Any other babies on Nutramigen?

[Shalimar01]

I took Dylan for his follow-up appointment at the hospital today and he has been diagnosed with a milk allergy. I am relieved that we are finally moving forward with his diagnosis and we know what's causing his bloody/ mucousy nappies and red, blotchy skin (otherwise he is a very healthy, happy baby who is getting nice and chubby!)

The doctor has put him on Nutramigen and so far he has only drunk 2 ounces, so too early to tell whether he'll like it or not.

I'm interested to know if anyone else's baby has a milk allergy and is on this milk and how they are doing with it so far? I noticed straight away that the powder/ milk smells very different from store-bought milks (yes, I've experimented with them all!) so it is bound to taste different too. I just hope Dylan likes the taste...

Interested to get your thoughts/ experiences, etc...

 

[ouchwithNo.2]

my little girl was prescribed it after we went from breastfeeding at 6 weeks to cow and gate formula for 2 weeks and she got an awful lumpy, blotchy red rash which slowly crept all over her body.
GP said that was a milk allergy so we started on that.
Yes it smells vile and tastes even worse but after the second bottle she adapted very quickly and the rash went.
However at that time we also had issues with vomit, which was reflux so again we switched formula to treat that.
But the Nutramigen def cleared up her rash - just didn't seem to stay in her tum long as it was quite watery/thin and with the reflux you need a thicker formula.
Good luck!! x

 

[SaraAbi]

Abi been on nutramigen since 6 wks after suffering severe diarrhoe and colicy symptoms. We had to wean her onto it at first by mixing it with breast milk as she wasn't that keen but she takes it fine now. We think hers is more an intollerance than an allergy but have only been referred to the hospital at last today as docs and HV thought she'd grow out of it but after trying her recently she still has the same reaction.

As she is weaned we use it quite a lot in food and if you phone mead Johnson they'll send you a recipe book, i was dreading weaning her as I thought it would be hard but it isn't we make all her own food but you van get milk free jars.

Sorry if I've waffled a bit but I hope this helps x

 

[Shalimar01]

Thanks for your replies ladies...

I've just given Dylan his first full bottle of it and he suddenly projectile vomited quite a bit of his feed back up. He has never done this before so naturally I was a bit taken by surprise.

I've rung the doctor back to see if this is a normal side effect and will pass with a few more feeds until he gets used to it.

Did your babies have any issues with spitting up/ vomiting once you started on it?

Thanks again for your advice...

 

[MrsRabbit]

DD was on it for a day. Had such a violent reaction we switched to Alimentum which is a different brand of the same formula - hypoallergenic. She handled it better but in the end we had to move to an Elemental formula. DD is so sensitive to dairy and soy we cannot have even the broken down dairy\soy.

I hope this is the answer. With any formula trial it'll take a couple weeks and will seem worse before it gets better even if it is working.

Good Luck.