Preston’s Tummy Issues Continue
Preston had been doing quite a bit better recently. He was back to being a happy little boy but we could certainly tell when we were nearing the 4th hour from the last time that he had his medication. He would get a little fussy and you could tell he was starting to feel pain a little bit. We called the Dr and they decided to move him from his current prescription of Zantac over to a medicine called Prevacid. The first night that he got the Prevacid was not a good one. He began to get fussy and we gave him his first dosage of Prevacid – things went way downhill and unfortunately we had no way to tell if it was the medication he was given, the adjustment that he had earlier, or just pure coincidence. He was miserable yet again for about 3 hours or more.
The picture says it all
Thankfully he did well after about midnight and he slept for Alisha. In the morning we debated giving him the Prevacid but we needed to know what was going on by ruling out some possible causes. We didn’t know if it was the Prevacid or not, but we decided to keep giving it to him to determine if that was the cause or not. Fortunately we found that it was not the cause as he had a very good day the next day. We still to this day dint know the cause and can only say that maybe it is a coincidence. It just seems to be quite a bit more frequent lately that he is bothered by his little tummy.
Preston is currently taking Zantac (for only a few more days), Prevacid (going forward), gripe water, and hycosamine for his poor little tummy. It kills me to see him in pain when he is, and makes me wonder what in the heck else could cause all of this…. is it really just acid reflux???? ugh. All in all he is a good baby and a happy baby… but when he has his miserable times it is heart wrenching.
