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A little more than 50 perfect of infants suffer from some degree of pediatric GERD. The condition is not easily diagnosed because the patients affected are usually non-verbal. Most infants and children with GERD are especially fussy, and have problems eating and sleeping.
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Our expert, Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, is a pediatric gastroenterologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, TX. He is the author of Colic Solved. Each month, he will answer selected reader questions about GERD and infants, children, teens and their parents. If you want to…
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