Gaviscon

Saw a post on here about gaviscon earlier but I have another question I hope you can help with. Little one is 11 weeks old and on aptamil comfort. He has silent reflux but this has only really become an issue and started to affect his feeding this last week.

I can’t add the gaviscon to his bottle as the formula already has a thickening agent so the doctor told me to give on a spoon. I
The GP told me to make the gaviscon up as per the instructions for breastfed babies and it says to give part way through the feed but by this time he’s already really unsettled and uncomfortable. He normally drinks the first couple of oz of a bottle ok and then after that you can tell he’s uncomfortable. I’ve tried to preempt and give the gaviscon after an oz/ half an oz but it makes no difference.

I am going to call the doctor/ health visitor tomorrow, but does anyone who gives gaviscon on a spoon/ syringe give it before the feed and does this help at all?

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Are you adding an additional thickening agent to the comfort milk or are you referring to the natural thickener that’s already in comfort milk? If it’s the latter, we add the gaviscon to the bottles with no issue 🤷🏼‍♀️

I just add the gaviscon to the bottle. I think that’s ok?

Ah ok, no we don’t add anything to the milk but the doctor said we couldn’t add to the bottle because comfort milk already has a thickening agent. She also told us only to give 2 sachets a day and not the maximum dose of 6 as gets very constipated. Will give it a try in the bottle.

Was the Gaviscon prescribed in the last week, when you’ve said his feeding has got worse? We found that Gaviscon didn’t work for our little girl and ended up making her constipated, which a lot of people say. We’re using Omeprazole now and it’s certainly making a difference x

Very strange, ours never mentioned anything! We’ve always added it to the bottle and had no issue, you may just need to use the next teat size up if it’s a bit slow 😊

I would just put him on an anti reflux milk.. my son struggled so much and we tried everything from the GP and nothing worked but anti reflux milk.. It’s been a god send for us.. we’ve gone with Hipp organic anti reflux.. you will need a bigger teat as the milk is thicker but honestly it’s good!! X

My boy was on comfort milk but soon as we went to the gaviscon (I do one sachet in every other feed) we went back to the regular formula as comfort formula+gaviscon made him constipated! X

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