Hi
My son Liam will be 7 weeks old on Saturday. We started him on Aptamil 1 and when he was 2 weeks old he had diarrhoea and we ended up in A&E. After this he started to become really uncomfortable quite often throughout the day - his face going bright red, arching his back & bringing his knees up, grunting, writhing around and passing alot of wind. He also only did one poo a day which was very explosive (it quite often shot 2 foot across the room & I was constantly covered in it!)
I took him to the doctor who gave him Colief and Infacol as he suggested he could be lactose intolerant. This didn't work so he was then taken off both of these and put on Aptamil Easy Digest with gripe water. Still no improvement, so 2/3 weeks ago they put him on Cow & Gate Infasoy as apparently the bug he had at 2 weeks irritated his bowel making him intolerant to cows milk protein. He has been better on the Infasoy, he now has firmish poos (but still only once a day or longer) but still has quite a few hours in the day where he is grunting and uncomfortable and passing alot of wind. He is also very sick on the Infasoy compared to Aptamil (both kinds).
When I went back to the doctor he said the soy milk was the last resort, there's nothing more they can do and he will just have to get used to it.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? Do you think it's likely that he could have an intolerance to both kinds of milk proteins? (The Cow and Gate website said that children with cows milk allergies are often allergic to soy milk, but doesn't say anything about having an intolerance.)
Does anybody have any suggestions about what we could try next? It is really upsetting to see the poor thing so uncomfortable.
Sorry this is such an essay!
My son Liam will be 7 weeks old on Saturday. We started him on Aptamil 1 and when he was 2 weeks old he had diarrhoea and we ended up in A&E. After this he started to become really uncomfortable quite often throughout the day - his face going bright red, arching his back & bringing his knees up, grunting, writhing around and passing alot of wind. He also only did one poo a day which was very explosive (it quite often shot 2 foot across the room & I was constantly covered in it!)
I took him to the doctor who gave him Colief and Infacol as he suggested he could be lactose intolerant. This didn't work so he was then taken off both of these and put on Aptamil Easy Digest with gripe water. Still no improvement, so 2/3 weeks ago they put him on Cow & Gate Infasoy as apparently the bug he had at 2 weeks irritated his bowel making him intolerant to cows milk protein. He has been better on the Infasoy, he now has firmish poos (but still only once a day or longer) but still has quite a few hours in the day where he is grunting and uncomfortable and passing alot of wind. He is also very sick on the Infasoy compared to Aptamil (both kinds).
When I went back to the doctor he said the soy milk was the last resort, there's nothing more they can do and he will just have to get used to it.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? Do you think it's likely that he could have an intolerance to both kinds of milk proteins? (The Cow and Gate website said that children with cows milk allergies are often allergic to soy milk, but doesn't say anything about having an intolerance.)
Does anybody have any suggestions about what we could try next? It is really upsetting to see the poor thing so uncomfortable.
Sorry this is such an essay!
so when i was in boots today i bought Cow & Gate Infasoy aswell now readin this thread am wondering should i give hiim it ( mj did have routa virus when he was 9 days old) ahhhh am so confused now wht should i do pls healp before i change his feeds 2mora
