Jan
24
2010
Breastfeeding Mothers: What Is Your Experience With Dairy Or Food Allergies Gong Through Your Milk To Baby?
Posted by: Alan in Milk Allergies, tags: Allergies, Breastfeeding, Dairy, Experience, Food, Gong, Mother's, What, With, Your
My baby is coming up on 5 months. My baby is/ has been colicky, spits up frequently, sometimes 2-3 times after every feeding, violent explosive poops, green poop, slimy poop. She used to poop every other day, now she poops 5-6 times a day. I think it is diarrhea. How did you figure out it was a food allergy and what did you do about it?
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January 24th, 2010 at 10:25 am
First, you can do an elimination diet to narrow down what foods might be causing this. Once you have some suspects, your baby can have a skin prick test by an allergist or her pediatrician or family doctor can order a RAST test (blood test) and test for those specific foods.
However, her symptoms sound like it could be lactose intolerance. If she’s recently taken a course of antibiotics or had a stomach bug, either of those things could have wiped out the population of good bacteria in her gut and caused either LI or any number of other digestion problems.
January 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
The only way to determin if it is a food allergy is to cut out all possible offending foods for several days and then slowly add them back in and track what time you ate things and when your baby exhibits symptoms. Is your baby nursing long enough to get hindmilk? Mine gets the green, slimey poop when he nurses for short periods of time and gets too much foremilk.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
My boys had a sensitivity to things that i would eat that would make their reflux worse and cause diarrhea, the dr said that is a common problem and that you should elimate things from your diet while nursing to see how they react. Dairy is the most common thing that affects the breastmilk.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I hope this link is helpful for you:http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/lac…http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/foo…
January 25th, 2010 at 3:36 am
My baby has problems when I eat dairy. I went to a GI specialist and confirmed it. Now I just don’t eat dairy.
January 25th, 2010 at 4:24 am
I would definitely take her to the pediatrician. You don’t want her to get dehydrated from this issue.