Not sure if you were able to view my comments but my son was diagnosed with "reflux" and it was not that. Please see belpow:

Prevacid inhibits the absorption of calcium which a growing baby needs. Calcium can also help to strengthen the lower esophageal sphincter and keep it closed so the food or liquid does not come back up in the throat. My son was on Prevacid but this is not a cure. I kept on trying to find a solution to the problem not a bandaid. Please research more on what might effecting your child. It could be a bacterial or fungal overgrowth. Probiotics do wonders for children with this problem because their gut flora is not in balance. Research probiotics acidophlus especially. My son was labeled with reflux from 2 weeks old. By 7 months I had enough of the "spitting up" and found a doctor who cured him and he stopped his refluxing immediately. We give him a calcium supplement and a probiotic every day. He is doing great and has never had a cold. He is now 15 months old.

Prevacid stops the production of gastric acid which is needed to fight bad bacteria in your gut. If you take prevacid you run the risk of getting sick becuase you don't have that gastric acid to kill off that bacteria.

Research how children with autism have reflux and why. They believe it's becuase they have a fungal or bacterial overgrowth causing toxins to enter the blood stream.

That's why Jenny McCarthy was able to heal her son of Autism.

No one has been able to answer the question of why one infant refluxes and another does not.

Good luck and God bless.

Please feel free to contact me anytime. My email address is ilbacio0626@yahoo.com.

I have had the pleasure of healing another child of a person whom I met off the internet as well. He used to vomit all the time, had eczema and allergies. He no longer vomits and his eczema is gone. The allergies will take some time though as this is an IgA mediated repsonse. Let me know if you want to know more about the physical experience the body goes through. I can tell you what the difference between prevacid and zantac is and how neither are a healthy choice as they both reduce stomach acid which the body desperately need. My only goal at this point is to pass my information along to other moms and help them heal their children, as well as save them frustrating days where they should be enjoying their infants.

There is a strong relationship between labeling a child with AUTISM and have GI disorders, especially reflux. They told me to seek early intervention for my son at 6 months because shopping malls and too many people around him made him cry. Now, at 15 months he can go anywhere, and waves to every body.

Please don't over look any additional signs of what is happening to your child.

Let reflux be the way your child is communicating to you that something is wrong.

Why can't anyone answer why one child refluxes and another does not???

God bless and please feel free to contact me if you need more information.

Lisa

Acid reflux is not a disease but a description of events occurring. The contents of the stomach are regurgitated back up the esophagus, sometimes exiting through the mouth, other times being swallowed back down. Medication is not needed! Prevacid does in fact stop some of the production of stomach acid at the source, the parietal cell in the stomach. That's why it takes about 2 weeks for this to work. It's reprogramming the body to do something different. Zantac works based on the histamine released which is why results from Zantac are seen sooner.

I feel as though everyone is trying to put a band aid on these children's wounds as opposed to healing them. It is not right that these children are suffering and all we do is write a prescription. Why don't doctors perform a stool sample to see if there is bacteria or fungus in the stool? Why, when they perform blood card samples, and its positive do they not tell the parent this is due to inflammation and what is causing it?

Do you honestly believe that so MANY babies are born with acid reflux??? Why would Mother Nature do this?

Your body has no way of talking to you but in symptoms. If you get a cold, your body can only speak with sneezing and coughing. If you touch poison ivy and get a rash, this is your body's way of talking to you, letting you know, "it's allergic".

The first course of action is to use probiotics, which are common good bacteria found in everyone's gut, even little tiny preemie babies born into this world moments ago have good bacteria in their gut. Their immune systems don't always tend to be perfect so this would help. Especially if mom was on antibiotics at time of labor.

As for the calcium, it strengthens the lower esophageal sphincter which so many doctors believe is the cause of the regurgitation. That's why TUMS has calcium in it. And if you research it, Prevacid inhibits the absorbtion of calcium, so no matter what, your baby is not getting enough of the calcium from the fromula.

Tests should be done first before trying medications, especially those where NO STUDIES HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED ON CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 1!!!!

We research more about the car we are going to buy rather than researching a medical issue of our children. 

I don't want to come across as someone who thinks they know everything and is preaching, but what is do want everyone to know is that other explanations are out there and they should not take reflux as an answer and seek more advice.

1 in 150 children today have AUTISM. Most of whom were refluxing as infants and are boys. This is not genetic. It's bacterial, or fungal or viral. That's why vaccines play an important role. Reduced stomach acid can not fight the bacteria or fungus or virus, hence the toxins are an overload for the body with an already weakened immune system.

That's another topic, for another time.

I hope to help one person, who helps another and so on.

God Bless.

Lisa