3 month old and i want to scream and cry

[addictediam]

Hi my daughter is just 3 months old and has am allergy to milk and possibly soya.

It's taken 12 weeks to get nutramigen for her and when I was given the script for the first time I burst into tears!

I'm scared and worried about what else she may be allergic to. The pead suggested starting her on solids sooner rather than later and re introducing aptimal.

She had an anaflactic (i can't spell!) Reaction to aptimil when she was first on it and and I am not ready to go through that again.

I don't think she is ready for solids and o don't want her to suffer of I give her something wrong.

Should I listen to the pead or do what I think is right? How do I even know what's right? What do I do?

there is a brilliant book called digestive wellness for children by elizabeth lipski and another called what can i feed my baby? by suzannah olivier.

i wouldn't introduce aptimil again. my dairy intolerant ds was always violently sick when i tried that.

did you breastfeed?

No I decided not to before she was born, for reasons I still stand by. But feel so guilty for not.

I will go and look at thoes books, thanks

Please don't beat yourself up. There is a lot to take in when your dc is first diagnosed with allergies but it does get easier.
When you are ready to wean, take it slowly and introduce new foods one at a time so you are aware of any reaction. Read through old posts on the MN allergy board - there is so much helpful information and other people who have been through similar.

my gp would only refer me to the pead and not the allergy specialist (it took enough just to get that so i wasnt about to turn it down!) but in his letter back to the dr he did write (and i have a copy) that we need to be refered to an allergy specialist if at 1yo she hasnt grown out of it.

hes also dismissed us and said he doesnt need to see her again....but i need to see him!!!!!

Poor you - I was lucky with referrals and this is what happended with DS

The paediatric dietician and I agreed the following course of action:

Pre-weaning
? We decided on a hypoallergenic formula (also Nutramigen)
Weaning: we removed all foods that could trigger an allergic reaction: no dairy, soya, fish, nuts, gluten, eggs, citrus fruit or tomatoes. We had no idea how DS would react were his immune system to be challenged by one of these foods, but having seen his reaction to dairy-based formula we decided best to not to even let it happen. So Christopher ate a lot of rice, other vegetables, rice pasta, rice biscuits and more rice. Over time and at home (though you may want to do this with a nurse if you're worried) - we introduced (in order) soya, fish and tomatoes by first running a touch-test (touching the food to his lips to see if he would react - ie going a bit red not banging into the big A) and then introducing a tiny quantity and waiting to see. My recipes were limited so support from the many allergy cook books on the market helped enormously.
From the age of 1 DS underwent blood tests at the London N,T & E hospital and by the age of 5 he could have all foods bar eggs and nuts.

In 2001 there were 130,000 130,000 hypoallergenic UK babies, despite this information on how to manage an allergic child at this stage of his development is scarce. Though an internet search on allergies in children can generate millions of results, most are for products and do not offer great advice. Only after scouring copies of relevant BMA articles from a friend and much chat on mumsnet did I start to feel equipped to confidently manage DS' allergies.
Good luck you! Hope this helps,