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Date: | Thu, 22 May 1997 11:29:17 -0400 |
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>My second child had reflux and excema. Taking dairy products out of my
>diet eliminated the excema but NOT the reflux. I kept her upright most
>of her first six months of life. I did not feed her lying down. We got
>up and nursed in the rocker at night. If I was too tired to hold her
>after she fell asleep, I put her in the crib which had an elevated
>mattress on one end. The crib was next to my bed so I could hear if she
>began to spit up. She stopped spitting up at six months of age.
I do think that we need to be mindful that reflux can be caused by more
than one problem. Sometimes it may be dairy (allergy), but it can also be
a loose esophageal sphincter. I had one baby of four with the latter,
and he spat up until he became vertical-- learned to walk, also
regardless of diet. Another baby I worked with who had severe reflux
ended up developing pyloric stenosis and had surgery.
-Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC
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