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Medication Concern
It keeps the food from coming back up the esophagus and helps move it out of the stomach and into the intestines where it belongs. I also took Reglan for ...
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- This medication is used to treat certain conditions of the stomach and intestines. Metoclopramide is used as a short-term treatment (4 to 12 weeks) for persistent hear...
- I am a nurse and a new mom of a 5 week old. If you choose to give him the Reglan start with the lowest dose and watch him very carefully. I have seen Reglan work reall...
- I have no personal experience, but my friend has a child who had many many feeding issues, one thing they finally tried was that drug. From what she has said, it work...
Looking for Advice on Taking Seasonique, the Pill Where You Get 4 Periods a Year
... comes up the esophagus and burns it, leaving a nasty burning sensation in the chest and increasing your chance of cancer of the esophagus)... clearly, ...
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- K.-You can do this all naturally. ALL drugs have toxicity and are acidic to some degree. Most of these pills if not all are made with the by-products of other animal...
- I tried taking it and it made me feel horrible! I took it for about 3 weeks and had to stop. I had horrible headaches and just felt very worn down like my body was f...
- I know many people who have dealt with your symptoms by taking a nutritional approach. I have been doing blood testing yearly through a company called "Your Future Hea...
4 Month Old Will Not Drink Breastmilk or Formula
When the stomach fills up and the food has no place to go, the upper "valve" ( called the cardiac sphincter) between the stomach and esophagus spasm and the ...
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- J., First I have to say I am not a Mom. I would love to be but it just hasn't worked out yet. I have however helped each and every friend I have with her children...
- I had the same experience with my son when he was about two months old. My doctor had told me that I was burping him too hard. He ended up so dehydrated and almost di...
- This is quite concerning. He may have something simple as reflux or something wrong with his gastroesophageal anatomy. Has the pediatrician taken an x-ray of your ba...
Baby Crying While Feeding
It turns out she has reflux.....not the constant spitting up kind, she has the kind that doesn't make it back up so it burns her esophagus. ...
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- Hi Nicole, What made you put the baby on soy milk? Call your peditrician and can you breast feed? Get your baby on formula. Good luck. D.
- I would call the pediatrician and see if you can talk to one personally about this. You will likely have to leave a message for a return call but this is the way I wo...
- Almost sounds like reflux? Why did you switch to soy? Sounds like you should talk to the pediatrician to be on the safe side.
Two Year Old Frequent Vomiting with No Fever
My grandson was born with a seriou problem and through his life he has had to go back for surgery to open his esophagus and from his stomach to his ...
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- I have to tell you that you are lucky that it is only about 1 time per week. I will tell you the same thing the doctors have told me for 6 years now. As long as he i...
- I agree that you should start with the pediatrician. You may or may not need to see a specialist. Probably best to avoid eliminating a lot of foods until you have mo...
- Hi A., My son is 22 mos and sometimes has the same symptoms. He also has major ear problems involving recurring ear infections and fluid buildup. He will sometimes vo...
9 Month Old Not Eating... Anyone Else Go Through This?
Basically, acid reflux but more advanced, where her esophagus and throat were irritated so she refused to eat. These were her symptoms, ...
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- There has been an AWFUL stomach bug going around lately. My whole family got it. Eli acted as if nothing was wrong until we'd feed him and he'd puke in his high chai...
- Hi C., My daughter had similar symptoms around that age and was diagnosed with GERD. Basically, acid reflux but more advanced, where her esophagus and throat were i...
- Hi - I've not gone through this myself, but just a thought - if it is because of teething, but you want to get some fluids in him, you might try a popsicle. I would...
5 Month Old Spitting up After Feedings
It gets better when they're on more solids and their little esophagus has a chance to develop properly. As for the other skills, every baby is so different ...
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- My son just turned 5 months the 15th of May. He spits up alot too. This is my second child. My first we had on Similac and he was very gassy and spit up with every sip...
- Hello L., Every child is different and with my first I was really concerned because she spit up all the time, even 2 hours after she ate. I breast feed until she w...
- I worried about this too with my son. I switched formulas several times and ended up right back with the enfamil lipil (acutally the target brand version - its the sam...
10 Month Old Choking on Solids
My nephew had an issue at birth where his trachea was fused to his esophagus, which required immediate surgery. Now, he has some issues swallowing, ...
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- My daughter too took awhile to be able to eat without choking on things the same way, even those little puffs, as she always just tried to swallow them like milk and r...
- Hi V., Since you have talked with your pedi, it may be a time thing. My first child was a lot like this. She choked up until about 11 months old and then it was like ...
- We started my son on very thin baby cereal (fed by spoon) first and slowly thickened it. Then we started on stage one foods for a while and so on. We gave him a while ...
5 Month Old Still Spitting up Frequently...
I worry about damage to his esophagus...because this spitting up can not be good for him. .... The spitting up has not hurt is esophagus. Good luck! ...
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- Hi E., I went through the same problem with my last child who is now 5. He was a large baby 9 lbs. 13oz. and 22 1/2 inches, my largest!! And I'm a small person 5' 2...
- I feel like I just got finished reading an autobiography of last year with my daughter. We used the Dr. Brown bottles, lactose free formula...blah, blah, blah. All I c...
- Hi E., My daughter, who's now nine, used to do that until she was at least 6 months old. My doctor told me that as long as she was gaining weight, she was keeping eno...
7 Month Old Still Spitting Up?
... problem is when that bean shaped tube that should be soft down their esophagus gets hard like a olive pit food comes up after meals and they will puke. ...
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- I would take him to a specialist, a peds gastro doc asap....have him tested for celiacs and chrons too. good luck E. nursery times day care
- Is he spitting up or throwing up/vomiting? Based on my own experience with my first son, I'd look into food allergies if he is throwing up/vomiting. New foods should...
- Hy L.. They did the same for my daugher in putting her on Zantac. They kept saying that she would out grow it when she started on foods but she didnt. It just got m...
