Hi!
Olivia is 15 weeks old, and has had quite a few problems since birth in terms of her feeding behaviours, so originally we were told she had colic, so we used infacol and it sorted her right out.
Next came the back arching and screaming during feeds, so we were prescribed infant gaviscon - didn't help at all! Next Olivia was prescribed ranitidine 1ml (150/10mg) 3 x daily. This helped her ENORMOUSLY! No more arching of her back and battling her bottles, but the sickness didn't stop. I started adding carobel to her bottles and she loved them, going up to 7oz every 4 hours (she currently weighs 12.8lb on the 25th centile) the carobel seemed to cause two explosive nappies per day though, really yucky stuff which would end up on her back, arms, head, everywhere! Then she started with really terrible gas pains when feeding which in turn made her refuse her feeds, screaming in pain.
She was on APTAMIL first the whole 15 weeks, then I changed her food to Hipp Organic but at this point she was already completely refusing her feeds and would cry at the very sight of a nearing bottle.
It was only Friday afternoon, less than a week ago, that she polished off a 7oz bottle in around 15 minutes with no pain, no crying, no fussing and held in a nursing position, to a few days later screaming and hating feeds and taking no more then a few oz at a time.
The dr put her on APTAMIL Pepti 1 for a a suspected cows milk allergy, so far she seems to be taking a little more of her bottles - 4-5oz at a time, but because it's so thin like water, she does throw it back up, not all of it but a good amount. She hasn't pood for 24 hours but still has wet nappies.
The thing is - is this really a milk allergy? She's been thriving and downing her milk up until recently, Albeit with the addition of carobel.
We can't add carobel to the new milk because it's closely related to the soy bean, which the dr believes she can't tolerate as the nappies speak for themselves and the gas pains etc.
I feel like there's something more, maybe she's had a bug and been off her milk for a few days? Maybe I shouldn't have switched her to her to pepti and continues with APTAMIL first or Hipp Organic? I don't feel that she's CMPA, she has no symptoms apart from feeding aversion and refusal + reflux.
No eczema, no mucus poos, her poos we're fine before the addition of carobel, always happy and smiling, never cries unless it's for a bottle or she's tired....
I just don't know what to do for the best. I want her to enjoy her feed but I don't want to take cows milk out of her diet if it's unnecessary? Surely she would have more symptoms in 15 weeks of life if this was CMPA? I've heard a lot of the time it's bloody/muscusy Poos, nasal congestion and eczema, none of which she has...
has anyone else been on a similar journey?! X
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leebee2017 · 04/04/2018 10:07
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