We have a very small 6 week old who has had reflux since birth, spent time in NICU. had been on Zantac, no real relief...eats only 1 oz and vomits half. growing very slowly. The MD wanted to try prevacid but we then encountered the mixing problem with the 1 oz of fluid..(her entire feeding) then we found the Chocosite from this message board, contacted them and phound a pharmacy to compound the drug and Caracream, and we gave the first dose 2days ago. now the baby has a flushed look to her cheeks only. I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered an allergic reaction to the Caracream product. Or maybe the prevacid could be causing the flushing. This is probably the first time she has ever gotten the entire dose. We were really hoping to be able to use this product since the 2.5 ml twice a day is so much better than trying the granuals and an ounce of liq.
Please help if anyone has any input. thanks

Hi Ginny and welcome!

Not sure if I can offer any suggestions on this...I've never really heard of anything like that but all kids are different so it's hard to say. Is she still looking flushed? Perhaps they could try the chocobase instead of the caracream? Have you spoken with her ped?

Shae's prevacid is mixed with plain old sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) because we really don't need to worry about the taste since it just goes in her tube but perhaps they could look at mixing it like that and then adding flavour some other way?

Please let us know what happens.

Did you find out what was causing the rash?

Not really , but have come to the conclusion it is not the prevacid or the Cara cream..Thank Goodness. After 1 week of the medication mixed with the cara cream...a bit of relief is being seen!!! thanks for the info on the web site. We did speak twice with the folks at Chocosite and they had not seen such a reaction. It was self limiting and confined to the cheeks. GOne now.. Thanks for asking.

That's wonderful, glad to hear it!!