Nan Ha is widely available in Australia, I used it with my DS from birth, as advised by the hospital, as he was deemed to be at higher risk of allergies and excema (due to his parents' rotten genes ). It was great, I would recommend it. I have not bought it online, but a quick search turned up this site which sells it, and ships to 'Rest of the World'. The UK Pound is stronger that the Australian dollar, so you might find it more affordable than the US?

Hi everyone, after trawling the internet as to where I may possibly be able to purchase nestle good start, the only nan ha formula I know of, I eventually e:mailed nestle as £23 shipping from the US was not an option!
They replied and said that they don't sell it in the UK due to the ban I guess.
I am reading that you all seem to be able to get hold of Nan ha, where can I get it? I'm desperate as my lo is dissappearing under red eczema

FAO: mabc and rtm,

I realised today that the tin of NAN-HA I bought a few weeks ago was already out of date so took it back to Pharmacy to complain. I have since found out the reason is due to them running down old stock as Nestle are not making it anymore. They have stopped it due to dwindling sales as of May 09.

My dietician has suggested Nutramigen for the time being, but this costs £13 for a 400g tin. Thankfully for me I will have a supervised trial shortly after baby is born so won't have to buy it for long.

Boots also seem to have some stock, but I don't think it can be a long term solution. You may have to see your GP for a referal to a dietician.

CB x

Hi ladies,

Just wanted to post an update on my situation. We saw the local NHS dietician and she was lovely. Very supportive!!

She doesn't think it is right to introduce a milk based formula in such an unsupervised manner. I will be starting the baby on Nan-ha 1, which is partially hydrolysed, and much cheaper to buy than Nutramagen or Neocate. She said that the baby is no more likely to react to Nan-ha, and is an more affordable option while I have to buy it. Then once the baby is here we are going to trial the baby on cows milk formula in hospital for a couple of hours a day for a week to test if allergic.
I am so much happier now I have proper advice and a plan of action, plus the comfort of knowing if my baby does get sick I am already in the system.

She also talked to me a little about doing a plan of what to introduce and when we start weaning - so know I have the help longer term too!!

A real revelation, after all the fighting with GP and Midwife!! So just to say to anyone in a similar situation to insist!!

Baby due now, so just waiting.

Thanks for all your advice ladiesx

Hi RTM,

I bought mine from my local Lloyds in Milton Keynes, but should think it is a product fairly widely available?? Have you tried anywhere else? They looked it up in a book and then the pharmacist phoned the order though.

Hope this helps?

Hi

Can you please let me know which Lloyds Pharmacy did you get it from...

My son was on NAN-HA product (1 and now on 2) for the last two year, and my local chemist normally order this.. This week they told me that they are no longer able to get this product.

Thanks

RTM

Hi mabc,

Thanks for your reasuring message. I ordered it very easily through my local chemist (Lloyds Pharmacy) and it arrived the following morning. It cost £10 for a 900g tin. I am sure you could do some shopping round and find somewhere (maybe boots) who always have it in stock, and may have it cheaper?!?

Hope your move goes well and please let me know if I can help any further.

CB
x

Hi Carbooty,

I live in Australia at the moment and on the 03 April this year had a beautiful baby girl. I tried to no avail to bf but was incredibly unsuccessful, so since my daughter was 4 days old she has been on the formula NAN HA and she is incredibly healthy, growing well, poohing well and her paed can't sing her enough praise. He was also the one to recommend we bottle feed and this particular brand.
I came across your discussion on the internet because we are moving to London in two months and my biggest dilemma is wether I will be able to get this formula when I come to London? Can you let me know where you think I can find it?

Many thanks
and best of luck

Mabc

We used NAN HA for DD from around 4 months onwards. She was OK on it although it turns out that she has an egg allergy (which caused appalling colic if I ate egg products) and now she has eczma too (sp?). We live in Luxembourgh and NAN HA appears to be a v. popular choice here. We chose it on the recommendation of DD's pediatrician.

I have recommended that formula for ds2 too (for the same reasons : ds1 allergic to cow's milk until he was over 2yo).

Ibf ds1 but also used some formula when I went back to work (at 5months). It worked well as he didn't react to it (but reacted to cow's milk). ds2 dietician then proposed to use a fully hydrolysed formula and it was the worst idea ever. He hated it and from that point on refused to touch a botlle!

I got it from the chemist. I would recommend to use always use the same one as they don't know it and each time, it took a long tiome for them to find it in their books!!

So in short my experience was good and the price was similar than a 'normal' formula.

Good luck