Reflux?

Eveamlizya

It seems like the last couple weeks DDs getting reflux everytime she eats. ?Its quite a bit too...about 5 or 6 times and Im usually having to get 2 burp cloths. ?Sometimes I have to change my shirt and hers. ?I havent eaten anything different. ?Has anyones LO just suddenly developed reflux? ?She didnt used to spit up hardly at all and shes arching her back and acting uncomfortable alot now.

BellaOso

Yes! At 7 weeks she just started throwing up more often and got a little more fussy. Then she was not as interested in eating. I am an EPer. I had already cut out dairy and the other no-nos.

The back arching and red faced, painful crying is apparently the clincher for most doctors to see reflux as a probable cause. My DD has been on Prevacid for 8 days and it has helped some with the pain, but what really has helped her turn the corner is chiropractic care. 

We had a kind of difficult delivery because she was slightly transverse. It was very obvious from her head shape that she didn't have a smooth exit. (It does look much better now!)

Before all of this started she had been a pretty typical baby as far as some very mild fussiness, good appetite and reasonably good sleeper for a newborn. When the symptoms of reflux started she changed almost overnight and I had a moderately fussy, baby who was only eating and ounce or so at a time (only a 2 day period, but more than enough to know something was wrong,) wouldn't nap for more than an hour (again for like a 6 - 8 day period) and couldn't more than 2 - 3 hours overnight who would occasionally be inconsolable and red faced and back arch after feeding.

She got her first adjustment on Tuesday at 2:30 pm. She came home and ate and passed out from 3:30 - 6:30. woke to eat at 6:30, ate, played and bathed, asleep again from 7:30 to 11:00, ate, and slept again from 11:30 - 6:00. Last night she went down at 9:00 and woke at 4:40. She didn't cry from pain after eating all day yesterday. I'm just blown away. I was going to type a post about it.

The chiropractor adjusted her atlas and her T3 and T4. According to him the atlas being out of whack can really affect digestion. I don't buy anything lock, stock and barrel, but he seems to have been right in this case.

We are only talking about 8 days from the first symptoms to diagnosis and being started on Prevacid. I saw some improvement with the Prevacid in the sense that she could be consoled and the crying jags were shorter and less frequent. About 5 days after starting Prevacid I sought out the chiropractor. Now she is a pooping, peeing, eating, sleeping, smiling, cooing, machine.

I know that Prevacid takes time to work and that may explain some of this, but the sleeping and comfort she feels is worth the visits to the chiropractor in support of her overall wellness. He had me feel the T3 and T4 and the atlas which were all painful to the touch at the start of the first appointment. She had another adjustment this morning and he had me feel these places again and this time my LO did not squirm or appear painful in those places anymore. He adjusted her again and she came out smiling like nobody's business and was asleep in my arms within 5 minutes. She got home was up and we did the usual stuff for 60 minutes, she started yawning, put her down for nap, slept for 2 hours, got up, ate again and played (60 minutes total) and back to sleep she is now. She is just so much happier!

I would suggest to anyone not to wait to see a doctor or chiropractor - because by the time she was avoiding food it meant she was in pain and had learn to associate the pain with food. 

Here is a site I looked at that kind of pushed me to take her in: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597889/

 

BellaOso

I'm so sorry that was so long. Your topic hit close to home and got my chatty bug going.

 

Natali25

Just wanted to post about the chiropractor and reflux. My LO doesn't have reflux... yet, but I do. I'm just curious when it'll start. He doesn't seem to be in pain but has other signs of it. I have gone to the chiropractor and have been told about the atlas and axis of the neck. I'm just lucky my chiro specializes in pg and baby adjustments. I wonder if I should just start taking him to the chiro now to help prevent it??

BellaOso

Natali25:

Just wanted to post about the chiropractor and reflux. My LO doesn't have reflux... yet, but I do. I'm just curious when it'll start. He doesn't seem to be in pain but has other signs of it. I have gone to the chiropractor and have been told about the atlas and axis of the neck. I'm just lucky my chiro specializes in pg and baby adjustments. I wonder if I should just start taking him to the chiro now to help prevent it??

if i knew how happy it would have made her - i would have done it from the beginning,  

 

MrsJetSet

Yes, dds seemed to come out of nowhere but in retrospect I think she had it before but we were less tuned into early signs. The back arching and screaming during feeding along with projectile vomit made our pedi put her on Zantac. The RnP has also been helpful because it keeps her more upright.