refusing neocate after bug

[MoaningMini]

My daughter is 17 months old and has been on neocate since 5 weeks old due to cmpi and eczema. She has taken it with absolutely no problems until a fortnight ago when she had a sickness & diarrhoea bug.

She's over that now but refuses to take any of her formula. We tried both neonate active and the baby formula version.

She also won't take flavoured drinks so adding flavour to it makes no difference. She's refusing soya milk and oat milk too.

GP has been useless, HV invisible so I wondered if anyone had any ideas.

Cooking with neocate is virtually impossible so can't sneak it in food:(

My granddaughter has been on Neocate since four weeks old. When she was 7months she caught swine flu (along with her two brothers) she only managed to take 1oz of Neocate at every feed for a few days. It certainly put her off feeding but after recovery she never drinks more than 5oz a feed.
I don't think she likes it much but her consultant is not worried as she is healthy otherwise.He says there is a lot of nutrients in it and they don't seem to need as much as cows milk. Now aged 17months she is still only having 5oz at every feed but will eat a very varied diet of milk and dairy free foods. So I wouldn't worry at all.

Meant to add I wouldn't advise soya milk if she suffers from cmpi as they can react to that also. Is she having extra calcium? I personally think if you have a child with cmp allergy YOU end up knowing more than HV and GP.
Give plenty of water and baby juice but offer Neocate first just in case she has a change of heart.

MY ds drinks 2oz a feed, sometimes up to 4oz. He's on calcium supplements as a result.

I personally tip a couple of scoops in purees or wet meals and just mix it in just before serving.

I give him cereal and neocate for breakfast (a good one is porridge made very thick with water in the microwave then thinned with neocate)

I give for one of his meals a meal with a sauce or a puree that neocate can be stirred into.

Neocate smoothies are good, as is 'yogurt' I blend about 7 scoops with some apple juice and half a banana.

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She hasnt touched her neocate or any other form of "milk" (soya/oat etc)

Tried to speak to the doc who didnt know what neocate was and after explaining the childs history we were told to just keep giving her the neocate. I could have screamed.

She's ok with soya products and doesnt have a soya allergy/intolerance so I've been giving her the Alpro 1+ which has added calcium and vits in her cornflakes but she leaves the milk and only eats the cornflakes.

Tried to sneak the neocate into foods/drinks but it didnt work.

Calcium aside, is there anything else she really needs to get from food etc that she would normally get from milk?

My DD has been on neocate since she was 8mths old and regularly goes through phases of refusing it (she is now 3)

Things I have found have helped is:

giving her a bottle/beaker in the buggy so she is busy looking around and does not realise she is drinking...

Putting it into a "big girl cup" with a curly straw

Putting it onto her breakfast cereal.

Also most supermarkets do frozen fruit (berries) and I have found a fab pudding is to get some out of the frezzer the night before and add a couple of scoops of neocate to the mushy fruit iyswim. When you puree/stir it up it comes out thick like a yogurt and my DD quite likes it.

The only other thing she will eat is pancakes made with neocate.

Oh, I forgot I also mush a rusk up when she has been ill with neocate which she likes and the rusks have added calcuim in, yes they have sugar in too but you have to weigh up the calcuim intake iyswim which I think is more important....

You could also try watering down the neocate ie 2 scoops to 5ozs of water and gradually up it till she is more used to it again...