Treatment for Acid Reflux in Babies

There is a wide variety of treatment options when dealing with acid reflux and babies. A baby's digestive system is so immature and needs something gentle. Some of the products we tried were:

1. Colic Calm. We really liked this product. We found great reviews and felt great knowing that it was an all natural product. The only negative feedback was that it is black (due to the vegetable charcoal) and that wasn't as bad as I thought it would. Granted, he would spit up once in a while and his bib would get black, but would come out when you pre-treated it.

2. Prevacid. This did help him, but it treated the symptoms (spitting up, etc...) and wasn't treating the root of the problem. Which is his tummy wasn't digesting his milk. Plus, it was expensive. I think we have good health insurance, but it was still costing us $50 a month for the Prevacid. Side effects (according to drugs.com) are:

• headache;

• nausea, stomach pain;

• diarrhea; or

• constipation

The strange thing is when I picked up the prescription from the pharmacy, the list of side effects said 'none'. We didn't want to keep him on this for a long time, so we continued our research of all natural things that could help his reflux.

3. Probiotics. More to come on this one.