Jan
08
2010
For Mom’s Whose Babies Have An Allergy To Cow Milk Protein…?
Posted by: Alan in Milk Allergies, tags: Allergy, Babies, Have, Milk, Moms, Protein, Whose
How did you know your babe had the allergy? I am begining to really wonder if Lilah is allergic to cow milk protein. The child spits up ALL the time – she is 8 months. She also has ezcema which didn’t appear until we introduced formula a few months back.
She seriously spits up sometimes 10 times in a 20 minute period. It’s all the time. She doesn’t act like she hurts, I don’t think it’s just reflux. I have just been told she “will grow out of it”, but I think it’s more than that.
So, if your little one had the allergy to cow milk protein, how did you find out? What were his/her symptoms?
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January 8th, 2010 at 7:34 am
The easiest way to tell is to try her on soy formula for a few days. If it is a milk allergy, her symptoms will clear up. I know it’s horribly inconvenient, but if she’s not in pain, and gaining weight properly, there’s really nothing to worry about. The Enfamil AR really helped Jay keep his formula down. It cut down on his spitting up drastically!
January 8th, 2010 at 7:51 am
A friend of mine found out her baby had a milk allergy just based on a really bad case of eczema. Not to freak you out, but often rashes like eczema are a signal that a baby has a food intolerance or allergy. You sound like you are pretty in tune with your baby so trust your instincts and look into getting her tested.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:25 am
My son is lactose intollerant. He is 28 months now. Initially the allergy was to casein and whey, the proteins in the milk. I was breastfeeding and totally panicked when I found dark brown blood in his poopy nappies around 4 months. His paed said the allergy was causing the bleed high in the gut, hence the dark colour of the blood – it had been digested. He also had eczma and was often irritable.
I was advised to go on a dairy-free diet while breastfeeding. Once he weaned himself (10 months) I used a prescription formula called Alfare until he was 2. Now he drinks soy.
My daughter is 6 weeks old and seems irritated when I’ve had too much milk then fed her. It helps to cut back on dairy, and feed her sitting up. I also cannot lay her down until she’s given at least one big burp or she’ll spit up half her feed.
Infants friend worked wonders for my son, and also for my daughter (I use it before each feed).
January 8th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
At a seminar I went to this week an allergy specialist said that breastmilk was always the best option as exposure to formula in the first 4 months doubles a childs risk of allergies. Eczema and breathing problems, runny nose can all be signs. He said to try soy based formula next as only around 14% of babies with a cows milk allergy will react to soy. It is a much cheaper option than going straight to hydrolised formula which is also bitter and harder to switch babies to. Remember if you plan to have more children breastfeed exclusively for 6 months and continue for two years and beyond as your next one is at a higher risk of allergies due to having a sibling with allergic response. He did not recommend delaying the introduction of common allergans (peanuts, eggs, milk, fish etc) beyond 6 months as research is now showing that leaving introducing these foods until much later may have been causing the increase in allergies we have been seeing. In your case see a specialist and work out a management plan.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
My daughter was. I was exclusively breastfeeding and the only way we found out about it was by blood in her stool. She never was fussy, hardly ever spit up, and rarely had belly problems. I restricted my dairy intake, took calcium supplements, and when I switched my daughter to formula at 7.5 months of age I switched to regular old milk based Enfamil because her Pediatrician said she probably outgrew it, which she did.
ETA: another poster mentioned Soy formula. I don’t remember the reason why, but my Pediatrician told me I couldn’t give soy formula. My only option was an Alimentum type of formula, which is incredibly expensive, thus the reason I continued to breastfeed. So definitely ask your Pedi before trying Soy.
January 9th, 2010 at 1:37 am
My kiddo has a milk protein allergy and we found out while I was breastfeeding because he had blood in his stool (I was eating a diet HIGH in dairy). Talk about scary! He doesn’t have any other symptoms though and when I stopped breastfeeding, we went to soy formula. My ped said to try that before trying the hypo-allergenic formula b/c the hypo-allergenic formula is WAY expensive and that worked out fine for my baby. We’re actually on the next step formula right now and will be until he is 18 months old, but really, you should talk to your pediatrician and do what he or she recommends about alternative formulas.
good luck
January 9th, 2010 at 4:11 am
My Daughters cows milk protein allergy is IEG (in the gut) which is less common. The second the milk passed her lips and went into her throat, she started to have explosive diarrhea which was full of both mucus and blood. She was also covered in eczema, seriously you couldn’t put a pin between the open sores that covered her body. She cried and screamed day and night and had an abnormal shape abdomen. We tried every prescription milk (nutramigen, pepti etc) before she was put onto Neocate as even the small amounts of hydrolised protein in the former two milks caused a reaction in her. We subsequently found out through extensive testing that her skin was so bad because the eczema cream prescribed had peanut oil in it and our Daughter was and still allergic to peanut. She is going to be challenged again at 13 months and we will be given an epi pen for peanut allergy, however as IEG allergies tend to take longer to ease up, she will probably have to avoid dairy until she is at least 3 years of age.
Granted, my Daughters symptoms were extreme as her allergy is chronic (she also has other a-topical allergies) but if you think that your Daughter is exhibiting any signs of discomfort in regards to feeding, then you try to get a referral to see an allergy specialist or at least a pediatrician that specialises in feeding related problems/allergies.