reflux/vomiting

[chuncksterboo]

i have recently started weaning my dd (6m). has had reflux vitually since birth although gaining weight fantastically! Doc has dgiven gaviscon but have also tried C & G omneo comfort milk . i hoped that weaning would reduce her vomiting but now she brings up food aswell! Don't know if it's ok to keep using gaviscon indefinately (gp disinterested as dd is putting on weigh fine so just keeps giving me repeats of gaviscon)or just used omneo comfort. she is a bit less sick with it, but gaviscon in very feed seems to work the best. just worried about putting "medication" in each bottle. Anyone else experienced this?

Weaning made no difference to my sons reflux either; just had mulitcoloured sick. Kept on with gaviscon untillit stopped at 10 months. He is still sick very easily if he has a bad cough.

anyone else experienced this? How long is it ok to keep using gaviscon?

DD2 suffered from this as well - like your dd she vomited after every feed but continued to gain weight. She wasn't prescribed gaviscon, at the time I thought it was just something I had to put up with. I remember when I was weaning her and she would bring up tomato-coloured vomit, which NEVER shifted even on the hottest wash. No one ever wanted to hold her, poor little mite!

I, too, would have felt uncomfortable about gaviscon in every feed. Can you see another doctor at the practice?

Sorry this hasn't been much help, just wanted to say some of us have been there too. And there is a point at which it stops xx

DD's paed advised us to try reducing the amount of gaviscon she has when she reaches 9 months, and see how she reacts, but he didn't seem to think it would be a problem if she needed it for longer.

One of my twins has bad reflux and was prescribed Gaviscon for months. I was also worried about adding what I perceived as 'medicine' to every bottle and queried the side effects with a few of the pediatricians at the hospital. We were told to continue with it as long as needed - no-one seemed worried with any long term effects.