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Questions about Enzymes

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Ratatosk

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DS started taking ezymes about a week after he was born. He was born with a bowel obstruction caused by meconium illeus and wasn't ready to start formula right away as healed. He started taking half a pancreacarb 4? and was later switched to Pancrease MT4s a couple weeks later. He was on a higher calorie formula (more powder to water ratio), so I think by the time he came home at 8 weeks, he was up to 2 1/2-3. And pretty much was on 3-3 1/2 as a baby.

He didn't like applesauce so we used baby food bananas or pears.

He's up to 5-6 pancarease mt4s with meals 2-3 with snacks -- depends on what he eats.

I recall the dietician at the hospital gave us a pamphlet from the CFF explaining giving your baby (later toddler) enzymes. What foods require them, which don't -- fruit juice, fruit, clear candy/popscicles...

DS is 4 1/2 years old now.
 
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Ratatosk

Administrator
Staff member
DS started taking ezymes about a week after he was born. He was born with a bowel obstruction caused by meconium illeus and wasn't ready to start formula right away as healed. He started taking half a pancreacarb 4? and was later switched to Pancrease MT4s a couple weeks later. He was on a higher calorie formula (more powder to water ratio), so I think by the time he came home at 8 weeks, he was up to 2 1/2-3. And pretty much was on 3-3 1/2 as a baby.

He didn't like applesauce so we used baby food bananas or pears.

He's up to 5-6 pancarease mt4s with meals 2-3 with snacks -- depends on what he eats.

I recall the dietician at the hospital gave us a pamphlet from the CFF explaining giving your baby (later toddler) enzymes. What foods require them, which don't -- fruit juice, fruit, clear candy/popscicles...

DS is 4 1/2 years old now.
 
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Ratatosk

Administrator
Staff member
DS started taking ezymes about a week after he was born. He was born with a bowel obstruction caused by meconium illeus and wasn't ready to start formula right away as healed. He started taking half a pancreacarb 4? and was later switched to Pancrease MT4s a couple weeks later. He was on a higher calorie formula (more powder to water ratio), so I think by the time he came home at 8 weeks, he was up to 2 1/2-3. And pretty much was on 3-3 1/2 as a baby.

He didn't like applesauce so we used baby food bananas or pears.

He's up to 5-6 pancarease mt4s with meals 2-3 with snacks -- depends on what he eats.

I recall the dietician at the hospital gave us a pamphlet from the CFF explaining giving your baby (later toddler) enzymes. What foods require them, which don't -- fruit juice, fruit, clear candy/popscicles...

DS is 4 1/2 years old now.
 
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Ratatosk

Administrator
Staff member
DS started taking ezymes about a week after he was born. He was born with a bowel obstruction caused by meconium illeus and wasn't ready to start formula right away as healed. He started taking half a pancreacarb 4? and was later switched to Pancrease MT4s a couple weeks later. He was on a higher calorie formula (more powder to water ratio), so I think by the time he came home at 8 weeks, he was up to 2 1/2-3. And pretty much was on 3-3 1/2 as a baby.

He didn't like applesauce so we used baby food bananas or pears.

He's up to 5-6 pancarease mt4s with meals 2-3 with snacks -- depends on what he eats.

I recall the dietician at the hospital gave us a pamphlet from the CFF explaining giving your baby (later toddler) enzymes. What foods require them, which don't -- fruit juice, fruit, clear candy/popscicles...

DS is 4 1/2 years old now.
 
R

Ratatosk

Administrator
Staff member
DS started taking ezymes about a week after he was born. He was born with a bowel obstruction caused by meconium illeus and wasn't ready to start formula right away as healed. He started taking half a pancreacarb 4? and was later switched to Pancrease MT4s a couple weeks later. He was on a higher calorie formula (more powder to water ratio), so I think by the time he came home at 8 weeks, he was up to 2 1/2-3. And pretty much was on 3-3 1/2 as a baby.

He didn't like applesauce so we used baby food bananas or pears.

He's up to 5-6 pancarease mt4s with meals 2-3 with snacks -- depends on what he eats.

I recall the dietician at the hospital gave us a pamphlet from the CFF explaining giving your baby (later toddler) enzymes. What foods require them, which don't -- fruit juice, fruit, clear candy/popscicles...

DS is 4 1/2 years old now.
 
