Add rice cereal to your baby s bottle of formula or breastmilk.
Treatment for baby reflux.
Barium swallow or upper gi series.
Give more frequent feedings.
Doctors often prescribe ppis for long term gerd treatment.
Lifestyle and home remedies.
Feeding changes may help your baby s reflux and gerd.
Increasing the frequency.
How and when to feed your baby.
Giving your baby smaller more frequent feedings.
If your baby is.
An infant needs to be given these medicines on an empty stomach so that his or her stomach acid can make them work.
Your child will swallow a long thin tube with a probe at the tip which will stay in his esophagus for 24.
Ppis are better at treating gerd symptoms than h2 blockers.
Feed your baby in an upright.
Burp them more often.
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.
Sometimes your child may need more tests such as.
How to treat silent reflux if treatment is needed your child s pediatrician may recommend gerd medications such as h2 blockers or proton pump inhibitors to help reduce the amount of acid made by.
Check bottle and nipple size.
This is a special x ray test.
2 they can heal the esophageal lining in infants.
Your baby may be more likely to have reflux and to spit up when their stomach is too full.
Your child will drink a chalky substance to highlight.
Your doctor will start with a physical exam and questions about your baby s symptoms.