I think there was a thread on this a few months ago.

The  AR formula is advertised in the health professional journals in the UK
but as far as I can tell is not widely used. It is advertised as part of
MJ's range of  'speciality'  formulas.  A call to my local branch of Boots
(large chain of pharmacies in UK) told me they did not stock it. Hurrah!

The tin says it is for infants with 'reflux or repeated possetting'.

Reflux is not diagnosed here - can't say I have ever personally come across
a baby whose doctor said he had it. The only time I ever see much about
reflux is in Australian and US sources! Nursing Mothers of  Australia once
had a whole issuebof their journal devoted to it, I remember, and I recall
thinking 'just what *is* this reflux?'

Looks like our British babies just don't suffer from it ;  ) ....more
likely we just call it something else.

Possetting is what we call spitting up, and mothers are encouraged by HPs
not to regard it as a medical or feeding problem on the whole, I am glad to
say.  Sometimes mothers are told they have a 'sicky' baby (not sick, or
sickly, but sicky - just means the baby throws up a lot without being ill).
The advice would be to wrap the baby in a cloth after feeding and not to
jiggle the baby about...of course it is a nuisance, but as Pat Thomas says,
it's a laundry problem more that anything.

If we get a call from a mother worried about it, we firstly check it's not
projectile, and the baby's thriving,  then we talk about ways to cope.

I sincerely hope MJ find the market here is not a good one. I have
completely turned off Paddington Bear...on the British tins he is gruesomly
dressed in a doctor's gown with chart and stethoscope....same elsewhere I
should think.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bcf Newcastle upon Tyne UK