If you decide to do OTC prevacid, you must buy capsules & open them up & you administer the beads inside the capsule. You must give on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later. When you administer the beads you need to give in a tsp of applesauce or in some pediatlyte:
OTC w/ applesauce, pedialyte, etc:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14642&PID=113339#113339
zegerid has the drug prilosec in it and it has buffers, so that it can be given w/ food. Otherwise, you must give a PPI on an empty stomach, followed by a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later. Examples of situations where you have to follow the ’30 minute rule:’ if you use prevacid solutabs or, if you use either prevacid or prilosec capsules (you would open them up and give the beads inside the capsule- you would give on an empty stomach and administer the beads w/ 1/2 tsp of applesauce & then you would follow w/ a ‘meal’ 30 minutes later).
why should you care about zegerid? because you can give the medicine at any time, even with food, and you don’t have to worry about timing it around an empty stomach.
are there other options?
yes, you can buy over the counter capsules and administer the beads inside the capsule.
any other options?
you can try and TELL the pharmacist EXACTLY how to compound (make into a liquid) your prevacid or prilosec. However, for whatever reasons, it can be difficult to get a high enough dose prescribed and, for whatever reasons, pharmacist insist they’re doing it correctly their way and they don’t take kindly to compounding the way you or your doctor tells them to.
zegerid mixing:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14637
If you make your own liquid, w/ OTC zegerid & OTC prilosec, (link above)then: This makes a concentration of 2 mg/ml and 3.5mL is the minimum volume to give each dose.
hellbennt2012-02-09 18:07:54
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& I’ve said so much of what needs to be said- that’s why I seem to ‘just’ provide links…”Laura Link”: LOL!
