Omeprazole

[Mommytobe1991]

Hi
I hope someone can give me some advice. Our baby is 7 weeks old and she is very slow to gain weight.
All of her symptoms seem to point to reflux. The doctor first prescribed nutramigen for CMPA and after two weeks with only slight improvement and the doctor worrying about her weight gain he prescribed omeprazole and to continue with the nutramigen.
She has been on it 4 day and she has been a bit better however it is very hard to give her the medication. Does anyone have any tips ? We tried using the Frida medication pacifier today and she completely lost it and after swallowing it she spat it back up within 10 minutes.
We're at our wits end at this stage. She is our perfect little girl but isn't gaining weight and feeding her gives us so much anxiety, between spitting it all back up, bottle refusal and just how miserable feeding makes her.
I'd love any advice 🙏🙏🙏🙏

My daughter had omeprazole and we had to break open the capsule and mix it with fruit puree to give it to her but she was 4 months when we started.

You say she spat back up the omeprazole after 10 min. That suggests you were able to get her to ingest it. If her reflux is bad enough that she can't reliably keep the medication down long enough for it to be absorbed by her body, then you will not be able to determine if it's working or not. Is it possible to get it in suppository form? Or a thicker formulation that is easier to feed her and easier for her body to keep in her tummy?

I used an infacol pipette and gave my son it with a bit of infavol mixed in as it's very bitter (,dissolved tablet form). I let it dissolve in water in the cup then use the infacol pipette to suck up the pellets and administer to the bsby, a bit at a time. Then a taste of infacol at the end to take the taste away, worked for us as he was hysterical with the syringe technique and we found the pellets would be stuck in the syringe.