I need some help figuring out what happened the other night.
My son is on 2 ml 2x's daily of Zantac. I suspected that there may be a MPI with him as well due to gassiness and a few intermittent mucousy poops so I cut out *most* obvious dairy although I never did a complete elimination of all dairy. I started slowly adding some dairy back in my diet and he seemed to handle it ok (coffee creamer, bread, etc.). No more mucousy poops and the crying/sleeping got much better with the meds although we did still have some bad days and I could still hear him refluxing at night.
On Tuesday night I ate some pasta with alfredo sauce. My son was cranky so I ended up stopping eating mid-meal to put him down for a late nap. He had just eaten some pureed pear mixed with water and rice cereal (all of which he has had before) and I nursed him and put him down around 6:30. He woke up shortly after 7 very cranky but I put him in his bath and he was very content playing in the water. After I had got him dressed for bed, he started vomiting and continued vomiting every 5 minutes for about 2 hours (vomiting actual food/milk in the beginning and finally just dry heaving).
He finally fell asleep on me, and then per the nurse's instructions, I let him nurse for about 5 minutes every hour. He kept down his feedings from 11 onwards. The next day he seemed ok but had a very, very mucousy poop late afternoon. Last night was a very fussy night - awake every 2 hours, wanting to nurse constantly, wouldn't sleep in crib.
Could the alfredo sauce have affected him that quickly to cause the vomiting even though I had only eaten 1/2 of my meal and he started vomiting just about an hour after he last nursed from me? I can see it causing the mucousy poop the next day.
I'm just trying to figure out if he really does have a MPI or if it was pure coincidence. I still feel like there is a lot of room for improvement with the reflux and I don't know now if the bad nights are caused by the reflux or a food intolerance.
