Guest guest Posted November 12, 2001 Report Share Posted November 12, 2001 Reflux question. For the past month or so, has been all of a sudden having frequent reflux. I remember exactly, it was four days after her MMR vaccine that she started doing these small vomits every day for several days. I was watching her for EVERYTHING at that time, that's how I remember this, though obviously it has nothing to do with the vaccine itself. Every single day, at least a couple times a day (ever since then), she'll have these " urps " I call them, like a burp but something comes up and she swallows it (SORRY!). Then sometimes you'll just see her do a sort of big burp but with no noise, just the physical look of that, then sometimes she'll have a spit-up (not a full blown big vomit) where stuff actually comes out. It's like vomit but there's only a little. I spoke with her ped who suggested we might end up trying Zantac for a while and see if it helps. He said the only other thing to do would be a Ph probe, which I obviously don't want! I say obviously because this reflux doesn't seem to be causing any trouble. She's infection-free at the moment, nothing seems to be resulting from this, so do I need to really do anything about it? Any advice on how to proceed... do I document the episodes? I don't relish the idea of her taking a med when she seems to not be bothered by this. Other than discomfort, why would you take the med if there seems to be no other trouble from it? Thanks for any info... (mom to , age 2-1/2, polysaccharide antibody def, IgA def) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2001 Report Share Posted November 12, 2001 , I suspect a food allergy. Has she tried a new food lately that could be causing her some problems? How about new medicines? I don't think that would just " develop " reflux suddenly. I especially don't think it's linked to the MMR, although I could be wrong. Seems just too coincidental to me. Ray, mother to Tabitha (age 6), Autumn, age 3 (IgG Def., asthma, chronic sinusitis, and allergies), and Duncan Avery, 6 months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hi Natasa, I think the post was number 38746 posted January 23rd.Was it the post regrding melatonin helping reflux disease ? Sharon > > > I posted a paper similar to one below a while ago, would like to trace it > again it was on reflux in kids sucessfully treated with antioxidants... > Does anyone remember more or have it saved? > > nx > > > > Eur J Pharmacol. 2008 Jul 28;589(1-3):233-8. Epub 2008 May 7. > > Effect of quercetin, flavonoids and alpha-tocopherol, an antioxidant > vitamin, on experimental reflux oesophagitis in rats. > > Rao CV, Vijayakumar M. > > Gastropharmacology laboratory, Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology > Division, National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Partap Marg, Lucknow, > Uttar Pradesh, India. ethnopharmacology1@... > > > Protective effect of quercetin and alpha-tocopherol on experimental > reflux oesophagitis in rats was investigated. Rats received quercetin, (100 > mg/kg), alpha-tocopherol (16 mg/kg), omeprazole (30 mg/kg) given at 1 h > prior to surgery. Quercetin and alpha-tocopherol significantly inhibited the > oesophagitis index to 1.33+/-0.12 (P<0.001) and 1.83+/-0.14 (P<0.001) > respectively, as compare to control group 3.5+/-0.21. Further, acid and > pepsin out put of gastric contents were significantly decreased in treated > groups. Indeed, quercetin significantly inhibited the lipid peroxidation > (from 0.69+/-0.05 to 0.43+/-0.04 nmol of malonyldialdehyde (MDA)/mg protein) > (P<0.001) and increased in levels of catalase to 29.5+/-2.7 units of > catalase activity/mg protein and superoxide dismutase (SOD) to 92.4+/-10.5 > units/mg protein (P<0.001). The alpha-tocopherol and omperazole showed > significant inhibition in lipid peroxidation (0.34+/-0.02 and 0.38+/-0.01) > (P<0.01) and enhanced the activities of catalase (34.3+/-3.6 and 31.5+/-3.4) > (P<0.01) and SOD (87.3+/-9.2 and 76.60+/-6.9) activity. Quercetin and > alpha-tocopherol treated group significantly increased the glutathione level > to 36.5+/-2.78 (P<0.01) and 32.1+/-2.34 (P<0.05) respectively. However, it > altered the elevated levels of sialic acid and hexose contents in > oesophageal tissue. Indeed, quercetin significantly decreased the elevated > plasma histamine content (P<0.05). Quercetin and alpha-tocopherol > significantly attenuated the elevated level of collagen in oesophageal > tissue as of the omeprazole. The results suggest that antioxidants could > attenuate the severity of reflux oesophagitis and prevent the oesophageal > mucosal damage and validate its therapeutic use in gastroesophageal reflux > disease. PMID: 18547560 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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