my child has silent reflux? Help!

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Robyn Kozierok wrote:

*In article .net,
*CBI wrote:
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* Yes, and the "normal baby reflux" was the first (and only painful)
* symptom.
*
*"Normal baby reflux" isn't painful.
*
*
*The gastric juices that are brought up can burn the esophagus. At
*least that is what was going on with my son -- I had him medicted for
*the pain he was in, until we figured out the root cause (allergies).

If he was in pain, it wasn't "normal baby reflux." It was pathologic baby
reflux, which you figured out because you noticed his pain, and you got
treatment for. THis is probably a matter of you guys talking at cross
purposes.

Almost all babies have reflux. You might call it "silent" reflux, because
there are no clinical signs associated with it. These babies are not in
pain. They aren't suffering long-term complications. They aren't acting
like anything but normal babies. They reflux because their lower
esophageal sphincters are incompetent. This is NORMAL and EXPECTED in
babies.

Some few babies have a problem resulting in pain associated with reflux.
These babies do not have "normal baby reflux." They have a problem which
requires treatment. This is where your baby fits in.


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"PF Riley" wrote in message
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Yes, and the "normal baby reflux" was the first (and only painful)
symptom.

"Normal baby reflux" isn't painful.

The gastric juices that are brought up can burn the esophagus. At
least that is what was going on with my son -- I had him medicted for
the pain he was in, until we figured out the root cause (allergies).
He never spit up, so it wasn't a laundry issue for me. He just brought
up his stomach contents partway and then swallowed them back down. The
OP said she thought her child had "silent reflux" which is a term I'm
not familiar with but which I guessed to mean the same symptoms my son
had.

I would agree with CBI, then, that this was not "normal baby reflux."
A baby with normal reflux is "the happy spitter" where the baby spits
up part of his feeding, it doesn't bother him or cause other health
problems, and it's not caused by underlying pathology. What you
describe is gastroesophageal reflux caused by a food intolerance
resulting in reflux esophagitis. This is not "normal baby reflux."

What he said.

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CBI, MD