Do u agree? advice needed...

[K X]

As you are all aware for nearly a week Bex has been in and out hosp wiv gastrointeritous. The advice dr's have given is give her an oz of water and hour, and 3 oz of milk in the morning and at bedtime. I don't agree with it, as she is a growing baby and needs milk. She has lost nearly 2lbs already. What do I do? (I have been giving her more than stated but mum says I should adhere to what dr's are saying coz she is still bringing up/sh*ting everything out)..

Help......................

 

[weestar21]

its a catch 22 situation hun, u think yeah doctors know best all teh time but lets face it there arent right all the time like i said in the other post when my OH had it he was ill in bed for a week but after 3 days of anti biotics he was much better but still took an extra 2 days before he could get back to work.

Have they given her anything at all yet? i would be questioning them to see what they are going to do its not healthy for a baby to be p/shitting all the time and it will really hurt her when she is doing it alot.

i know its very tiering and stressfull for you hun but i would keep making emergancy appointments with teh gp every morning till they do something they cant keep flogging you off with just give her water

hope she gets better soon hun take care
xxxxxxxxxx

 

[Urchin]

Has anyone mentioned soya formula to you?
Dairy will aggrevate it, I'd see if she can keep soya down. You should have been given it on prescription, when mason was little he has a tummy bug and it really helped sort him out.

 

[K X]

thanx ladies.. Weestar she is under 6month so they can't give her any antibiotics. I am very tired as she is only sleeping for 3 hours a night and the screaming has raised 10 decebels!

Urchin, you are tuned in, I was thinking about Soya milk, as I am sure deep down she is lactose intolerant-they have branded her with severe reflux 4 ages but it's only with milk she's sick with..

Thanks for your help x

 

[Urchin]

Hope she gets better soon....if I were you I'd go to the shop right now and buy soya....then go mad at your doc for not precribing it!

 

[K X]

Rebecca thanx u, as she is p*ssed off with the stodgy SMA Staydown

 

[petchy]

she is under 6month so they can't give her any antibiotics

really? ruben had antibiotics to clear up his infected excema when he was only 12 weeks old...

 

[K X]

That's what the paediatrician told me at the hosp. Subsequently all they gave becky was fluids intravenisley (sp)...

I will be banging at the surgery door on Monday demanding antibiotics for Rebecca.

 

[futuremum]

Thomas had antibiotics before 6 months old too for his chest infection and on the instructions they say you can even give that to newborn babies. maybe it is a different type of antibiotics your gp was talking about.

hope it gets better

 

[bubble_dreamer]

Babies under 6 months can have antibiotics, they prescribed the to kurt when he was about 2 weeks old because they thought he had some sort of gastronenteritis because he wasnt keeping his milk down. (turned out he was lactose intolerant)

If Rebecca does have gastronenteritis no matter what milk you give her be it soya or anything else isnt going to make a difference as it will lay on the lining of her stomach. In turn still making her ill.

The only way to clear the system of a baby with gastronenteritis is to starve of all milk but make sure they are still getting plenty of water so they dont dehydrate (and i know how awful it feels to feel like you are starving your baby i went through it with beth) but if you do give her any form of milk it will just start it off again you need to give it enough time to flush everything out of her system.

Once she has been 24hours without being sick/diarohea (sp?) then slowly introduce milk again so that her body can readjust to it again.

If you do think there is a chance that she may be lactose intolerant. There are to things you can try one is SMA Wysoy (which is soya milk) the other is SMA LF (which is lactose free milk) i actually phoned the sma careline last week to find out what the difference was between them, what they told me was the the LF is for babies that are lactose intolerant as it has all the lactose removed from it, and the wysoy is for babies that are allergic to the protein in cows milk.
Both of them are available on prescription all you have to do is ask the gp for it, the sma careline actually advised me not to buy and to get it on prescription from the gp. If you find she is still the same with the LF then it may well be the protein that she is allergic to as a pose to lactose.

I had something called colief suggested to me last week
http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/forum/v ... hp?t=10994

basically you add it to either breast milk or normal formula and it helps to break down the lactose in it. The woman i spoke to swears by it - i havent tried it yet so i cant say personally how well it works, but this is also available on prescription too.

With lactose intolerance a lot of it is trial and error but if you dont try you wont know hun.

Hope she feels better soon, and if you want to know anymore give me a shout x

 

[emilia]

she is under 6month so they can't give her any antibiotics

really? ruben had antibiotics to clear up his infected excema when he was only 12 weeks old...

My eldest son also had antibiotics before 6 months. Thought it was ok!
Hope Rebecca gets well soon - must be terrible for you both at the moment! HUGS

Emilia xx

 

[Urchin]

The only way to clear the system of a baby with gastronenteritis is to starve of all milk but make sure they are still getting plenty of water so they dont dehydrate (and i know how awful it feels to feel like you are starving your baby i went through it with beth) but if you do give her any form of milk it will just start it off again you need to give it enough time to flush everything out of her system.

I think she's aleady done that, that's why I suggested the soya milk. I could be wrong though

 

[K X]

I have tried everything but to no avail Rebecca is hungry tho, but just cant keep anything in.. She was on water for 3 days solid and still bringing that up

I am still going to try the soya stuff tho as I have thot about it for a while that I think she is lactose intolerant and not just "severe reflux".

I am going mad with the constant screaming, had to take a walk round the block alone last nite at 1am I was pulling my hair out and about to pull Rebecca's out too

Thankyou for all your help and replies ladies..

 

[Urchin]

Let us know how you get on

Hope she gets better soon.

 

[bubble_dreamer]

hope she is ok chick make sure you keep us updated on how she is doing xx