Add rice cereal to your baby s bottle of formula or breastmilk.
Treatment for baby reflux.
Sometimes your child may need more tests such as.
Burp them more often.
Your child will drink a chalky substance to highlight.
Feed your baby in an upright.
Thicken breast milk or formula.
Lifestyle and home remedies.
Give more frequent feedings.
Check with the doctor about how much to add.
Infant reflux usually clears up by itself.
An infant needs to be given these medicines on an empty stomach so that his or her stomach acid can make them work.
Your baby may be more likely to have reflux and to spit up when their stomach is too full.
Barium swallow or upper gi series.
Your doctor will start with a physical exam and questions about your baby s symptoms.
This is a special x ray test.
How and when to feed your baby.
Your child will swallow a long thin tube with a probe at the tip which will stay in his esophagus for 24.
Increasing the frequency.
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.
If your baby is.
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.
Giving your baby smaller more frequent feedings.
Ppis are better at treating gerd symptoms than h2 blockers.
2 they can heal the esophageal lining in infants.
