Clicky POll- Diet or formula

Kelly820 · May 2010

My son has food allergies and we don't know to what. I have already tried cutting out all dairy for two weeks, but it did nothing. I was hoping to breasfeed until he was 6 months old, so two more months. Would you do the all elimination diet (2 weeks only chicken, rice, and water and then add stuff in slowly) or switch to formula now (hypoallergenic)? They can't do a blood test for some reason (i have another appt. today to find out why not).[Poll]

NiniJ55 · May 2010

I want to say that I would do the elimination diet - but honestly it sound a little difficult to me to only have chicken, rice and water for 2 weeks.

vmm0016 · May 2010

I avoided the 3 major culprits...dairy, nuts, and eggs. She is doing much better now and the pedi said we could try adding them back when she gets older. Good luck!

aocain02@yahoo.com · May 2010

I could live off chicken and rice so that wouldn't be a problem for me.

StarryNight39 · May 2010

I have had 3 children with severe food allergies. First definitely go to a hypoallergenic formula. The more a child is given the allergen the worse an allergy can be. All three of my kids have been and are on hypoallergenic formula.

Second they can absolutely run a RAST panel on your son to find out what the allergens are. Both my girls had them done at 1 month old and my son had his done at 2 weeks.

AggieGrl · May 2010

Honestly, I'd do the formula. What I did when we suspected allergies was put DS on the formula and pumped and froze. After a few weeks on the formula, we saw no change and determined it wasn't allergies.

getnmarried910 · May 2010

I'd do the diet and see if that works.

justrachet · May 2010

I voted formula, but it depends on how important BFing is to you. We switched to formula because trying to keep my supply going was stressing me out, and we were supplementing 50-75% anyway. I think the diet would be equally stressful for me and not worth it.

If BFing is very important to you, it might be worth it for you to do the diet.

ETA: adding clarification

getnmarried910 · May 2010

StarryNight39:

I have had 3 children with severe food allergies. First definitely go to a hypoallergenic formula. The more a child is given the allergen the worse an allergy can be. All three of my kids have been and are on hypoallergenic formula.

Second they can absolutely run a RAST panel on your son to find out what the allergens are. Both my girls had them done at 1 month old and my son had his done at 2 weeks.

I think this is a personal preference. Ihave a friend who's son is allergic to several things and she said there's no way she'd give him formula with all his allergies.

CTri17 · May 2010

I would give it 2 more weeks because it takes 2 more weeks for dairy to get out of babies system.

Or I'd check out the dr sears elimination diet but it sounds similar to that one. I would be doing that rather than formula but that is me!

Ivana_Stolichnaya · May 2010

Chicken, rice and water for 2 weeks...bleh!

JennJim2006 · May 2010

My son has suspected allergies and severe reflux. Things were so bad that my pedi said that he wanted to do anything we could do help him get more comfortable. So I stopped BF'ing and went to the hypoallergenic formula. We saw a change within three days and it was great. He is doing much better now. I sometimes wish that I had tried the elimination diet but we were having so many issues at the time that the formula seemed to be the better choice. Good luck!

MelodyMoonstone · May 2010

My son has lots of allergy issues, and BFing was extremely important to me, so I did it. I've at one point eliminated wheat, gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, beef, treenuts, peanuts, shellfish... I think that's it... It's all a matter of how important BFing is to you - are you willing to give up foods. It's hard - now going to lie - but it's very important to me, so I did what I had to do.

jenny1980 · May 2010

It's pretty important to me that DD get breast milk for the first year, so I'd do the diet. I don't blame you if you choose formula, though. That diet sounds awful.

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