Zantac for Baby in Bottle?

I wouldn't recommend putting it in the bottle. As gross as it is, she will get the medicine better if you use a dropper and put it directly in her mouth. My daughter hated it, too, but she did sort of get used to it after awhile. Point it toward her cheek, fairly far back in her mouth to get her to swallow most of it. My doctor also told me that, even when she spits it out, she's swallowing a lot more than you realize. It just looks like it's all coming back out.

How did the doctor instruct you to administer it? If he or she didn't call the office to find out.

But I am guessing the best way is to point the syringe into her cheek and chuck under her chin with your fingers to get her to swallow it, before she has a chance to taste it and spit it out. This always worked best with my little ones.

My son took it and I mixed it in 1-2 oz of breastmilk that way if you give a little bit you know they get the full dose. Congrats on the new baby

haha, yes that stuff tastes awful! It was prescribed for my son at 4 weeks old, and I got that same look. So I tasted it. It is pretty bad indeed :0)

As far as putting it in the bottle, here are the concerns:
1) If baby does not finish the bottle, she does not get the full dose, and you dont know how much she really got either so you really cant give more.
2) It might make the whole bottle taste nasty and she will refuse and then you are wasting both the medicine and the formula.

I just got in the habit of giving it to him quickly with the medicine syringe and then giving him a bottle immediately afterwards. He got used to it and it was not so bad anymore. We just stopped at 5 months old.

My daughter was also prescribed zantac at a young age. I always used the dropper that they gave me with the zantac and gave her a little bit at a time near the back of the side of her mouth and immediately followed with a bottle. After a few times she got used to it and we didn't have any problems with her taking it. Good luck and I hope you find something that works well for you and baby!

Our pediatric GI told us to administer the Zantac at least 15 minutes before feeding (preferably 30 minutes). If not, it really doesn't have a chance to work (at least, that's what we were told). Our daughter started it around 8wks. She hated it at first too, but we did the cheek method others have mentioned and she got used to it.

We used a different med but we used a syringe and gave it to him about 10-15 minutes before the food went in. This gave the med time to coat the stomach and to relax the muscles on the bottom so they would open better and allow more of the formula to go to the intestines where it needs to go to be digested.

The med would not work if we gave it in the bottle. The formula would have coated the stomach and then med would not have been where it needed to be to relax the muscles on time so it would have worked after he had already puked up the formula.

I think asking the pharmacist this question is best. They know what it does in the stomach once it goes in.

I would seriously think it should be given before any food. She'll get used to it or they can do some flavoring for her.

The Reglan we used was orange flavored and he loved it.

I would be concerned that she would begin to associate the bottle with a terrible taste and might start to reject the bottle.

Ask the doctor. But if you were told to use a syringe (which is usually how liquids are administered to infants), do that instead. Don't risk her either not getting a full dose or learning to dislike her bottle.

My daughter was on zantac for over a year as a baby. DO NOT put it in the bottle, it will not do what it is supposed to. Zantac needs to be given at least 15 min before any food for it to start working, otherwise it will just come back up with any formula she spits up. You are right about 1 thing though it tastes horrible, for my daughter it was kinda an orange mint taste, yuck.

Ask your pedi about alternatives to zantac. My son took it and I didn't know there were alternatives at the time. He was breast fed and always wanted to nurse afterwards - and let's just say....ouch that stuff burns! I can't believe after all this time they don't make a flavor other than peppermint. That's got to be a shock to a baby who has only ever tasted milk!

Use the syringe, and aim it at the back corner of her mouth. Don't put it in the bottle because she might leave formula in the bottle and end up not finishing the medicine as a result. It's important that she finish.

My brother's daughter has to take this, and she loves it because it's minty.

It does taste terrible - ours was flavored fo our infant daughter in peppermint? WHAT? Why don't they make baby meds taste like milk? Don't put it in the bottle, she may not get it all if she doesn't finish the formula - we also found it works better if the meds are given a while before eating.

We started with Zantac, liquid - and put in the syringe, stuck it way back in her mouth to he back corner and squirted, she cried and struggled, and finally took it, but it was never fun, and it didn't solve our problems with reflux. We asked to switch to Prevacid granules/tablets - she got a half tab, and we took it and rubbed it inside her cheek till it dissolved, it was strawberry flavored, and she dealt with it way better and it worked better too! We did eventually find a pacifier that was a medicine holder and she would suck other meds out of that, but that was way after we were through with Zantac.

We also bought a Tucker Sling Wedge for her and she slept on it for 3-4 months, it helped ALOT, she also spent lots of time being held semi upright, or in the bouncy chair, or in the swing, for up to a half hour after being fed. You cna find the tucker slings here: http://tuckersling.com/ or used on eBay or Craigslist - that is where we got ours.

Good Luck, hopefully she will grow out of it - our girl did at about 6 months.

I've had several kiddos on Zantac and yes it tastes terrible, but they either get used to it or somehow know that it is helping them feel better, because they take it very well.

I have always given it right before a bottle.

Hope the medicine helps your little one.

M