Infant Gaviscon for 6 week old

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DS is 6 weeks Monday. We've been prescribed infant Gaviscon for his reflux. I'm worried because all I've read on here is that it's makes babies more unhappy becuase it causes constipation. Anyone have any positive stories about IG? Also I'm sure Dr said we could give our baby more than 2 sachets in 24 hours because he's over 4.5kg, but instructions on the sticker from chemist says 2/day. Instructions in the packet don't give dosages for babies under 1 yr!

Should add I'm EBF

I gave my daughter infant gaviscon from about that age and she was way happier with life. It didn't cause constipation for her but it massively improved her reflux. I can't help with dosage as we put some in every bottle

I used infant gaviscon when my LO was 4 months. It didn't cause constipation and after a month he was completely fine. It says not to give to babies under one as it would be unethical to have tested it on them but I know of plenty of babies that have had it under one.

Infant gsvisgon is fine for baby with drs say so. It is not the same as gaviscon as we know it and a pain to administer. Essentially it just thickens up the feed to make it less likely to repeat. It just caused further issues for us so the Dr eventually prescribed ranitidine (whilst telling me how expensive it was 😬). That helped but it just took time to be honest it's hard. Stopped BF at 8 weeks thinking it was that but it wasn't and I wish I ha dnt !
Hope it works for you there's no harm trying

We didn't get on with it unfortunately, it just made DS constipated. Ranitidine was the game changer for us

We tried gaviscon at 3 months and it did not work, I read on various baby forums to push for ranitidine and yes it was brilliant at the time, my baby became extremely quiet and content after this but I’m certain that it was ranitidine that altered my sons brain functioning and caused social development delay. (He is 12-18 months behind socially and emotionally but 3 years ahead in other areas such as knowledge, vocabulary, reading and writing). A friend who is a GP since told me that there are higher reported cases of ASD signs in children who were prescribed ranitidine and although google does not bring up much on this other search engines do.

There is evidence that ranitidine can cross the blood/brain barrier and a study in older people 44% were later diagnosed with dementia after taking the same heartburn meds.

There is no history of ASD or development delays in our families and If I could turn back time I would not have risked ranitidine on my baby, yes he’s extremely clever for his age (reading and writing at age 2) but he struggles with interaction and harms other children - we cannot do normal family activities like play areas/parks and he requires additional support at preschool

DS was prescribed gaviscon at around that age. It made an immediate positive difference. We weren't told that you could give it in a syringe mixed with less expressed milk if EBF so we gave it in bottles which led to the end of BFing for us, so do try the syringe if you can.
We also later on tried ranitidine which was less effective but had no lasting effects.

Yeah same as a few pp, we had gaviscon, made ebf DS very constipated and we stopped it and got ranitidine which worked wonders. But a pal used gavisvon and it worked great for them.

Agree with RLOU30 about it being a thickened!