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semperfiohana

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i don't have a kid yet (one in the oven though <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">), but i have cf and taken enyzmes. i wasn't diagnoised until i was 2. i can remember as a little kid having to take i think 7 enyzmes for a meal. i was on pancrease mt 16 at the time. they adventually lowered it to 5, they base it on height weight and your digestive needs i do believe. i was on ultrase mt 18 for a while to get the free viatmins, but i quit taking the viatmins so i switched back. but while on the ultrase i took 5. now i'm back on pancrease, but on pancrease mt 20 and i take 5 with meals. i'm not much of a snacker so i can't tell you what i take with a snack. if i'm gonna eat, i'm gonna eat. but when i was a little girl and couldn't swollow the pills my mom would break them open and pour them onto applesauce and mix them into it. i can't remember how old i was when i started swollowing them. i am 21 now, 22 in april and i can stick all 5 of them in my mouth and swollow two at a time. i started taking them as soon as i was diagnoised though as far as i know. they tested me for cf was because by the age 2 i had had two rectal prolaspes (sorry if that was too much info). they told my mom that i probably wouldn't see my teenage years, hahaha...boy did i shove that in their faces. my mom fought with insurance and doctors to get me to where i am today though. but i'm sure your daughter will live a long healthy life. do you mind me asking what mutations she has?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't have a kid yet (one in the oven though <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">), but i have cf and taken enyzmes. i wasn't diagnoised until i was 2. i can remember as a little kid having to take i think 7 enyzmes for a meal. i was on pancrease mt 16 at the time. they adventually lowered it to 5, they base it on height weight and your digestive needs i do believe. i was on ultrase mt 18 for a while to get the free viatmins, but i quit taking the viatmins so i switched back. but while on the ultrase i took 5. now i'm back on pancrease, but on pancrease mt 20 and i take 5 with meals. i'm not much of a snacker so i can't tell you what i take with a snack. if i'm gonna eat, i'm gonna eat. but when i was a little girl and couldn't swollow the pills my mom would break them open and pour them onto applesauce and mix them into it. i can't remember how old i was when i started swollowing them. i am 21 now, 22 in april and i can stick all 5 of them in my mouth and swollow two at a time. i started taking them as soon as i was diagnoised though as far as i know. they tested me for cf was because by the age 2 i had had two rectal prolaspes (sorry if that was too much info). they told my mom that i probably wouldn't see my teenage years, hahaha...boy did i shove that in their faces. my mom fought with insurance and doctors to get me to where i am today though. but i'm sure your daughter will live a long healthy life. do you mind me asking what mutations she has?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't have a kid yet (one in the oven though <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">), but i have cf and taken enyzmes. i wasn't diagnoised until i was 2. i can remember as a little kid having to take i think 7 enyzmes for a meal. i was on pancrease mt 16 at the time. they adventually lowered it to 5, they base it on height weight and your digestive needs i do believe. i was on ultrase mt 18 for a while to get the free viatmins, but i quit taking the viatmins so i switched back. but while on the ultrase i took 5. now i'm back on pancrease, but on pancrease mt 20 and i take 5 with meals. i'm not much of a snacker so i can't tell you what i take with a snack. if i'm gonna eat, i'm gonna eat. but when i was a little girl and couldn't swollow the pills my mom would break them open and pour them onto applesauce and mix them into it. i can't remember how old i was when i started swollowing them. i am 21 now, 22 in april and i can stick all 5 of them in my mouth and swollow two at a time. i started taking them as soon as i was diagnoised though as far as i know. they tested me for cf was because by the age 2 i had had two rectal prolaspes (sorry if that was too much info). they told my mom that i probably wouldn't see my teenage years, hahaha...boy did i shove that in their faces. my mom fought with insurance and doctors to get me to where i am today though. but i'm sure your daughter will live a long healthy life. do you mind me asking what mutations she has?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't have a kid yet (one in the oven though <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">), but i have cf and taken enyzmes. i wasn't diagnoised until i was 2. i can remember as a little kid having to take i think 7 enyzmes for a meal. i was on pancrease mt 16 at the time. they adventually lowered it to 5, they base it on height weight and your digestive needs i do believe. i was on ultrase mt 18 for a while to get the free viatmins, but i quit taking the viatmins so i switched back. but while on the ultrase i took 5. now i'm back on pancrease, but on pancrease mt 20 and i take 5 with meals. i'm not much of a snacker so i can't tell you what i take with a snack. if i'm gonna eat, i'm gonna eat. but when i was a little girl and couldn't swollow the pills my mom would break them open and pour them onto applesauce and mix them into it. i can't remember how old i was when i started swollowing them. i am 21 now, 22 in april and i can stick all 5 of them in my mouth and swollow two at a time. i started taking them as soon as i was diagnoised though as far as i know. they tested me for cf was because by the age 2 i had had two rectal prolaspes (sorry if that was too much info). they told my mom that i probably wouldn't see my teenage years, hahaha...boy did i shove that in their faces. my mom fought with insurance and doctors to get me to where i am today though. but i'm sure your daughter will live a long healthy life. do you mind me asking what mutations she has?
 
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semperfiohana

Guest
i don't have a kid yet (one in the oven though <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">), but i have cf and taken enyzmes. i wasn't diagnoised until i was 2. i can remember as a little kid having to take i think 7 enyzmes for a meal. i was on pancrease mt 16 at the time. they adventually lowered it to 5, they base it on height weight and your digestive needs i do believe. i was on ultrase mt 18 for a while to get the free viatmins, but i quit taking the viatmins so i switched back. but while on the ultrase i took 5. now i'm back on pancrease, but on pancrease mt 20 and i take 5 with meals. i'm not much of a snacker so i can't tell you what i take with a snack. if i'm gonna eat, i'm gonna eat. but when i was a little girl and couldn't swollow the pills my mom would break them open and pour them onto applesauce and mix them into it. i can't remember how old i was when i started swollowing them. i am 21 now, 22 in april and i can stick all 5 of them in my mouth and swollow two at a time. i started taking them as soon as i was diagnoised though as far as i know. they tested me for cf was because by the age 2 i had had two rectal prolaspes (sorry if that was too much info). they told my mom that i probably wouldn't see my teenage years, hahaha...boy did i shove that in their faces. my mom fought with insurance and doctors to get me to where i am today though. but i'm sure your daughter will live a long healthy life. do you mind me asking what mutations she has?
 
