Hi all. I did a search and couldn't find quite what I was after. Our 10 week old has silent reflux. I can hear him bring up his feed and swallow it back. Rarely does he spit some out. If he does it's a teaspoon to a tablespoon at a time. Some days it will be after every feed. Other days it won't happen at all. Many days he'll scrunch up his face after a feed, stick his tongue out, chew his hands and do a bit of wriggling but doesn't cry or show other forms of distress. He has never had projectile vomit or any vomit.
He sleeps fantastically at night. Asleep at 9pm then we wake him during a final nappy change at 10-11pm and a final feed. Then he sleeps until 6-7am.
He doesn't fuss during feeds. Loves his food. He is overall very relaxed and unfussy. Nobody can believe how chilled out and easy going he is. He does have terrible wind and sometimes will cry or fuss until there's a fart or burp. He is a slow weight gainer but has put on 1.3kg since birth. Not ideal and has dropped to a lower percentile.
As a result a doctor put him on ranitidine for 3 weeks. He took it as instructed but I don't know how much difference it made. Spit up seemed to ease off but then came back a bit. Now a new doctor wants him on omeprazole. We have met her once.
I just don't know if it's necessary. Are his symptoms bad enough to warrant what feels like quite heavy duty meds? Please note that he's been seen by 3 prescribing doctors (+radiologists etc) in 10 weeks as we've been moving so nobody has a full recent picture of his health. The doctor who prescribed ranitidine did so at 7 weeks and hasn't seen him since.
I wondered if anyone could advise on their experience of how bad reflux was in their baby to warrant meds. Thanks very much.