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I'm looking for the difference from a patient's perspective. Thanks

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Hi!

Thank you in advance for reading this.

A child 5 year old had spitting, reflux, and vomiting problems since infancy. Vomiting at some point was a daily thing.

Doctors said that the daily vomiting will go away with time as he has what they described a sensitive digestion system that the texture of certain foods is causing the vomiting. This kept going on and slightly improved with time.

At the age of 4 a specialist prescribed PPIs (nexium) for 6 weeks and it helped a lot. The specialist mentioned that the stomach valve need to heal and grow to work properly. The 6 weeks helped a lot, but the kid now at the age of 5 still vomits or has a reflux (we can smell the stomach acid) when they have a bad cold with coughing. Coughing triggers vomiting. No more daily vomiting but we suspect some silent reflux or heartburn, but we can't be sure as 5 year old aren't good at describing such things. Oh, during bad colds with coughing, vomiting becomes almost daily.

I didn't use the words GERD, LRP, or any diagnosis on purpose because I want a fresh eye looking at this as we're looking at identifying this and we're looking for a new approach to fix this.

In your opinion, what is this? What should we do next? We want to advocate for the child when meeting doctors.

P.S. the kid teeth have some damage from the reflux/vomiting and we're seeing a dentist. I thought I should mention this.

Hi!

Thank you in advance for reading this.

A child 5 year old had spitting, reflux, and vomiting problems since infancy. Vomiting at some point was a daily thing.

Doctors said that the daily vomiting will go away with time as he has what they described a sensitive digestion system that the texture of certain foods is causing the vomiting. This kept going on and slightly improved with time.

At the age of 4 a specialist prescribed PPIs (nexium) for 6 weeks and it helped a lot. The specialist mentioned that the stomach valve need to heal and grow to work properly. The 6 weeks helped a lot, but the kid now at the age of 5 still vomits or has a reflux (we can smell the stomach acid) when they have a bad cold with coughing. Coughing triggers vomiting. No more daily vomiting but we suspect some silent reflux or heartburn, but we can't be sure as 5 year old aren't good at describing such things.

I didn't use the words GERD, LRP, or any diagnosis on purpose because I want a fresh eye looking at this as we're looking at identifying this and we're looking for a new approach to fix this.

In your opinion, what is this? What should we do next? We want to advocate for the child when meeting doctors.

P.S. the kid teeth have some damage from the reflux/vomiting and we're seeing a dentist. I thought I should mention this.