Nutrition: Myself, Maalox

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Constipation in 3.5 Year Old

Back story - my daughter has been battling an inner and middle ear infection for the past week. Horribly painful (outer ear = swimmer's ear) and she didn't eat almost at all for a few days. She's on an antiobiotic now but the past five days, she's been constipated and will not poop in the toliet. She runs to it when she has to go but then says she doesn't have to go. She's pooped in her underwear 3-4 times now (which has never happened until now) and had a pee accident every day for the last five days. The ped said the pee accidents may be...

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Giving Infant a Solutab

Hello! I have a 2 part question. 1) My 5 week old has been diagnosed with GERD. She was put on Zantac which didn't work and then switched to Prevacet. The Prevacet is a solutab (tablet that dissolves into granules). I was told to dissolve the tablet in a very small amout of water and then give her the pill with a syringe dropper. My problem is that the medicine is hard to dispense that way and most of it ends up running down her chin or stuck in the dropper. Have any other mothers had to give their infant a solutab and what method...

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Infant with Reflux

I have a almost 5 month old baby boy with reflux. He was born 13 weeks early...