Milk Protein Allergy

amos07

For those who EBF and had to cut dairy from their diet...What were the symptoms that your LO was experiencing that made the doctors think it was a milk protein allergy?  Also, were these symptoms present from the start? My little one recently started having the ocassional greenish bowel movement with some red pin point spots in it and the doctors say it's probably a milk allergy. She isn't having any other symptoms and more times than not she has normal bowel movements even with me eating dairy so I don't know what to think.

fairychick77

J has a milk protein allergy. The pedi at first thought it was really bad reflux and J was put on Zantac at 2 weeks. After 3 months of getting nowhere with Zantac or Prevacid, the pedi finally tested his stool for blood, which can be indicative of a MPA. Blood was present and I stopped eating dairy immediately.

In hindsight, there were a lot of signs that pointed to something other than reflux, the pedi just never put two and two together. He would scream & cry all day long like he was in pain, especially when he ate. He would sometimes get rashes on his face, his scalp and the the skin underneath his eyebrows would get red. He had really bad gas and his stool was really runny and a orangey-brown color (I'm assuming this is from the MPA because since I stoppped eating dairy it looks like the normal yellow seedy poop of a BF baby).

 J is a completely different baby. I wish the pedi had caught the allergy sooner than 3 1/2 months. I was at the end of my rope by then. But am just thankful we did narrow it down and he is the happy now!

 

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If you've eaten a bit more dairy than usual in the past day then the green poo can surface. All babies are sensitive to cow milk at first and slowly get over it by the time they turn 1. All babies get used to it at different rates and some are very very sensitive for a while. My DD has gotten the green poo, and then I've realized I had pizza, ice cream, cheese, etc., all within a short time period. If you BF, you should be mindful of "spreading out" your dairy intake. It will slowly get better as your baby's tolerance increases, so unless your baby has a huge reaction like pp's did, just try to keep the diary intake low.

Also, if you've eaten out recently, there is a lot of "hidden" diary in sauces and stuff in restaurant cooking. They use a lot of cream and butter!

 

Mbitner

Our LO had bad reflux that wasn't getting better with meds and was coughing up blood.  We stayed a week at Children's hospital.  They found blood in his stool too.  Since milk protein is found in so many things (not just in milk)....the specialists told me it can be very difficult to ensure that I would not pass any milk-protein onto my son (when he was breast-feeding...well pumping and using a bottle.)  Instead of trying to eliminate all foods with milk-protein from my diet they recommended we switch to nutramigen.  He has been on it for a few months...and his reflux is under control with meds.  No more blood in stools and coughing up blood.  GL!  

vermont7

My daughter started to have green poop at around a month old. This went on for a few weeks. One day I noticed tiny pin points of blood and an occasional streak. the pedi said maybe a fissure or milk allergy. she had no other symptoms. I stopped all dairy and no more blood. She does still have a green poop about once a day but all others are mustardy. It  has been two months and I just tried eating yogurt and she seems okay. I am going to slowly try a little more dairy to see what she can tolerate now.