Acid Reflux with No Spit Up?

Updated on August 28, 2012
M.T. asks from Eatontown, NJ
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My 14 month old has had severe acid reflux since she was born. She would spit up very large amounts of food all day long, never slept well and was on the same amount of meds as a 15 year old would take. SInce then she has been to two specialist and a chiropractor. She is off all meds and was discharged from her gastro. I still take her to a chiro who I absolutly love. She has been a huge help and has more compation for my kids than ANY dr. I have every taken my kids to. So long story short she has not spit up since she was about 11 months old but still is a horrible sleeper. Durring the day she acts fine except that she has to have a pacifier 24/7 and sucks on it all the time. I know that with acid reflux babies the sucking and swollowing helps sooth the burning of the acid so I never restricked her from it. So my question is can my 14 month old still have acid reflux with out the spit up? If so what are some signs that she still might have it? I have since taken her off her homeopathic remedy for acid reflux but am thinking about putting her back on it. Is there anyway I am way off and this could be something completely differant?

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A.C.

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Absolutely. My daughter had bad acid reflux all summer, but she would only spit up occasionally, and she usually swallowed it back down so I didn't even notice that much. I am personally on prescriptions for GERD and I NEVER spit up. It just BURNS. You might put her back on some meds and see if her sleep improves. If it does, you have your answer.

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L.E.

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Waking up coughing/choking was my clue that my daughter had reflux as a baby. She rarely spit up. The great thing is that your daughter is getting to the age that she can start to tell you how she feels with words. Hang in there!

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L.B.

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My son was a reflux baby - lived on medicine - slept sitting up - the whole regimen. He did outgrow it by the time he was about 1, but he still threw up more than most kids. Ugh.

He has been fine until he was 15. This past April it came back with a vengeance - he was literally throwing up every morning from the acid build-up. He now takes prescription Prevacid every night. If he misses more than one night of medication he is sick again. I also am careful with his diet. There are good foods and bad foods with this. He spent about a month eating only boneless, skinless chicken breasts, broccoli, brown rice and pineapple while the medicine kicked in. Even now, red foods, too much dairy, and others will make him ill.

Check your daughter's diet - for example, pineapple has a natural protease inhibitor in it which helps reduce stomach acid. I did a quick Google search and found great food lists to work from.

Talk your doctors again - she may need an acid reducer to help her sleep. Try propping up the head of her bed - acid tends to creep up from the stomach when they sleep - my son added an extra pillow to his bed to prop himself up at night to help with this.

We still see the same pediatrician who treated him when he was a baby - and he told us that it is common for the reflux to come back in children who suffered with it as little ones. I think this is something my son will have to deal with for life. {sigh}

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K.J.

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Hon, to be honest, I thunk that your questions are better served by returning to your CHILD'S pediatric gastrologist, not asking the general public. In reading your post, it caused me to wonder, if you are a little in rebellion to listen to the specialists, because they have set specific and certain requirements for your daughter's care, that you seem to be resistant to, because they are not "friendly or conforming to your "ideas," of what your child's gastrological care should be, because it seems you want a holistic approach, when this might require more specific, consistent, and effective care, then you unconsciously might not be willing to comply with for the comfort of your child's medical needs, more than what a chiropractor is offering. This care requires a pediatric gastrologist evaluation, and to be honest, more participation by you, that benefits your daughter... It seems that your current methods ARE NOT beneficial to her overall care, and I strongly recommend that you reassess your thoughts and ideas of what medical care actually means to you, that affords all concerned with the best optimum care for your daughter, because your statements and questions indicate you need more help, because the use of a chiropractor is good for orthopedic care, but, children should be seeing a general pediatrician, because children require more specific care, that some chiros are NOT trained in... Most only go through short periods of pediatric rotations that do not provide them with enough knowledge to know the long-term effects of heaIthcare related to infants, toddlers, etc. Most are trained in ADULT phases of medicine. I know this is not the answer you sought, but, sometimes your questions can bring about a paradigm switch that affords you another thought process that moves you from your current place to another idea that serves your child better, not for the moment, but for her long-term, lifetime, greatest potential that makes her a well-rested, sleeper, that can eat with the negative outcome of gastric reflux... Good luck!

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S.P.

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My son had acid reflux and never spit up. He would throw his head back and arch his back which is how we knew.

He also wasn't a good sleeper and we would up using the ferber method to get him to sleep as he wasn't able to put himself back and have been doing great since he was 13 months old (he is 16 1/2 months old now)

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