Re: anyone else use Reglan?

December 30, 2002

Our son was born at 35 weeks and ended up in the NICU because of

reflux, nothing else. The put him on zantac and reglan. Eventually

they switched him from zantac to prilosec and we went home a week

after his due date. By the time we was three months old he was

throwing up ALL the time. There was no indication of anything else

wrong with him (colds, viral or bacterial, etc.) so they switched him

from reglan to urecholine (another name for bethanochol I believe.)

It's worked a little better until we needed to increase the meds. I

think we are approaching time to increase again. From the reading I

did I found that the major difference between reglan and urecholine

is on WHAT it empties faster. Reglan works to empty the stomach

faster, urecholine works to empty the bladder faster. Reglan also has

more side-effects that I think any of us would prefer to avoid.

That's my input....

Crystal

mom to Adam 10mo w/cf, le 3yr nocf.

> My 21 month old has been on Reglan (metaclopromide) since October

to

> curb his vomiting. He was and still is vomiting about 2 times a

day--

> and not just a little spit up--it is ALL of his tummy contents.

> Luckily he is exclusively g-tube fed so it is all liquid but it is

> still a pain. He just threw up in the Hyatt hotel lobby. I had to

> have my husband run him over to the corner of the elevator area so

> people wouldn't slip on it!! ugh. Anyway, has anyone else's child

> been put on reglan for vomiting? I don't think it is working at

all

> and there are some bad side effects with long term use.

>

> He is also on Prilosec. We want to avoid having a Nissen

> fundoplication but can't seem to get the vomiting resolved any

other

> way. HELP!

>

> (mom to Ashton 21 months wcf, 11 weeks premature,

ulcerative

> collitis)

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