Possible Cows milk protien intolerance?

[Jadee]

Hello :hugs:

I was wondering what everyones thoughts are, our 13 week old DD is now being treated for cows milk protien intolerance and is improving in leaps and bounds. Which has lead me to think about her two older sisters.

DD1 had severe relflux and vomitted whole feeds regularly until about 1 1/2 and now is six and by choice rarely eats dairy products she prefers fruits and veg.

DD2 who is three however has suffered from constipation since she was an infant, I have treated her through our natroupath and her diet but think that there could be a connection with milk. She drinks lots of milk but while we were away for the week she didn't drink any and had much softer bowel motions. Now we are home she is back to the same again.

I am going to ask our paed because I thought that she would have grown out of it if she had CMPI.

Could she have an intolerance or have had, this is all new to me. I would love to hear others thoughts.

[ikis84]

I thought an intolerance would be more likely to cause loose stools, than constipation *shrugs*. Hope you find out :yes:

[Mrs Little]

My DS1 & 2 both have intolerances and their stools were very firm (hence the difficulties in getting anyone to listen to me about both my sons pains). Our issues were with constipation like symptoms too.

Definately worth asking your pead. However, i too asked my pead. after DS2 was diagnosed a few weeks ago. I give DS1 psyllium husks (have been since he was 1.5yrs old) and they work wonders, i didn't know what else was wrong with him at that time. Never had any more issues with bowel motions. Maybe you could try that with DD2? The pead. told me that DS1 shouldn't have it anymore. He doesn't display any other symptoms any more other than the bowels. But thats under control.

If your DD's issues were allergies then you would need to get it followed up. But generally intolerances they grow out of. It's just a waiting game.

Mrs Little & Sons.

[Jadee]

Thanks for your replies, I wasn't sure because DD3 had really runny stools for weeks but that has stopped now that she has started on Pepti Jnr and all is going well at the moment. We have even weaned her off the meds on the paeds advice, this week :fingerscrossed: so hopefully I have done the right thing

I also use psyillium husk its great, she even loves drinking it now lol. At least it makes sure that my kids are always eating really healthy!

[~Bec~]

My DS was diagnosed with a cow's milk protein intollerance about 3 months ago. His only sympton was green frothy diarrhea which started to get some bloody streaks in it. At the time he was feed regular formula and ebm. We stopped using the regular formula and switched to soy formula. It took a few days for things to settle down.

[Tam-I-Am]

My understanding is that the more somebody is exposed to their intolerance - the more sensitive they become to it, so your DD is unlikely to 'grow out of' an intolerance, without it being eliminated from her diet entirely for a time.

There's no harm in eliminating dairy from your diet (if you replace the essential vitamins and minerals with other sources, of course), so I would be attempting an elimination of all CMP containing foods, and see how she goes...

Then reintroduce it gradually, slowly, and see what happens....It might give you all the answers you need right there :)

[Mrs Little]

Tam-i-am-What you said makes sense.

However, my pead said that most research and experinces he has with intolerances are unexplained. The body seems to just grow out of it over time.

Maybe it depends on the severity of the intolerance.

My ds1 had intolerances that were never addressed or eliminated. By the time he was about 10 months old ALL the symptoms had dissappeared.

I guess you can make your body tolerate something if you keep pushing it to. But it would be easier on little bodies if they didn't have to go through this process and the intolerant substance was eliminated and trialled again later.

Also, i know of people who are being told to continue to expose their little ones to little amounts of an intolerant substance in hope that their body will accept it one day.

I believe Jadee is formula feeding her little one. But it is definatley an idea to elminate the suspected food from the other DD's diet and wait a while and then trial again.

Intolerances aren't the easiest to diagnose. A lot of babies have various symptoms ranging from the frothy poos or blocked bowels and many other symptoms of course.

Mrs Little & Sons.

[Missus S]

The less severe allergic reactions are hard to pick up on as they can take 2 or 3 days to show up.

I would go with your gut feeling............if you think it is dairy, switch to a mix of high calcium soy and rice milk. That's what we have our DD on now. You can even make fruit smoothies with the milk. That with plenty of green vegies and you won't need any extra supplements :thumbsup:

[Tam-I-Am]

AH, okay, Mrs Little - what you said makes sense :)

Talking from my OWN experience (which is only me, of course ;) :)) I have a CMPI too - I didn't realise until my DD was diagnosed with hers that that's what I have. I always thought I was lactose intolerant only - but given that I experience all the symptoms she experiences, even in the absence of exposure to lactose - I'm sure that's what it is. When I spoke to my allergist about it (who admittedly knew a LOT more about my dustmite allergy than food intolerances) - he suggested complete elimination for some months before a gradual reintroduction.

I can't tell you how successful it is though - cause I've never done it...I can't stand milk substitutes :o

Maybe one day :laughing:

[Jadee]

:hugs: Thanks for all of your feed back, I too believe that maybe my first two girls may have been intolerant.

One interesting thing to note is that during my second pregnancy I consumed little dairy on the advice of my naturopath and DD2 only suffered from constipation but was a really settled happy baby that raised me no concerns in comparison to her sisters :no: .

In my pregnancy with DD3 I loved sustegen? So consumed more milk than I normally would so I now wonder if that could have been a factor. Because she has suffered greatly in the little time that she has been with us so far.

I am going to trail off dairy in DD2's diet especially since I noticed the difference after a week long camping trip.

Thanks again :hugs: