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LO was on Zantac from week 2 to six months. It doesn't stop them from refluxing it stops the acid production so it stops burning their throat. So in that essence her hoarse voice went away after a couple days.

@Mrs. Deer: Zantac worked for one of my kids and didn't for the other. We ended up on Prevacid for DS. You may want reach out to @Mae. She dealt with major food refusal (bottle and nursing I think), silent reflux, and MSPI. She would probably have some tips on ways she got food into her daughter. I hope something eases up soon. It must be exhausting, especially with an older LO to care for as well!

@Mrs. Deer: I have a blog post I'll dig up for you about our experience with reflux and with both meds.

LO wasn't on Zantac but when he got on the right reflux medication, we saw a difference in a week.

I wrote a post on here at length a couple of years ago, but our first daughter was diagnosed with reflux and put on Zantac. She was seen by multiple doctors and LCs, and only when I came across my own tongue tie research online, found a somewhat local specialist, fought my husband and family who told me I was crazy, and went to see the specialist, did we get a tongue tie and upper lip tie diagnosis. It was that, that was causing the reflux, so the Zantac couldn't do anything but somewhat mask the problem. Once her upper lip tie and tongue ties were fixed, the reflux vanished the same day, after 6 months of it (plus colic, gas, arching when eating, flat out refusal to nurse, etc. all vanished), and she was finally, for the first time since being a sleepy newborn, willing to nurse. It's worth checking into--it's very common. A couple awesome websites with info are: http://drghaheri.squarespace.com/
http://www.kiddsteeth.com/articles.php?mode=desktop

No matter what, I hope your LO feels better and is able to eat.

@Mrs. Deer: Ugh, Zantac tastes horrible. My boys are awesome medicine takers but that is the worst one weave get had to deal with! Sometimes we put it in just a couple few ml of milk (or even just put a bit if milk in the bottom of the syringe) so the first taste would be milk instead of the terrible Zantac flavor. We also just put the syringe as far back and onto their cheeks as we could so it was harder to spit out.

Sorry you're dealing with this, we were there too, so frustrating! Make sure to pump to keep up your milk supply, if I had, we probably wouldn't be where we are right now

Anyway, no, the Zantac didn't work for us and we switched to Omeprezole. He spits a large portion of it out every night. I think it worked, but at that point my milk supply had taken a hit too, so its hard to know what was really the problem. Now we're seeing an OT therapist and supplementing at the breast with an SNS. Its getting better finally...