The answer really depends on your pediatrician and if he is able to help your son enough. When my daughter was a baby her pediatrician was only comfortable with treating her at a certain level. That helped but wasn't enough so we went to GI. With my middle one, he didn't do well on Zantac and wound up on a medication my pediatrician hadn't prescribed before, so he also went to GI. By my third, my pediatrician had now been working for 6 more years than with my first, had more experience with reflux, more info was out about reflux, etc. She medicated him, he did fine, we never went to GI.

It never hurts to get a second opinion from a GI specialist but it can take a while. Here in MD it can take three months to get an appt with a pediatric GI specialist. Actually, with my second, we made an appt at one month of age figuring that if everything was going fine when it came time for the appt we could cancel it.

What did your pediatrician suggest for the reflux? Did he prescribe medication? Are the suggestions working? If not, I would recommend going back to him and telling him where things stand with his prescribed treatment. Let him try to problem solve with you.

Stephanie