Hello

Mrs. Mo

Hello , all!

  Unfortunately, I  will be joining you all on this board. DD had been having severe meltdowns each night since birth that would last 4-5 hours. At her 1 week check-up, the pedi tested a stool sample and found blood in it. As a result, she was diagnosed with a milk allergy She is now on Nutramegin Lipil and is a lot better. The doc tried to appeal our health insurance to attempt to get them to cover it based on the medical necessity, but it was a no-go since it's available OTC.

  For those on this or any other special OTC formula, did you find a way to help cut the cost of it down? 

   Is there a prescription-only version/type of hypoallergenic milk-free formula ? The ins. company said that they won't cover the Nutramegin since it's OTC but if they put her on something that is ONLY available via prescription, they couldn't deny covering it. 

aniceucchik

We are using Nutramigen for our little one right now and it costs us about $200 a month, with one can lasting about 5 days. I havent tried to get it covered by our insurance though...seems like something worth looking into! We dont have any official proof that he needs it, except his uncontrollable screaming starting around 4 weeks old. He is also on prevacid and im not changing anything up until after 6m old. The only other formulas that i know of are the elecare and neosure...and they are uber expensive i believe...

g_belle

ellecare and neosure I think are rx only. 

However- check craigslist/ebay/amazon etc. for better pricing.  When I had leftover samples of ellecare I put them on craigslist.  I know of several other mommies that have bought specialty formula that way also.