langleybl
08-15-2010, 08:18 PM
Why is my five month old spitting up so much?
My son is 5 months old and has had acid reflux since the day he was born. He has been on zantac and Reglan most of his life. The past few of weeks it has been OUT OF CONTROL! We took him for his normal check up about 3 weeks ago and I expressed my concerns to the pediatrician that I believed the acid reflux was getting worse (even then it was not nearly as bad as it is norow.) The doctor then took him off of the Zantac and put him on prevacid. The next week it got worse and I took him back to the doctor. He THEN said that my son had a sinus infection and that could make the acid reflux worse...so he prescibed some medicine for the infection and sent me home...This was on a Friday...That weekend...the acid reflux was unbearable for my son AND for me! He could not keep one bottle down...it was really bad...so I called the doctor's office and spoke with a nurse who told me to supplement a bottle with Pedialyte and if he held it down try a bottle again...well needless to say at first he was not even keeping the Pedialyte down but I kept trying and eventually he could keep MOST of it down. That Monday I was back at the doctor's office and now the doctor was saying that he had Thrush and a Stomach Virus and sent him home with MORE meds....It is now SUNDAY and he is still spitting up most of his bottles, well the one's he will actually take...mostly he will push the bottle away now, probably because he is tired of throwing it up...we have switched my baby's formula to Soy as of Friday but has anyone had anything similar to this happen to their baby...it really is heart breaking...any help would be much appreciated!!
My son is 5 months old and has had acid reflux since the day he was born. He has been on zantac and Reglan most of his life. The past few of weeks it has been OUT OF CONTROL! We took him for his normal check up about 3 weeks ago and I expressed my concerns to the pediatrician that I believed the acid reflux was getting worse (even then it was not nearly as bad as it is norow.) The doctor then took him off of the Zantac and put him on prevacid. The next week it got worse and I took him back to the doctor. He THEN said that my son had a sinus infection and that could make the acid reflux worse...so he prescibed some medicine for the infection and sent me home...This was on a Friday...That weekend...the acid reflux was unbearable for my son AND for me! He could not keep one bottle down...it was really bad...so I called the doctor's office and spoke with a nurse who told me to supplement a bottle with Pedialyte and if he held it down try a bottle again...well needless to say at first he was not even keeping the Pedialyte down but I kept trying and eventually he could keep MOST of it down. That Monday I was back at the doctor's office and now the doctor was saying that he had Thrush and a Stomach Virus and sent him home with MORE meds....It is now SUNDAY and he is still spitting up most of his bottles, well the one's he will actually take...mostly he will push the bottle away now, probably because he is tired of throwing it up...we have switched my baby's formula to Soy as of Friday but has anyone had anything similar to this happen to their baby...it really is heart breaking...any help would be much appreciated!!