This is a follow up question to Sunchick's question about babies and Prevacid. We are currently giving our five month old (13.6 lbs) one 15 mg pill every morning. It seems to be helping, although by the nighttime she seems to suffer from reflux and wakes repeatedly from her sleep in apparent discomfort. We are phasing out Zantac which did not seem to help much.

Two pediatricians from the practice we visit said it would be fine to give her Prevacid twice a day -- morning and night -- once we were off the Zantac. However, a pediatric GI discouraged this, saying one pill in the morning should suffice.

Since we're getting conflicting medical advice, wanted to hear from others.

Does anyone give Prevacid twice a day and/or been told that this is ok? We could split the dosage (half a pill each time) as Ikairis does, or we could give the full dosage mornings and a half dose at night.

Thanks.

Is there any reason why you can't switch and just give the one dose at night? That's what we do with Shae and it seems to work fine.

I'm sure it would be fine to give it twice a day, as long as you are splitting the dose and not actually doubling what she gets.

Welcome to the boards!

We give our son half of a 15 mg solutab of Prevacid every morning, and it seemed to have been working fine, but we're now seeing more restlessness and crying in his sleep (he used to sleep just fine), so I'm starting to thing along the same lines as you. Daniel is 22 pounds, so we may just need to increase his dosage.

We also give Daniel his pill first thing in the morning; otherwise he'd throw up. I know if we gave it to him at night we'd end up wearing most of dinner!

It seems like most of the new topics lately have to do with poor sleeping....

We give our son half of a 15 mg solutab of Prevacid every morning, and it seemed to have been working fine, but we're now seeing more restlessness and crying in his sleep (he used to sleep just fine), so I'm starting to thing along the same lines as you. Daniel is 22 pounds, so we may just need to increase his dosage.

We also give Daniel his pill first thing in the morning; otherwise he'd throw up. I know if we gave it to him at night we'd end up wearing most of dinner!

It seems like most of the new topics lately have to do with poor sleeping....
It's not just the refluxers that are having trouble sleeping these days, either. My totally healthy 5-year-old was up at 5:45 a.m. this morning thinking that it was time to get up...and he didn't settle until 9:45 p.m. last night either!

Becky, I think you're right about needing to increase Daniel's dosage, but then again I thought that was what we needed to do with Evan a while back and he was already on the max.