Oxygen Silent Reflux Apnea Term Baby

[Anonymous]

Hiya, My name is Steph, my son William is a term baby who turned blue on day 3 when feeding. We were in hospital for 10 days doing lots of tests, all coming back negative apart from a floppy larynx (laryngomallacia) and acute silent reflux. Before they diagnosed the reflux they did a sleep study with him flat on his back after feeds and he had mixed apnoeic episodes. He was put on oxygen at 0.25 and since then has had a home oximetry on the oxygen in which he didn’t drop once. The jerk consultant went on holidays after the sleep study and never told us why he’s on oxygen, or for how long, the actual treatment of oxygen seems unusual to me and I hate it. I was wondering if anyone has heard of oxygen treatment for reflux before (he’s on losec and has improved 100%) and if so how long it went on for?

Thanks so much, Steph

stephanieOZ2008-09-22 19:49:50

[hellbennt]

hi & welcome!

I emailed another mother who perhaps can help you w/ your oxygen questions.

for the losec: please check the dose here http://www.marci-kids.com

it’s called prilosec here in the USA

also if you’re giving a liquid form of the losec (the pharmacist makes it into a liquid) please read here: Prevacid 101(last post on the page): https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&PN=0&TPN=1

[Anonymous]

**not a doctor here, but would imagine it is the following:

If you child is having apenic episodes from the reflux, a lot of time the flow of oxygen is enough to stimulate breathing in the baby. Also, 25% is very low oxygen. 21% is room air, so it is probably just to give the baby the flow of air to stimulate breathing if the child happens to have an apenic episode. I actually think if this is the reason, it is not a bad idea at all….. It will not treat the reflux in any way, but it will assist if the baby is apenic from holding breath.

Again, not a doc, but had both boys on oxygen in the NICU and would make sense to me. Did you ask the doc why?

[Anonymous]

sylvia spent the first month of her life on oxygen and an oximeter—and the first few days at home with an apnea monitor that was set waaay too sensitive. i learned to stuff a blankent over the speaker. she was desating and they told me her lungs were immature—–at full term?????? the cord was around her neck 3 timesand she had to bea resusitated (SP?) after she was delivered by emergency c-section—-it was a good thing that i had been scheduled for an induction on that day (a week early) because the doc said she could have been dead the next day.

the ped gi said that babies under stress usually have lungs that develop faster. it was probably the reflux that was causing the desats. we just didn’t know she had reflux for awhile.

[Anonymous]

I gather you’re either in Canada or the UK judging by the fact that you call it losec. Losec is hard to give to give to an infant- compounds are usually not made right and don’t do much good. I’d look into prevacid and see if you can get that, the solutabs work better imo. Sorry don’t know much about the oxygen, but I’d call your doc to get more info if you’re not sure. Might also want to check out an apnea monitor if you don’t have one already. Good luck.

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