Sometimes your child may need more tests such as.
Treatment for baby reflux.
Your child will drink a chalky substance to highlight.
Add rice cereal to your baby s bottle of formula or breastmilk.
Giving your baby smaller more frequent feedings.
Ppis are better at treating gerd symptoms than h2 blockers.
Feeding changes may help your baby s reflux and gerd.
Give more frequent feedings.
How and when to feed your baby.
Burp them more often.
An infant needs to be given these medicines on an empty stomach so that his or her stomach acid can make them work.
Lifestyle and home remedies.
Feed your baby in an upright.
2 they can heal the esophageal lining in infants.
Increasing the frequency.
If your baby is.
Thicken breast milk or formula.
Infant reflux usually clears up by itself.
If the mixture is too thick you can change the nipple size or cut a little x in the nipple to make the opening larger.
Barium swallow or upper gi series.
This is a special x ray test.
Your baby may be more likely to have reflux and to spit up when their stomach is too full.
Your child will swallow a long thin tube with a probe at the tip which will stay in his esophagus for 24.
Check bottle and nipple size.
Doctors often prescribe ppis for long term gerd treatment.
