The reflux adventure continues.  Our wonderful doctor prescribed Zegerid, which is what we wanted to try, but it may take several days to become effective, so Daniel will need to continue Zantac for a while.  The doctors and pharmacists don’t seem to know this, but the parents in the forums do.  So there is a light at the end of the tunnel, just the tunnel is probably 5 to 14 days longer.

One of the worst things about the Zantac is the insomnia.  A baby screaming with acid in his throat is very pitiful.  But another pitiful thing is a two-month-old baby that wants to sleep so bad try everything in his little power to try to induce sleep.  Daniel has only gotten about half the sleep he should since starting Zantac.  And lately, even that sleep is really difficult to achieve and can usually only occur with Daniel laying on Mama or Mimi.  So pray this new drug kicks in quickly so we can finally get Daniel off Zantac and finally get this poor baby some sleep.

Another evil of Zantac is that it can become ineffective with time.  We don’t know if this has happened or if he outgrew his dose, but toward the end of the 12-hour period after taking Zantac, Daniel will have acid pain.  So the poor thing has all the bad side effects and the acid.  Yesterday morning he cried for an hour with acid pain.  After Papa consoled him to sleep he laid him down and this is what Daniel did.  He’s just expressing his true feelings about acid.