CJ I've been thinking the same. Trapped wind doesn't tend to result in hours of crying more just acute periods of it and it stops when baby burps or farts. Extended crying can make them take in air too so a baby can sound like wind is the issue when its only a secondary factor.
Pebble if its silent reflux then they don't puke.
Anyone facing extended hard to console crying ought to consider it. Unless you relish spending the next 4 months to a year in an increasingly difficult battle to soothe or distract them for hours on end on an evening. A lady on my last thread was driving 70 miles a night and walking untold miles when baby was 'colicky', a week on Losec (omeprazole) and she had her evenings back and a baby happily asleep from 7pm. Her mother almost sounded cross when baby was cured of 'colic' as "they didn't have reflux in my day". Jonas was a great sleeper after he'd cried himself to exhaustion on an evening but had awful painful reflux so good nighttime sleep doesn't mean it isn't. If there's a family history of 'difficult' babies, colic, eczema, asthma, food intolerances - then even more so you should consider it.
Untreated reflux can lead to long term damage both mental - PND, attachment disorders and physical - increased risk of bowel cancer, ulcerative colitis and allergies (including asthma and eczema). There's a reason our generation have high rates of those conditions!
CJ do you have a link to the advice change recommending Losec? Lil is on ranitidine and doing great (she's just done 5 hours 50!) but Jonas got to the point where only omeprazole would work and it would be great not to have to argue with our surgeries crap GP (the only one who has on the day appointments free!) should the need arise. 