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"Sorry sarah for seroiusly late reply, but not been on here for while...chicken pox, ear infection, general busy life, etc. Ben's night wakings have been much reduced with combo of meds increase & me being careful with his diet…"

"we were also told not to restrict his diet, but to keep a food diary and keep note of what affects him.  we were lucky as we'd already worked out that the latex group foods (plus dairy and soya) were affecting him, so we have a list and…"

"hi sarah how often does ben get the night waking/flare ups now with the kind of diet you have described?can you always work out the trigger? thanks"

"Hi my Ben is 21mths on 20mg Omep. Previously wheat free as set off asthma symptoms but have managed to wean him back onto it thankfully. Not been tested for allergies (other than milk/dairy free trial when 1st diagnosing severe reflux), but…"

"http://www.littlerefluxers.co.uk/forum/topics/latex-food-groups   try this post for some ideas.  the only reason i suggest it is that a lot of people on here seem to have reactions to the same sorts of things. initially it was suggested…"

"put it this way, Annabel, when I cut out egg out off Nadia's diet (on the top of soya and milk free diet), she stopped waking up every half-an-hour to an hour every night. started sleeping longer stretches and less irritated. to me it is enough…"

"Hi Anna,   Has she got allergies or intolerance to these foods, and how did you work out what was causing problems?  Robbies has cows milk and egg allergy, but now I am wondering if he has some intolerances going on aswell/  Its a…"

"hi Kerry,   Thanks for your reply!  Yes I am so glad there is something that helped his symptoms and also makes me very grateful for our NHS system as I feel I am constantly getting prescriptions!  From reading other comments it seems…"

"Hi I have a 19 month old on 28 mg omerazole as advised by GOSH. She weighs 10 kg. 3 mg per kg seems to be the max non specialsts will prescibe but can go up to 3.5 mg per kg. I have now cut out domperidone and not made any difference. Xx"

"Harry is 26mths and still on 10mg omeprazole and dairy free.  I also feel as if we're getting nowhere, as he's been static on this for a year since dropping from 15mg.  Saw Dr Shah at gosh who said 'leave him alone til…"

"this is exactly what happens to us everytime we reduce from 20mg, we get the same as you.  again, varies from between an immediate effect, to about 3 or 4 days of grumpiness, not sleeping etc etc and when you up to 20mg again, all is well and…"

"my girl is 18 months, on 20mg omeprazole and egg,wheat,soya and milk free diet   her reflux is finally under control unfortunately her pead wants to reduce her medication with our next appointment, which is beginning of june i dread it…"

"I wish these comments had a like button like on Facebook :-) My son has GORD diagnosed at 9m when terrible damage was done.  For months I was fobbed off 'sicky baby' etc.  A frind of mine had a new baby who later was diagnosed…"