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November 22, 2011
Second Thoughts On Medicines For Babies Who Spit Up Babies have been crying and spitting up since time immemorial. But these days many parents ask: Isn’t there a drug for that? “Parents come in often demanding medication,” says Eric Hassall, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in San Francisco. Prescriptions for acid-suppressing medicines for infants have increased dramatically. Hassall says some parents have picked up on the idea that heavily advertised medicines for reflux in adults can help fussy babies who spit up a lot. He documented a 16-fold increase in prescriptions of one proton pump inhibitor, or PPI, Prevacid, which comes in a child-friendly formulation. A Food and Drug Administration review also found an 11-fold increase in number of new prescriptions dispensed between 2002 and 2009. These medicines aren’t approved for infants with reflux, or GERD. Still, some doctors have been prescribing them off-label anyway.  Read More Dr. Jay’s Note:  If your new addition to the family is struggling with colic or fussiness associated with frequent spitting up, you have many natural options to help improve their health: Diet changes for a breast feeding mom often help. If the little one is bottle fed, look into organic options (be careful with dairy or soy based formulas). Homeopathy works really well on infants without any worries of the nasty side effects that are associated with prescription or over-the-counter drugs. And of course, Chiropractic has a very high success rate as we have helped countless families with this issue in our office - gentle, quick, long-term natural healing.

Second Thoughts On Medicines For Babies Who Spit Up

Babies have been crying and spitting up since time immemorial. But these days many parents ask: Isn’t there a drug for that?

“Parents come in often demanding medication,” says Eric Hassall, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in San Francisco.

Prescriptions for acid-suppressing medicines for infants have increased dramatically. Hassall says some parents have picked up on the idea that heavily advertised medicines for reflux in adults can help fussy babies who spit up a lot.

He documented a 16-fold increase in prescriptions of one proton pump inhibitor, or PPI, Prevacid, which comes in a child-friendly formulation. A Food and Drug Administration review also found an 11-fold increase in number of new prescriptions dispensed between 2002 and 2009.

These medicines aren’t approved for infants with reflux, or GERD. Still, some doctors have been prescribing them off-label anyway.  Read More

Dr. Jay’s Note:  If your new addition to the family is struggling with colic or fussiness associated with frequent spitting up, you have many natural options to help improve their health:

Diet changes for a breast feeding mom often help. If the little one is bottle fed, look into organic options (be careful with dairy or soy based formulas). Homeopathy works really well on infants without any worries of the nasty side effects that are associated with prescription or over-the-counter drugs. And of course, Chiropractic has a very high success rate as we have helped countless families with this issue in our office - gentle, quick, long-term natural healing.

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  1. burggirl reblogged this from drjayweber and added:
    Thank you!! I wish people wouldn’t jusmp to drugs...long run they only make things...
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