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Dealing With An Infant With Acid Reflux
by Ryan McCarroll
I am neither a doctor nor an expert on Acid Reflux. That means none of this is medical advice just my experience of Dealing with my Infant that had Acid Reflux. I can say that my son was born happy and healthy thank God much the same way his sister was. Unfortunately he didn't follow his sister's relative easy infancy.
My wife had breastfed my daughter and was doing the same with my son. This was great it's great for the kids and let's face it it's free. The problem was my son wasn't gaining as much weight as our doctor would like, and to my wife and me it seemed as though he was always in pain or something was wrong. He rarely spit up so we weren't thinking that it would be Acid Reflux, so we waited. This resulted in many nights of no sleep for my wife and I. Worse there was something wrong with our son, and we didn't know what it was.
This is where the frustration really starts to creep in. the combination of a lack of sleep constant crying from your child and not being able to do anything about it does not make a pleasant household. My wife and I started arguing about what should be done. We didn't want to give my son unnecessary medications, but we had to do something. We took him to see the pediatrician to find out what the problem was. The first thing we found out was that my son had acid reflux so our pediatrician prescribed Xantac. We were happy that we knew what was causing all of this after a week or so of having him on the Xantac nothing had changed.
This was a very disappointing development. Our doctor told us this was not uncommon that this didn't work so he prescribed Prevacid. This helped, but it didn't completely fix the problem either. The Acid Reflux caused a lot of trouble and was still not gone. It was like a monster that invaded my house. I feel bad to this day for the way it made me look at my son at times out of shear exhaustion and frustration. Then finding out that he had been in constant pain made me feel awful that I had gotten so irritated with my son. My wife was still breast feeding and finally couldn't take it anymore and we switched to soy formula. Which after a few days seemed to really help the problem? So it turns out my son had been lactose intolerant. This made my wife feel awful that she couldn't breast feed anymore.
Thankfully my son is now 10 months old and a happy great kid. I guess the only real advice I could give on living in the same type of situation is to experiment with what might be causing the reflux. Just because one medication didn't help doesn't mean a different one won't. Most of all if you feel the frustration and anger taking over you really need to take a walk and calm down. One thing that always seemed to help calm my son down was to bring him outside. I don't know why that worked but it did.
My name is Ryan and I am a happily married father of two. My wife and I have decided to share some of our experiences on the net to hopefully help others that may come across situations we have already been through. We have also started a couple of websites one is to help people find http://www.thefashionablekid.com
About the Author
My name is Ryan and I am a happily married father of two. My wife and I have decided to share some of our experiences on the net to hopefully help others that may come across situations we have already been through. We have also started a couple of websites one is to help people find thefashionablekid.com and one on http://www.squidoo.com/thefashionablekid
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