Moms W/ Acid Reflux Child/ren

yes, pink sea salt....I was told about it by Dr. Chalmer's at Chalmers Wellness in Frisco. It has worked amazingly well!

Pink Salt, Premier Research, 12 oz
Looks like you can get it at a few places.
http://www.google.com/search?q=premier+pink+salt&ie=u...

I take 1/2 to 3/4 a tsp each day since I breastfeed...if put in the child's bottle they need 1/8 a tsp through out the day..so just a little with each bottle.

And Dr.Chalmers web address

http://www.chalmerswellness.com/.

I hope this can help other little ones.

Not sure how young your child is but my son was diagnosed with infant reflux and NOTHING worked but for Zantac even the other prescribed medications. I understand your concerns of giving it as with any other Rx but I honestly found nothing that helped. You might want to call a health food store and ask them for some suggestions. Not sure where you are located but there is a great little store in Mesquite on Town East Road called Herb Mart ###-###-#### and across from them is another store called Family Food's ###-###-####. Outside of the expense, the chiro is the way to go if it helps and you want a drug free solution. Most children grow out of this when the start walking and being upright most of the time.
Best Regards,
C.

If you do pink sea salt- make SURE it either has iodine in it or that you supplement with idoral (iodine). Some sea salts do not have iodine and if you become iodine deficient you will be very unhealthy because iodine supports the thyroid- which plays a part in most functions in the body.
Iodine was put in our salt to keep people from iodine deiciecny.

IRON can cause relfux. If you are giving her any supps with IRON you should stop.

zantac cleared it right up in my baby. She was on it for about 2 weeks and we didnt have any problems after that. My husband uses diet to control his, but if your baby is too young for that, I would consider the zantac.

I cured my reflux 99% after I became a Shaklee Independent Distributor. I believe pre and probiotics are what cured me. This is what I take daily:

http://healinghappens.myshaklee.com/us/en/products.php?sk...

if you decide to go this route start very slowly with the prebiotic. Too much too fast can cause gas. Start with about 1/8 the recommended dosage and work up.

My son had infant acid reflux too. I agree with Caroline in that nothing else worked for us either. We didn't use zantac though, our dr. recommended prevacid. It's a pill that dissolves in water (1/2 pill in am, 1/2 in pm). We're actually weening him off it now and he seems to be much better. We don't give the a.m. dose, just the p.m. and he's fine (13 months now). Prevacid was the last resort offered by our Dr. too so it wasn't like he was pushing the meds. It just happened to be the only thing that worked. Good luck.

I am 46 yr old female who had extreme acid reflux for several years and took Aciphex by prescription and also used Rolaids and Tums. It was getting worse so I started taking 2 aciphex tabs a day -- to no avail......I went to see a nutritionalist and she gave suggested a couple of things which have worked so well for me......many people have acid reflux b/c there is not enough digestive enzymes in their tummy so the food is not digesting properly and will come back up the esphogus....Aciphex and Zantac help reduce the acid but it's still not helping digest the food so it will sit their rotting (nutritionist words)....so she recommended we add more acid throughout the day by drinking water with fresh squeezed lemon in it. She also recommended a "tea" made of organic apple cider vinegar -- add a Tbl to a cup of water and sweeten with a natural sweetener. it tastes terrible but it's an amazing cure for acid reflux. She also recommended that I take digestive enzymes on a regular basis --- Schiff brand with ox bile -- I know this sounds like a witch doctor recipe but I promise you I've been off of Aciphex for 3 years and not had any acid reflux or sour stomach since. I'm not sure how well some of this would work for your children, but I'd recommend it highly. Feel better soon -- my nutritionist is at the FEM Centre in Ft.Worth and they are great! Well worth the money to help me feel so much better!

Chiro's won't do anything for you, take your child to a good Osteopath, most likely it is a kink in the child's intestine, one adjustment and the problem should be solved.

Dr. Chalmers just helped my sister with her lil' one by adding a pink sea salt to her diet.....he could tell you how much for the age/size of child. It cleared her reflux in a couple of days.....I was shocked that something so simple worked......

http://chalmerswellness.com