Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Periactin
Noah started Periactin on Thursday in an effort to increase his appetite and motivate him to eat. It appears thus far that it has the additional effects of keeping him from coughing, being congested, or vomiting. He took Periactin on Thursday and Friday with no vomit (two days in a row is a record!). We didn't give him any on Saturday or Sunday and he vomited both days, along with early Monday morning. Then we again started Periactin and no more vomit Monday or today (yes, that's right - almost 4 out of the last 6 days without any vomit). If this trend continues it could mean amazing things in terms of Noah feeling safe and comfortable around food, not to mention a huge decrease in laundry. Too bad he can't take it on the weekends.
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Can he take zyrtec on weekends instead? We have found that a daily antihistamine has absolutely helped Hallie. She does better on zyrtec than periactin, and doesn't really eat more on the latter than the former, so we moved over to zyrtec. But either way, the side benefit is that she is not as congested and tends to vomit a WHOLE LOT less.
We already do Zyrtec on the weekends. He was on Zyrtec full time and it helped with the congestion but not the vomit. Periactin, however, seems to take care of that. I'm hoping there'll be a little more of it in his system (5 days on this week instead of 2 last week) to hold him over for at least some of the weekend.
I am curious, why can't he take it on the weekends?
Hi, my son is 17 months old and a CHRONIC vomiter...6-7 times per day...usually directly after eating. The Reglan helps with the "several hours later" vomit...I'm wondering what is behind your sons vomit (if you know) and if Periactin is something we might ask about...do you know why it decreases vomiting? P/S/ I love your blog! Thanks! We are ready to try anything...we have an endoscopy at the end of this month, but so far we have found no reason for the vomiting.
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