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Milk allergy and soy formula

rle201rle201
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DS is allergic to cow's milk.  After EBF for almost 8 months while eliminating cow's milk from my diet, I've run into physical problems that are going to mean it is time to wean DS.  Our pediatrician recommended trying soy formula first (I never eliminated soy fom my diet and DS has been fine) before trying Nutramigen or Similac's hypoallergenic formula.

With DS#1, I was told not to try soy, but at the time DS1 was 9 weeks old.  think the reason why he's saying it is ok now is because DS2 is  older than DS1 was at the time he told me not to use soy.

Is anyone else with a LO with a cow's milk allergy successfully using soy formula?

Thanks! 

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Re: Milk allergy and soy formula

  • luvmagoldnluvmagoldn

    We switched DS#3 to a hypo formula at nine weeks to stabilize him.  Once he was feeling better our pedi had us try soy b/c the hypo is so expensive.  She did tell us that some percentage ( I forget the number) of babies who react to cow's  milk also react to soy.  Luckily DS did fine on soy so we kept him on it.

    I hope soy works for you too. 

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  • g_belleg_belle
    We switched my oldest to soy when I stopped bfing at 10 months (we tried milk and saw a reaction so we went to soy).  We've been supplementating the baby with soy formula for about 2 months now since I can't pump enough for him. 
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  • Wendy1210Wendy1210

    My LO had a reaction to the iron in the similac so we switched to good start gentle. Then he became allergic to milk so we switched to the GS soy then he became allergic to that. So we switched to Alimentum then our allergist switched him to Neocate. Looking back, I wouldn't have done the soy. But his allergy to soy is low but the milk is high. We are going to do a soy tolerance test and go from there. See what an allerist says before you do the switch.

     Good luck!!!

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