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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Acid Reflux Sucks Balls



  • Spitting up
  • Irritability during or after feedings
  • Coughing
  • Wheezing
  • Refusing to eat



Try cereal in the bottle.

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Get a Script for Prevacid

There are a few drawbacks to Prevacid though:


  1. My first had acid reflux. I have never washed so many loads of laundry in my life! He projectile vomited on everything. I didn't have too much trouble getting Prevacid though...Im sure it's because I walked in the dr's office covered in spit-up with a screaming baby...

    1. My friends reflux baby was a horrible puker too. So sorry. Ha!

  2. That must be so rough; I'm sorry. At least when he's older, he has a good excuse to eat ice cream.

  3. Poor lil one! Yes, reflux does suck. I thought for sure I was dying from it last night. :(

  4. This is awesome! Ethan had reflux, too, and had to have some kind of compounded meds, not sure if it was Prevacid or something else. The PROLIFIC VOMITING was the worst of it (for me, at least). Ten clothing changes a day (for both of us), towels for burp cloths and bibs, the constantly smelling like old sour milk - even the clothes AFTER being washed... fun times, fun times.

  5. Thank you for this post. Our LO had acid reflux as well. And for first-time parents, it was terrifying to feed him and then watch him puke practically everything up. And he would cry and howl before AND AFTER a feeding. Because he was hungry before, and then after because he was in pain.

    Our dr was a godsend - she was very old school and would basically tell the AAP to go fuck themselves as far as "no cereal in bottles" and "no solid foods before 6 mos". The cereal in the bottle helped enormously for our hungry guy; he could keep the food down all of a sudden and then he was constantly in the hungry-pain cycle. Finding the large nipples was a PITA, though. No store seemed to carry anything but smalls.

    Prevacid was a major bitch. The only pharmacy that would fix it up was the hospital pharmacy. And they had really strict hours. So I would call at noon and ask if it was ready. "Sure!". And then I'd show up at 4:00 to get it after hubby was off of work, and it wouldn't be ready. And then it would take 30 minutes for them to get my "ready" prescription actually ready. ::eyeroll:: And you're right about insurance. We wound up paying for it out of pocket because going through the paperwork was getting ridiculous and LO needed it too badly. We learned that after two days being off of it.

    Solid food rectified it for him; once we were on baby food, he settled right down. No more pain, no more puke. And suddenly, two parents who looked forward to feeding time instead of dreading it. It was funny, I read so many books that said the "baby food stage" was the worst, but it was a relief compared to the liquid months for us.

  6. Acid Reflux is a very irritating disease. It makes a person uncomfortable. Acid present in the chest causes ridiculous burning in the chest. And its unbearable if continuously occurred. when I had this problem luckily I have found a remedy of it. Its peppermint, Peppermint is an herbal supplement which helps to remove acid from the stomach. Here is the detailed info about it
    Hope it would also work for others who want to treat it naturally.

  7. All 3 of mine had reflux #1 had it the worst. There would be a fountain of spit up, like a cartoon, coming out of the crib. He was miserable, I was miserable, DH ws miserable. I had this one know it all mother practically bitch me out for not doing the back-to-sleep thing. She inferred I was just being selfish and Secretly wanted him to die of SIDS. Maybe I was sleep deprived but that's what I heard.



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