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[BUGED]

I have a 5 week old baby boy who is so constipated he is on Karicare AR for reflux which is not bad at all but the formula is not helping him poo i was thinking of changing back to the normal Karicare, could that hurt him and should it hwlp with the constipation?

[DoubleDelight]

If he has reflux then yes changing from AR back to normal will affect him. If he's constipated try putting a little prune juice either in water between every second feed or in every second formula bottle

[BabelFish]

My DD got terribly constipated on Karicare as well. She was also a reflux baby and we put her on Nan HA formula - the one that says on the tin `easy to digest' and it sorted her out completely.

She was on Losec for her reflux so we didn't have to get her a special formula.

I think Karicare is a real problem for constipation.

Is your bub on any medication? Our DD started for reflux at 4 weeks and it made such a huge difference to her little life - she was always in pain until we started Losec.

[smudge26]

Have you just started on the Karicare AR? My son is on that too for reflux. For the first week he was quite constipated and I was going to switch back to normal formula because he appeared to have bad tummy ache but we persevered with it and now he's very regular. I think it just took a week or 2 for his body to get used to the thicker formula.