Infant gaviscon help - please

[nicannie]

My baby has been prescribed infect gaviscon for reflux. She's only started being sick after and between feeds in last two weeks. She's 6w past Sunday. She's also breastfed.

My DR said to give the gaviscon before a feed but the box says after, any one else have experience?

Also how long typically between doses did you leave?

Little one has just been badly sick after having 3 doses and it was like curdled milk, thick and lumpy and everything came up. It's actually gave me quite a scare as it was like she struggled to bring it up it was horrible.

Will be phoning Dr tomorrow but thought I'd just reach out here in case any one can offer any advise or their own experiences with it. Thank you in advance anyone who responds xx

I gave it before a feed with my breastfed ds. Didn't use it for long though because it just constipated baby and does sweet fuck all for reflux.

@Pinkflipflop85 I'm doing a lot of research now and I am quickly realising that it does nothing for reflux for a lot of babies. Wondering whether to even continue giving it tomorrow when she wakes !!!

We give our dd one sachet in the morning, it’s stopped her from bringing up all of her feeds, though she is bottle fed so I just mix it in.
We tried upping her dose but it made her poops pretty solid.
Due to the current ranitidine shortage, our GP is looking to see if she can have omeprazole as her reflux is pretty bad.

Gaviscon worked really well for DS. But he was bottle fed so we gave it to him with his milk. I'd be inclined to do before a BF simply because it's more likely to go down and stay down.

If she still vomits on gaviscon I'd expect it to be pretty manky because she'd be vomitting up the gaviscon as well. Remember it's not absorbed into the bloodstream so it's supposed to sit at the top of her stomach contents and prevent them from coming up. If she's still vomitting, it would be easy to see how that would be harder and also more unpleasant. I have no idea if therefore the solution is perhaps a different medication or more gaviscon.

@dochas06 have you tried a sachet at night? We found as we dropped the quantities DS had, the night time one remained important because the moment he lay down, the reflux would kick in?

@BlingLoving We did one at her first day feed, so 6amish and then anywhere between 4-8pm depending on when she wants a feed.
It stops her from bringing milk up but she still brings copious amounts of clear fluid up.
It’s more the pain from the reflux rather than the actual vomiting that seems to be the issue now.

It’s more the pain from the reflux rather than the actual vomiting that seems to be the issue now.

Yes, your experience sounds different to ours. But I do remember that once we got the vomitting under control more, it still took a while for him to be less obviously in pain which I always assumed was because he had internal sores or inflammation from the previous vommitting that could only heal once that reflux wasn't happening as much.

But I have a hiatus hernia so have been through the whole thing as an adult - get on top of the acid reflux. Then wait for the damage (I was lucky never to have had an ulcer) heal. Flare ups subsequently still happen but less bad because there isn't existing pain and inflammation.