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Rebjane

Super Moderator
My daughter has pancreatic insuffiency as well. She was born with a meconium ileus. My daughter when she was a baby would take Creon 5, adjusted according to her weight, growth and poops. SHe started her enzymes as a newborn. She has always needed the higher end of the enzyme dose according to our nutritionist. Now at 5 years old she takes Pancreacarb MS 16 4 capsules with meals and 2-3 capsules with snacks. She swallows them whole; has been swallowing the caps since she was 2 years old(before that we opened them up for her in applesauce) SHe also takes Zantac twice a day, to help the enzymes work better. Another thing that has helped her digestion is a probiotic called Culterelle; she takes one capsule once a day. Oh, and my daughter will not eat applesauce, ever, now.
 
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Rebjane

Super Moderator
My daughter has pancreatic insuffiency as well. She was born with a meconium ileus. My daughter when she was a baby would take Creon 5, adjusted according to her weight, growth and poops. SHe started her enzymes as a newborn. She has always needed the higher end of the enzyme dose according to our nutritionist. Now at 5 years old she takes Pancreacarb MS 16 4 capsules with meals and 2-3 capsules with snacks. She swallows them whole; has been swallowing the caps since she was 2 years old(before that we opened them up for her in applesauce) SHe also takes Zantac twice a day, to help the enzymes work better. Another thing that has helped her digestion is a probiotic called Culterelle; she takes one capsule once a day. Oh, and my daughter will not eat applesauce, ever, now.
 
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Rebjane

Super Moderator
My daughter has pancreatic insuffiency as well. She was born with a meconium ileus. My daughter when she was a baby would take Creon 5, adjusted according to her weight, growth and poops. SHe started her enzymes as a newborn. She has always needed the higher end of the enzyme dose according to our nutritionist. Now at 5 years old she takes Pancreacarb MS 16 4 capsules with meals and 2-3 capsules with snacks. She swallows them whole; has been swallowing the caps since she was 2 years old(before that we opened them up for her in applesauce) SHe also takes Zantac twice a day, to help the enzymes work better. Another thing that has helped her digestion is a probiotic called Culterelle; she takes one capsule once a day. Oh, and my daughter will not eat applesauce, ever, now.
 
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Rebjane

Super Moderator
My daughter has pancreatic insuffiency as well. She was born with a meconium ileus. My daughter when she was a baby would take Creon 5, adjusted according to her weight, growth and poops. SHe started her enzymes as a newborn. She has always needed the higher end of the enzyme dose according to our nutritionist. Now at 5 years old she takes Pancreacarb MS 16 4 capsules with meals and 2-3 capsules with snacks. She swallows them whole; has been swallowing the caps since she was 2 years old(before that we opened them up for her in applesauce) SHe also takes Zantac twice a day, to help the enzymes work better. Another thing that has helped her digestion is a probiotic called Culterelle; she takes one capsule once a day. Oh, and my daughter will not eat applesauce, ever, now.
 
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Rebjane

Super Moderator
My daughter has pancreatic insuffiency as well. She was born with a meconium ileus. My daughter when she was a baby would take Creon 5, adjusted according to her weight, growth and poops. SHe started her enzymes as a newborn. She has always needed the higher end of the enzyme dose according to our nutritionist. Now at 5 years old she takes Pancreacarb MS 16 4 capsules with meals and 2-3 capsules with snacks. She swallows them whole; has been swallowing the caps since she was 2 years old(before that we opened them up for her in applesauce) SHe also takes Zantac twice a day, to help the enzymes work better. Another thing that has helped her digestion is a probiotic called Culterelle; she takes one capsule once a day. Oh, and my daughter will not eat applesauce, ever, now.
 
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chipie12

New member
When my son was an infant, we had to open a capsule and give him 3-5 of the little balls of medicne. Now he is up to 5 creon 20 per meal/snack. It goes by weight and food consumption
 
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chipie12

New member
When my son was an infant, we had to open a capsule and give him 3-5 of the little balls of medicne. Now he is up to 5 creon 20 per meal/snack. It goes by weight and food consumption
 
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chipie12

New member
When my son was an infant, we had to open a capsule and give him 3-5 of the little balls of medicne. Now he is up to 5 creon 20 per meal/snack. It goes by weight and food consumption
 
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chipie12

New member
When my son was an infant, we had to open a capsule and give him 3-5 of the little balls of medicne. Now he is up to 5 creon 20 per meal/snack. It goes by weight and food consumption
 
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chipie12

New member
When my son was an infant, we had to open a capsule and give him 3-5 of the little balls of medicne. Now he is up to 5 creon 20 per meal/snack. It goes by weight and food consumption
 
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