My daughter is currently being treated for reflux by the GP. She is on infant Gaviscon and has been for 1 week 1 day now but it seems to have only helped with her pain and stopped her constantly crying, she is still getting other symptoms. GP is ringing today so I wanted to ask advice on what to do next.
The symptoms she is having are:
- bringing up milk after every feed. Sometimes it can be projectile and loads of it (this happens at least once a day) and other times it’s just 3 or 4 mouthfuls which can be caught with a cloth. Sometimes she cries whilst doing this as if she’s in pain, other times it doesn’t seem to bother her.
- she tends to poo at least once a day but when she does, it is really difficult for her. She strains, grabs hold of something really tightly and really cries but then the poo is soft.
- she hiccups nearly after every feed. This tends to bring up the milk.
- she coughs/gags whilst feeding sometimes. At least a few times a day.
- she can get quite upset during feeding times but is easily calmed down (last week she was constantly crying and nothing calmed her down)
- she brings up her gas well during feeding, she has lots of gas, seems to be trumping all the time.
- she seems to always have a blocked nose and sounds ‘sniffly’
- Sometimes I notice her breathing sounds a tiny bit wheezy but nothing I have ever been majorly concerned about.
- She isn’t a baby that screams all the time but is grizzly most the time but she does have her happy moments.
My partner, Darcie’s dad, had a cow milk allergy when he was a baby, is this worth me mentioning to the GP?
Do these symptoms still sound like reflux? Is it something that can be helped with or is it something I’m likely to just have to put up with.
Her weight was checked on Tuesday and they were happy with her weight gain and measurements.