One of my twin sons had severe spit-up problem and as you described, it could be at anytime. Two doctors at our peditrician's office, as well as his GI doctor at CMC, said the smae thing, the medicine for reflux is not to stop the spitting up but to make it less painful. So that's how you get the "happy spitter". He eventually out grew it and we are currently weaning him from the Prevacid.
The suggestions about the formula are worth considering. My other twin would vomit as oppossed to spitting up and it turns out he is lactose intolerant so we switched to a soy formula and had no problems.
My daughter had this until she was about a year old. We even had to take her to children's for testing. She was spitting out up to eight oz of bottle at a time. It was so bad. They put her on Zantac too and we had to switch to soy formula instead of the regular stuff, but to be honest, nothing helped. Until she started eating more solid foods, like peas and carrots, that kind of thing, she was just miserable. Just hang in there. She will grow out of it, I promise. At 5 months, she should be able to eat the more solid foods, I would try that route first and forget all the medicines!!!
my son had the same thing. when he was about 2 months old, i was finally fed up with it and went to the doctors and told them they better do something about it. so, they checked him out and said he had pyloric stenosis which is another word for reflux. its good to get it taken care of because i guess they can die from that. =[
My daughter had this from the time she was born until she was about 13months. The doctor told me that some babies just do this. As long as the baby is gaining weight and doesn't cry when it happens, they are fine. My daughter constantly spit up, it became very embarrassing. We went through what seemed like hundreds of bibs, wipes, etc. The doctor told me she would grow out of it when she started walking on her own, and what do you know as soon as she started walking on her own she stopped spitting up. It was unbelieveable. I did find out though that when I gave her regular milk she would start spitting up again. She does excellent on Soy "Silk" Milk. I tried the Soy Formulas but they never helped.
Wow…I am overwhelmed by the responses I received!! Thank you all soooooooo much! I have copied and pasted the info for the parents to see. They are going to the doctor later this week and will present their concerns and some of your suggestions…it certainly will help them as first time parents having info from experienced ones!!! You are all wonderful. I will let you know what the conclusion is…