I have this nifty little program on my PDA which tells you the dosage amounts for every medication that the doctors go by. Zantac IS 4mg-10mg/kg and the MAX DOSE for Prevacid despite weight or the diagnoses is 30mg.
Most people will have a hard time getting their doctors on board with the marci-kids because there isn’t any real pediatric testing or statistics proving that children under 12 have any long term effects from higher than *normal* doses of Prevacid. And the doctors/GI’s do not want to be held responsible if something should occur in the infants health that is found to be caused by higher than *normal* doses.
You can always take the route I had to take….hehehe I have a mother in law that is a family/medical lawyer and she wrote up a release form and had it noterized saying that I would not hold any of the medical staff at providence accountable if long term effects should arise from putting him on a higher than *normal* dose. BUT she aslo made it clear that if my son should develope a worse condition I.E. Barretts Espohagas because they have failed to treat my son accordingly then they would be held responsible for all my medical fees.
My doctor signed the release form and I got what I wanted.
I also did the same thing to my GI who refused to do further testing, because my baby seemed to have more intestinal issues I.E. Chronic diarreah and other problems. She made it clear that if he did not do the further testing and we got a GI who would do the testing, and something abnormal came up, then he would be held accountable for paying all my medical bills for the treatment he provided and the treatment that the new doctor provided……..He signed the form, and im getting the testing I wanted Conner to recieve.
The point here is…..You sometimes have got to be overwhelmingly(sp) pushy. God gave us the gift of being the worlds biggest b!tch at times, and we have every right to use that gift when we need to, and doctors are no exception, especially when it comes to our children.
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can you please post examples of those letters- of course editing out major things like names, etc?? Because this really could help some other people & I will put it in this thread:
