I have a 18month old who was on prilosec 20mg daily for a year and was not doing well. He was scoped and found to have esophagitis. He was then switched to Nexium 20mg. After three months of treatment he started to response to the medicine. Now after three months he is refusing to eat anything. My question is should we switch to prevacid or try to increase nexium dose?

Hi, my son was on Nexium and we had the same issue, it worked really well for about 3 or 4 months and then just seemed to suddenly stop. We then switched him to Prevacid as a last ditch effort (he had never toelrated it before) and thank goodness it worked really well for him. I think the Nexium might be hard to increase because it only comes in the capsule form (I think) you may want to give the Prevacid a try but I would make sure they start him out on a good dose like 30mg. :hug:

Thank you so much for your response. I will definately talk to his GI about that.

We switched around in the beginning from Prevaicd to Prilosec and back to Prevacid. I think some kids just do better with certain ones. There is always Zegrid to try too.

I find that most the kids here need a bit higher dose of Nexium as compared to prilosec, so you may find that an increase is your best bet. Since it is already in his system, then I would ask the dr if you can increase it to maybe 30mg a day and see how he does. This should be max a week to see an improvement.

Like Christine said some kids do do better on prevacid, but since your bub is on what would be considered a highish dose (when on the prilosec) it may be that he just needs a high dose to help out.

Good luck!