BF lactose intolerant baby?

[fiveofus]

Hi,

After 7 weeks of HUGE projectile vomits and being told by CHN that all babies vomit and not to worry I have finally got my paediatrician to listen and stool tests have revealed he is lactose intolerant. I would like to keep BF him as I did with my first and enjoyed all the advantages of BF. If I am to continue to do this I need to have a lactose free diet (can cope with that as I am not a big diary fan anyway) and have been told to give my son 10 drops of a product called Lacteeze at the start of every feed to help him with the natural lactose in all breast milk. Too easy!! Except that I have calculated that this product will cost about $75/week to use. At that cost I may have to put him on soy formula !!!

Juts wondering if anyone else has successfully BF a lactose intolerant baby and what they did/used? Did it stop completely the projectile vomits?

Would love to hear.

Bec

[Sheer Bliss]

I haven't fed a bubba with lactose intolerance, but i developed it after i was pregnant (not sure how that happened - but i can't have much dairy at all these days).
Someone on another forum put me onto a UHT milk - Liddells Brand. It comes in full-fat, skim & low-fat & also has chocolate milk poppers. I buy it at coles but it's probably in other supermarkets too on the shelf with other UHT milks. No good for bubs yet - but it might be something for you to try in your tea/cooking. I made a lasange with it the other night - it tasted like normal without the nast side-effects that come with using regular milk.

I hope it all works out for you.

[Can I?]

Does bub have milk protein allergy too? Is that why you need to have a dairy free diet? I'm confused. Since lactose is the sugar present in all milks, your milk will have lactose regardless of whether you eat dairy yourself.....won't it?

My son had the same projectile vomiting, but it turns out he was allergic to nuts and corn, so once I stopped those.....viola....no more vomiting (pluss better sleeping and no skin rashes...yay!).

Hope you work it out.

[Goosie22]

Hi,
Soy formula can cause the same reaction as cows milk formula, an elimination diet may well be all you need. Here (http://www.health-e-learning.com/articles/Lactose.pdf#search=%22lactose%20intolerance%20%2B% 20e-learning%22) is an article written about Lactose overload which might clear somethings up for you.

[jarrahsmumma]

I have heard Losec is a drug which can help with the lactose intolerence. Or call the ABA they will know what to do:thumbsup: