Online chat with Dr Rob Hicks, Friday 7 March 2008 between 1-2pm

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Dr Rob Hicks will be here for an online chat with Mumsnetters this Friday 7th March.

Dr Rob is a practising GP, health writer and medical journalist with a specialist interest in family health and child development.

A regular contributor to Prima Baby magazine he is also the Classic FM radio doctor and frequently appears on television in the role of medical expert. He is also dad to a 4 year old daughter.

Dr Rob will be joining us for an hour at 1 o'clock to answer any of your questions about children's health and diet, so get your questions ready, grab a cuppa and join us then.

But if you won't be here during the chat itself, then do please post any advance questions for Dr Rob here.

Thanks, MNHQ

double arf @ NDP

Damn I wanted to ask if he has shares in www.eatwell.gov.uk.

Am I being a bit thick here ? The man was a GP so how come 90% of the questions were nutrition related ?! Wouldn't a paediatric nutritionist/dietician been a better person to ask ?

He was a bit vague on the medical stuff. Obviously I realise that he can't give full consultations on the interweb but it seemed to me to be a bit of a flop.

Sorry MNHQ !

[realises she is now on the MNHQ blacklist]

he does a good spiel on piles though

ROFL

I think its cos he was online at lunchtime and we were all thinking about food

In the newsletter yesterday it mentioned that he specialised in childhood nutrition iirc.

I bet he was disappointed not to use his encyclopaedic bum grape knowledge

Ah, ok carm

my baby- 8 weeks has mild reflux. she gets such an upset tummy that she has become a very fussy eater, not wanting food till she's absolutly starving. she vomits up breast milk, but not always formula. i add infant gaviscon to her breast feeds (to thicken them up?)but she gets constipated. and am using gripe water but not sure if it work against the gaviscon or is bad for a reflux baby.

early on, i went to the hospital and they gave me domperidone & ranitidine, which i took her off, because i felt she was worse and without a pead to talk to (still waiting on an outpatient app.) felt i was out of my depths.

so my question is: what is your opinion of the following medicatons, working alone or in conjunction with one another

• gaviscon
• gripe water
• domperidone & ranitidine

thanks,
angela

lazyli - you're too late sweetie - he's been and gone !