Nutramigen for MSPI?

Kbrittonhart

LO was diagnosed with MSPI at 3 weeks. I removed dairy, soy, eggs, and nuts from my diet and it went great! She is now 15 weeks and we have reintroduced everything except soy. All went well...

Next month I will be away for 2 weeks and asked the pedi for a supplement in case she runs out of breast milk. He gave me a Nutramigen sample. We were going to test it this weekend but I read the label and it has casien (milk) and soy in it. Is it common for MSPI babies to be prescribed Nutramigen?

PipSqueak0313

We tried Nutramigen with ds2, but he is milk allergic (and was soy intolerant) so we had to go to Neocate. I believe that even though it has milk and soy the proteins are broken down a bit farther than regular formulas so some mspi kids can tolerate them.

Kbrittonhart

Thanks! The pediatric nurse finally called back and said Neocate would be the next step if she could not tolerate the Nutramigen. We tried 4 oz and she had some mucous in her bowel but that was the only symptom so it appears she is developing a tolerance.