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Acid suppressants for babies don’t work

Megan Haggan 23/02/2018

GPs are over-prescribing acid suppressant medicines for babies with GORD and reflux, new research has found The report, in Archives of Disease in Childhood, is based on a prospective study of about 1000 GPs who were surveyed annually and who recorded details of 100 consecutive visits with consenting, unidentified patients between 2006-2016. Of all infants’

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