Silent reflux on newborn
Hey ladies. I have a newborn who I think might be struggling with silent reflux. My June 2023 baby had colic and reflux so I’m well clued up on those but not silent reflux. I know that baby gaviscon and omeprazole is proscribed for it. Can anyone offer advise on the signs they had and what they said to the drs to make sure they weren’t ignored.
My newborn is constantly grunting in pain, especially after a bottle. He’s mixed fed too and there is no difference between bottle and boob after a feed. We’ve tried infacol (useless) and colief with no results we thought it was wind related at first. He won’t be put down on his back anymore, gets hiccups easily, isn’t sick though (unless straight on his back after a feed). It’s constant as well, not just after a bottle
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Have you thought about CMPA? my little one was the same and then more symptoms started emerging when she was 3/4 weeks old
My son is 3 months and has silent reflux! He is really fussy when feeding and just seems uncomfortable, sounds really congested in the mornings, sounds raspy/wet in the throat after a feed, hiccups & hates laying on his back unless reclined. We went to the doctors initially for noisey breathing so it was diagnosed in ENT last week as he also has Laryngomalacia which often goes hand in hand with reflux. But we just made sure to write down all symptoms and the GP was really good thankfully. Hope you get on okay when you go!
My youngest boy (born Aug 25) had silent reflux and he just seemed to cry all the time. If he wasn't eating or sleeping (when he did manage to sleep which could never be flat) he was so unhappy. He had mucus poops/a lot of runny poos/congested/coughing/sneezing and crying in pain not long after getting his bottle. Health visitor thought it was CMPA but his symptoms weren't entirely consistent with it so focused on silent reflux first.
It took 2months before I got anywhere with doctors and understand they dont want to prescribe medications willy nilly but our boy definitely needed it, he was in pain dear love him. We also give him carobel (this was the first suggestion of doctors) and eventually he started lanzoperazole and it worked wonders for him..a different baby x
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