Infant gaviscon, contradictory advice from GP and on the packet! Please help!

[emeraldgirl1]

GP has (thank God) prescribed infant Gaviscon for DD. I am just praying it helps a bit.

BUT the GP said to put it into water and give after the feed. I had told her already that am bottle feeding. According to the packet however, you only give it in water after the feed if you are breast feeding, if bottle feeding you put it in the bottle of milk.

This is what we have just done (put it in the bottle) and DD seems worse than ever right now :(

Have we done something wrong?

Def try comfort milk, dd is bf mostly but when she has a bottle she has the gaviscon. Also there is something called carobel which works like gaviscon but doesn't seem to cause constipation as badly. Dd is also on ranitidine (Zantac) which is our saviour, she has been on it almost 4 weeks now and it has transformed her from screaming in pain for up to an hour after feeds, and being sick every time she lays flat to settling straight to sleep and she is now sick only a couple of times a day, usually after a slurpy gulpy feed where she has taken lots of air in (I have fast letdown and she is lip tied so struggles with maintaining the latch)
The comfort milk and the Zantac really have saved my sanity and she is now a happy cheerful smiley baby instead of miserable grumpy overtired and in pain.