Infant Reflux Severely Impacts Quality of Life

Published: 3 May 2017 In June 2016, the Reflux Infants Support Association surveyed more than 500 parents about their experience caring for an infant with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) in the first twelve months of life. The results were concerning: 1 in 2...

Interim Draft Child Protection Reporting Procedure

1. Overview of the Procedure This procedure provides guidance on reporting, recordkeeping and exchanging information relating to concerns about the safety, welfare and wellbeing of a child or young person. All staff, students, volunteers and Board members should be...

Jo and Charlotte’s “Bio-med” journey

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]So you may have read our previous story. I last wrote about Charlotte when she was two years old. She’ll be five in November. Though we stopped tube feeding her before her second birthday, the battle...

Love Your Guts! Post 1 – The Beginning. Baby is Born.

So there is much discussion around at the moment about what a healthy gut looks like. There’s an extraordinary amount of research going on to determine what the function of that ecosystem of bugs living in our tummies is there for. So I thought we’d start...

Application to have membership fee waived

Reflux Infants Support Association is a not for profit association with charity status. It is run entirely by unpaid volunteers  and we are not in the business of trying to make money. Membership fees are used to educate the public and medical professionals about...