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trying not to over-react....

kris_kelseykris_kelsey member
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Been a while since I was on here, so hi again! 

Backstory:  Rowan has at least MSPI and started having bloody poops, anal fissures, face acne, congestion, reflux, and allergy bum rash by the time she was 10-14 days old.  I figured she reacted to dairy and soy and eliminated those plus a few other things for about 3 weeks but her symptoms were getting worse, so I swiched to alimentum.  she did remarkably better with the face acne, bum rash, bloody poops nearly disappearing in 24-48 hours.  However she still had reflux, anal fissures, and a couple bloody/mucousy poops so she was switched to neocate by the pedi GI.  We are supposed to wait until 6 months to start foods (that is in 2 days) but we started a week ago because she was showing all cues that she needed more substance (waking earlier and earlier, grabbing for our food, taking more bottles in a day). 

So she has gotten rice cereal (organic, no dairy/soy/gluten/wheat) once or twice per day for about 6 days.  I think she has a cold but she is really gunky and congested.  Over the last couple days her face has started breaking out with baby acne/red dots.  The last time she had all these spots was when she was still getting breastmilk.  The face bumps right now are not terrible, but it seems like they are getting subtly worse each day.  I have been concerned about EOE for a while because she has had swallowing and feeding difficulty from the get-go which got better with alimentum and then neocate.  I guess I am gonna keep giving her the rice cereal to see if it is a fluke or if the rash persists.  Then what do I do if the face rash does persist?  I feel like most docs will blow me off saying it is just a little acne and it is no big deal.

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Re: trying not to over-react....

  • flyckaflycka member

    I'm no expert at all but I'm still in the "what do I feed my baby?" dilemma.

    I wouldn't keep going with the rice cereal. My daughter threw up for four hours after a baby spoon of rice cereal. Since then I made my own rice cereal and I'm not sure how much was it from the rice or coconut oil from the Carlson drops or sunflower lecithin. So for now no grains until I get that one figured out. I'm sticking, sort of, to the link below.

    https://www.completechildrenshealth.com/news/articles/starting-solids-in-the-baby-with-mspi

      She gets eczema a bum rashes from wheat and maybe rice not the allergy bumps that she gets from milk.


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  • NiniJ55NiniJ55 member
    I personally would stop giving the rice cereal. I would try regular foods like sweet potato or carrot.  Sienna is allergic to dairy, eggs and peanuts.  For some reason she seemed sensative to rice when we first started on solids too - so i gave them up for a while and just moved on to other foods.  
    She can have rice now without issues. 
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