Do You Have A Baby With A Milk Allergy?
Posted by: Alan in Milk Allergies, tags: Allergy, Baby, Have, Milk, With
We went to the pediatrician on Thursday for a check up and my daughters two month shots. Just so you know she’s a preemie born two months early – so technically she went around her due date.
The first stinky diaper she had of the day was runny and green. I wasn’t sure what was up with that, so I changed it at the pediatrician and as soon as I put another diaper on her, she did it again – and it smelled to high heaven. So I asked the pediatrician if it was diarrhea. She checked it out and said she was going to test it for invisible blood – which she said “don’t freak out – if it’s there – it’s not a big deal.” She said it came back positive almost immediately and then proceeded to tell us that our daughter has milk allergies and that while I’m breastfeeding I have to abstain from dairy all together. Which is fine, but is this a sudden judgment call? Can they really tell that quickly that that’s what it is? What is this invisible blood? I trust her but my fiance is skeptical.
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November 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
When my daughter was 3 days old (she’s 7 weeks now) we changed her nappy and it was filled with blood. We called the midwife on call and she told us to get her to A&E. We did and after seeing 4 neonatal peds and the surgical team and 10 more boody nappies later (plus a night in hospital) they decided she had allergic colitis due to being allergic to dairy. As I was breastfeeding they told me to stop eating dairy (even trace amounts). I did and the bleeding stopped within 24hrs. As our son, who is 3 has dairy intolerance and has to have soya, I was convinced it would be the same as with him only worse. They told me to re-introduce dairy after 2 weeks but I waited 4 as I was scared. When I finally did start re-introducing dairy back into my diet in tiny amounts she was fine. Now at 7 weeks I can eat normally again and she has no adverse affects.
They can not say for 100% what anything is that quickly but they do see these things all the time and work on the basis that that is what it is most likely to be. If you giving up dairy didn’t work they may try to eliminate something else from your diet. If it turned out that it wasn’t because of something in your diet they would do other tests.
Trust in your doctor, this is her thing.
I’ll be thinking of you, hope all is well.
November 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am
There’s blood in her poop, but you can’t see it. I wonder if she’s allergic or lactose intolerant.
If she’s just lactose intolerant, you could take lactose pills or drink lactaid milk and it would stop the bad poops.