baby weight loss

[pooch]

Dr thondup is brilliant at diagnosing and treating reflux.
He is with veritas medical practice in central and also at repulse bay medical practice in repulse bay.

He can be very rushed but if you demand he listen to you he does and when it comes to reflux he really knows what he's talking about.
If you decide to see him try to get one of the first apointments to minimise waiting

good luck.

 

[Shenzhennifer]

He does seem to be in pain. He arches his back and cries until I sit him up and then he's better. I have no doubt that he is hungry. He wakes a lot in the night and is sleepy so seems to feed better then. I just feed him as much as possible at night so he can get something at least! He vomits a fair bit. Not just excess milk. And he is really agitated just before he spits up. Like he's in pain. I think I will be looking for a new doctor! BUmmer though coz I did like her. There was usually a massive wait to see her though even if you made an appointment.

When I was a small baby, I had pyloric stenosis, nearly died in fact, because of many misdiagnoses and `don`t worries` to my mom. This is a bit rare, though very treatable problem(with surgery mind you), and more prevalent in boys. Totally not trying to scare you, and I don`t have any experience with `simple` reflux, but this is very easily diagnosed if the doctor is looking for it. For matters like this, I would go to a good public hospital (Princess Margaret for your part of town perhaps) who would have more experience with these things than cushy private hospitals. Weight loss is a serious thing for small babies. One of the most obvious symtpoms is projectile vomiting, which you didn`t say your son does, but you said he vomits quite a bit, so something is preventing his body from absorbing the milk. Best to find out what it is. I would get it checked out as soon as you can.

 

[Lisainhk]

Thanks for the posts everyone!
Well we went back to doctor and she finally said it may be reflux (he gained a bit of weight but not as much as he should and has dropped from being in 50th centile to 20th) and gave me zantex (no idea how to spell it). Think I will go to another doc because I told her about him only sleeping for 3 hours at night and then tossing and turning and waking up every 45 minutes til morning and having terrible naps during the day and she said 'oh ok'. ??!!!! He looks exhausted and is such a hassle to get him to even sleep for 45 minutes. Takes ages to get him to sleep. Maybe it's normal to sleep like that at 5 months??

 

[Shenzhennifer]

Good idea to see another doctor.
I know a woman whose baby was also gaining weight terribly, and also was fussy a lot. I just heard from my friend that her baby ended up having an operation last week to fix a valve in her stomach that prevented enough milk was being digested.
Go with your gut.

 

[LLL_Sarah]

I don't think that it is normal to "sleeping for 3 hours at night and then tossing and turning and waking up every 45 minutes til morning and having terrible naps during the day".But it is common in babies that suffer with bad reflux.

The medicine that the doctors give most of the babies I see is Zantac. It really seems to help in these bad cases.

Information about Zantac is available at Zantac infants dosage and side effects information from a pediatrician

Best wishes,
SARAH

 

[LeahH]

Doesn't sound normal at all as Sarah says above - reflux caused us very troubled sleeping until the medication finally took effect. Give it 3 days to see if there is any change.

If Zantac doesn't work out for you (it tastes awful and I had a terrible job getting both mine to take it), there is another route called Prevacid. It's a bigger pain to prepare as it is a pill you dissolve, but tastes ok.

I would definitely try a different doctor.

 

[mela]

I agree with everyone above it's not normal for baby to be fussy and cry for longer than a day around feeding times. My baby has reflux - luckily for us she got diagnosed when she was 6 weeks so we got it under control now. A few pieces of advice you might find useful:

You might have hear about raising one side of the cot to about 40degrees so they sleep better at night - the acid doesn't flow so easily.

We found that expressing and feeding from the bottle worked better - especially for night feeds. I used dr Browns bottles that are great for reflux

Try cutting out all dairy from your diet for a few days and see if it makes any difference - very often relfux is closely related to milk protein intolerance.

Our little one is on Losec which works very well but it's not easy to crush.

Find a doctor who knows something about reflux - so many people had told us that we were just making this stuff up.

Dr Thandup mentioned above comes highly recommended and so does Dr Mark Chan.

I hope this helps - feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

It will get better - it starts improving around 6 months. My daughter was quite small and now is in 80th percentile!

 

[Lisainhk]

Leah: Where do you get prevacid from?? He is hating the zantac and spits it all out. I'm thinking of adding it to an expressed bottle but don't want him to associate the bad taste with the milk.
Thanks for the advice guys. I hope it works!!!