Alternative therapies for treating reflux?

[buddum]

My 10 week old has (I think) silent reflux - lots of back arching, pained crying and occasional vomiting when feeding.

However,it is episodic and he is not losing weight and still manages to sleep so I'm reluctant to pursue serious meds. Infant Gaviscon gave him terrible trapped wind.

Has anyone successfully used alternative therapies for reflux? We used a cranial osteopath to address some birth issues (born with cord round the neck - apparently can lead to reflux too) so I'm very pro.

Anyone else? Homeopathy / acupuncture?

hi buddum, my dd had similar prolem along with undiagnosed milk protein allergy. we tried homeopathy and cranial osteopathy, obviously they didn't help her colic symptoms because they were allergy related, but hey eased her reflux, although not massively, not for any length of time and not gone completely...

am considering acupuncture myself as i had it during pg for acid indigestion and it worked wonders (for short periods of time) so might try it for dd.

good luck

I was going to say cranial osteopathy but I see you've tried that. I have been told that massaging their tummy for a few minutes before each feed can help, apparently it relaxes the diaphragm which can lessen the spasms which cause some of the problem. I'd definitely continue with the CO if you can, it helped my DD2 a lot, her bad reflux became mild reflux and is manageable with just Gaviscon.

thank you all - am going to return to the CO next week....at least if you're trying something you feel like you are on their side and trying to help!

new CO claims a 75% success rate so heres hoping...