RANITIDINE ??

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Permalink Reply by Sim on October 2, 2008 at 8:34

thank goodness you got it sorted! i am so pleased lewis didnt come to any harm. it scared the hell out of me when i thought they put amelia on the wrong dosage til someone explained, but then it would have been too little not too much.
fingers crossed for you and Lewis now xxx

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on October 2, 2008 at 9:13

Hi Jo,

Really glad you got it sorted. It's surprising how often this happens. A similar thing happened to us in hospital recently. Callum was having an MRI scan of his brain and needed sedating. The Dr wrote him up for what he thought was the correct dose (off the top of his head) The medicine didn't work so I asked them to check the dosage. They refused. Turns out they had given him an 18x too small an amount. I'm so so thankful it was too small and not too large. It was an unfamiliar medicine for the nurses but they didn't even think to check. The pharmacist let it pass too! If it was the other way around and he had had an 18x too large dose, he would have died. They had to fill out an incident report and we heard nothing nor got an apology.

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Permalink Reply by Emma on October 2, 2008 at 9:23

This web site is such a god send ! So glad that you got it sorted out!

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on October 3, 2008 at 8:24

Hi there, just seen your message - so glad you have got this sorted did think this sounded really high! I don't think it's a problem to mix it with milk, we did this for a long time. Just need to add to a very small amount if milk in the bottom of the bottle - as if you add to a full bottle then your baby might not finish and got get the full dose.

Just because your baby doesn't like it now, they might learn to love it. Liam used to hate Domperidone and now try to snatch the syringe from me and shove it in his mouth as he loves it so much. He prefers it to milk which is not ideal!

Rebecca

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Permalink Reply by jo fawcett on October 3, 2008 at 21:15

Hi, thanks for all the replies over the last few days.It feels so helpful to have your support and to know we are all not on our own. Lewis has been to see the Paed today and confirmed the Ranitidine doesage to be 0.3 mls!!!! Has also put him on a milk thickner (think it begins with "c" but has to be ordered from the chemist so not got it yet) also to continue with the infant gaviscon. We are early days with the Relux as Lewis has had heart problems since birth and was always treated as a "heart" baby with everything else being second priority at that time.
I hope all of you are managing to keep strong and get through whatever your little ones throw at you (literally!) and thanks again for helping.
JO xx

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