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I’m just stumbling onto this post. Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How exciting for you. Go celebrate if you haven’t already.
Also, wanted to add that for awhile after taking Justice off his meds I would still hear stuff come up and he would even spit up more than usual, but it is all gone now.
Lori,
Brianna had a hard time BF, but not really a feeding aversion…but I can tell you what we did. We had Brianna on 30mgs, and then we went to 22.5 (15 in AM and 7.5 in PM) then we went to 15 total (7.5 and 7.5), In addition we were using (zantac at the time) at night, but weren’t waiting the four hours. Then what we did was actually go to 12, but we did it all in the AM. . Ok, so this is kind of confusing, but I guess this is what I am trying to suggest. Cut back on the nightime dose and give the pepcid (dont’ worry about the time between). If she does OK with taht, I would be confident in taking out her nighttime dose all together. I guess my reasoning (strange as it may be) is that if you are supposed to wait 4 hrs or the PPI looses it’s effectiveness, but Hailey still does well despite that, maybe she doesn’t need the entire PPI at night. You could then take half of what you have been giving her at night, and still give it to her in the AM so she is still on a healthy dose, but give the pepcid at night only. And from there, decide when you want to try the full wean. PM me if I am making no sense, and I see if I can try to sound more clear…I feel like my head is in a fog today becuase I forgot to put my contacts on.
yeah, I did mean what you said from the second post.
I would try giving the pepcid at night without worring about the timing. See how she does So from your post, I think you are saying that she only is on 15mgs at night? Is that right? If that is so then I would say, try the pepcid, if she does well then maybe try and move the dose of prevacid down to 10mgs or so and leave it there. When we completely weaned Brianna we did end up giving a bit more of the pepcid complete. We now give her a 1/2 tablet before her nap, and the other half at night. I got the information for how much to give her from Dr. Phillips. Do you have his e-mail? Also, my Ped GI said that one tablet a day is actually a low dose for Brianna’s weight. So maybe tell Dr. Phillips what you are trying to do, and see what he thinks would be a good dose to start from. I know it is scary trying to cut the meds. Everything was going great for Brianna, and I was so scared to try no meds, but I knew I had to do it. If it makes you feel better, we had tried this twice before and it didn’t work. I was able to tell relatively quickly (within about 3 days of the same things happening) and once the meds were back on board, Brianna rebounded immediatly. Keep us updated on what you decide. I wouldn’t worry too much about the one episode…my GI doc said most babies will have flair ups from time to time. (I think I already told you this, but my brain is all over the place today
). As long as it doesn’t become a cronic problem, I think she is fine. I would try the new mylanta thing that ya’ll have as long as the ingredients seem to be similar..or maybe ask your Dr. about it.I hear you on that.
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