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Toddler with silent reflux?

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Mama12345lemon · 21/07/2025 09:07

Does anyone have any experience with their toddler (DD is 2 years old) possibly having silent reflux?
My daughter has suffered with a on and off cough as long as I can remember, has both asthma pumps but I recently gave her gaviscon when she had a chronic cough and it really seemed to help.
Seeing Dr on Wednesday to discuss this further but has anyone else’s toddler experienced silent reflux at this age, I know it’s more common in baby’s and how did it present?

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Superscientist · 21/07/2025 09:27

My daughter is nearly 5 and hasn't outgrown her reflux from birth. It goes in an out of being controlled by medication.

She had a massive relapse aged 3 and went right back to her newborn days of being awake every 40 minutes only sleeping if being held upright and we could hear her bringing up stomach contents and then swallowing it again. She gets a cough overnight too because the refluxed stomach contents irritates the back of the mouth. Her paediatrician checked her over for asthma when we mentioned the coughing as the other reason you can get coughing overnight is asthma with the nasal drip irritating the airways.

She complained daily of stomach ache and that her tummy felt like it was coming back up. She started to reflux a bit during the day too, if she was sat quietly you could hear it. The paediatrician also suspected that the reflux had triggered gastric regurgitation syndrome where the stomach continues to bring up the stomach contents after the reflux has stopped as a bit of a habit. She could be still refluxing hours and hours after having and drink or food.

Her reflux is managed with a combination of omperazole, domperidone, infant gaviscon and behavioural changes. We moved her drink before bed forward so she has a chance to digest it before getting into bed and we propped her up an pillows so she wasn't lying flat. It's important if reflux is suspected to pay super attention too teeth. In this particularly bad episode she started chewing on the refluxed stomach contents and this caused a small cavity in one of her molars. Getting her reflux under control and having fluoride treatment every 3 months has stopped this growing and protected her other molars from damage.

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