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KC wrote: Dont pedis often prescribe rice cereal for reflux? Neither of my kids had reflux, but I am sure I have heard of rice cereal being prescribed for it, so just think of the rice cereal as part of the medicine. They DO, but it's not very effective/useful an rx. And Losec need not be given mixed in solids, it can be made into a liquid without too much trouble. Dawn |
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"AlenasMom" wrote in message t.cable.rogers.com...
I have to give Alena a pill called Lausec (I think I spelled that right) for her reflux. The only way I can give it to her is in some form of a solid (like rice cereal or fruit... or something.) Is this going to cause her allergies and problems because she's only 5 months old??? I sat and cried when my doctor told me this. So I spent an hour looking for a rice cereal that wasn't made out of 35% formula and wasn't made by Nestle (I'm boycotting them... I miss Aero bars soooo much!!!) and found Heinz Rice Cereal. Someone help me feel better about this.... I don't think it's that early, but it's totally up to you. You can try to find a compounding pharmacist (we have one that I'm always ready to call if there's a medicine issue), and our regular pharmacy will do a lot of different things as well -- I try to avoid a lot of the filler-type things that are in medicines anyway. But, if you do in fact have to use rice cereal or something, save the Heinz, if you bought it, for later -- use plain brown rice that you can make into cereal yourself at home. You can even use filtered or bottled water if you want -- and it's really good, I even used to eat it with my kids. You just put a handful of dry, uncooked, brown rice in the blender, and blend/puree/liquefy -- whatever your blender settings are until it looks like fine sand. Then you cook it in boiling water on the stove like cream of wheat. It's really easy and inexpensive, and I think it tastes better than any rice cereal (even cream of rice isn't as good, I don't think). And you can make it organic if you want. If you use a handful of rice, that should serve the baby for an entire day, and that's if they're starting to be 'eating-eating', not just taking it with medicine. I think the book I used to make my kids food was 'Super Baby Food', and while most of it is intuitive and self explanatory, it was helpful. I got it used at Half Price Books, it was probably 8 or 10 bucks. Good Luck! Tina. |
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"Tina" wrote in message om... "AlenasMom" wrote in message t.cable.rogers.com... I have to give Alena a pill called Lausec (I think I spelled that right) for her reflux. The only way I can give it to her is in some form of a solid (like rice cereal or fruit... or something.) Is this going to cause her allergies and problems because she's only 5 months old??? I sat and cried when my doctor told me this. So I spent an hour looking for a rice cereal that wasn't made out of 35% formula and wasn't made by Nestle (I'm boycotting them... I miss Aero bars soooo much!!!) and found Heinz Rice Cereal. Someone help me feel better about this.... I don't think it's that early, but it's totally up to you. You can try to find a compounding pharmacist (we have one that I'm always ready to call if there's a medicine issue), and our regular pharmacy will do a lot of different things as well -- I try to avoid a lot of the filler-type things that are in medicines anyway. But, if you do in fact have to use rice cereal or something, save the Heinz, if you bought it, for later -- use plain brown rice that you can make into cereal yourself at home. You can even use filtered or bottled water if you want -- and it's really good, I even used to eat it with my kids. You just put a handful of dry, uncooked, brown rice in the blender, and blend/puree/liquefy -- whatever your blender settings are until it looks like fine sand. Then you cook it in boiling water on the stove like cream of wheat. It's really easy and inexpensive, and I think it tastes better than any rice cereal (even cream of rice isn't as good, I don't think). And you can make it organic if you want. If you use a handful of rice, that should serve the baby for an entire day, and that's if they're starting to be 'eating-eating', not just taking it with medicine. I think the book I used to make my kids food was 'Super Baby Food', and while most of it is intuitive and self explanatory, it was helpful. I got it used at Half Price Books, it was probably 8 or 10 bucks. Good Luck! Tina. Thanks for this! Alena started the rice cereal because the liquid was just coming back up. She gets about 1/2 tsp of it right now and it seems to be working for everything! She's not as spitty as she was when she started the Losec, and she hasn't stopped breathing in her sleep once since we started it!!! So far so good! I'm going to use the homemade stuff from now on though... less chemicals! Thanks to Dawn for the recipe for making the pills into liquid form. That was really helpful, but just didn't work for this crazy baby. (She holds liquid at the back of her throat until she can spit it out at us.) I'm planning to make all of her foods, so the recipe book for babies is going to be put on my shopping list. |
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"Tina" wrote in message om... "AlenasMom" wrote in message t.cable.rogers.com... I have to give Alena a pill called Lausec (I think I spelled that right) for her reflux. The only way I can give it to her is in some form of a solid (like rice cereal or fruit... or something.) Is this going to cause her allergies and problems because she's only 5 months old??? I sat and cried when my doctor told me this. So I spent an hour looking for a rice cereal that wasn't made out of 35% formula and wasn't made by Nestle (I'm boycotting them... I miss Aero bars soooo much!!!) and found Heinz Rice Cereal. Someone help me feel better about this.... I don't think it's that early, but it's totally up to you. You can try to find a compounding pharmacist (we have one that I'm always ready to call if there's a medicine issue), and our regular pharmacy will do a lot of different things as well -- I try to avoid a lot of the filler-type things that are in medicines anyway. But, if you do in fact have to use rice cereal or something, save the Heinz, if you bought it, for later -- use plain brown rice that you can make into cereal yourself at home. You can even use filtered or bottled water if you want -- and it's really good, I even used to eat it with my kids. You just put a handful of dry, uncooked, brown rice in the blender, and blend/puree/liquefy -- whatever your blender settings are until it looks like fine sand. Then you cook it in boiling water on the stove like cream of wheat. It's really easy and inexpensive, and I think it tastes better than any rice cereal (even cream of rice isn't as good, I don't think). And you can make it organic if you want. If you use a handful of rice, that should serve the baby for an entire day, and that's if they're starting to be 'eating-eating', not just taking it with medicine. I think the book I used to make my kids food was 'Super Baby Food', and while most of it is intuitive and self explanatory, it was helpful. I got it used at Half Price Books, it was probably 8 or 10 bucks. Good Luck! Tina. Actually. I have another question about it... Can you freeze portions of this like with carrots etc? |
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