on. Teething and reflux is never pretty but molars and reflux are especially tough.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for this topic the ignorance of medicine is stupefying. what you have is a misaligned atlas vertebra in your upper neck, pressing on your spinal cord, short-circuiting nerves which supply various parts of your body. among them are nerves going to your stomach, cardiac sphincter, and diaphragm. nerve interference causes muscles to become weak and elongated. this weakness at your cardiac sphincter permits stomach acid to reflux up the esophagus. the weakness of the diaphragm is allowing the “rolling” herniation/protrusion of the stomach into the thoracic cavity, also, the diaphragm divides the thoracic from abdominal cavities, and attaches beneath the sternum in front, and to the spine in back. it’s weakness is likely causing the back pain you have there. correct the cause, and stop wasting your time playing with/mickey-mousing the effects. see an hio method upper cervical specific chiropractor.

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