Hi,
My baby is 5 months old and pretty much ebf. He had about 5 bottles of formula in the first few weeks of life and has had the odd bit recently as we encourage him to take a bottle. He's never had any reaction from it. (Except for not liking the taste!!)
We started weaning last Thursday and he had a bowl of baby porridge on thurs, fri and sun. All fine! When we woke on Monday morning his face was covered with hot red blotches. It was nowhere else on his body. It went within an hour and by the time we went to the docs there was no sign. The doc suspected a milk allergy. I used water to make the porridge but there's skimmed milk in the ingredients of the porridge. It seemed strange that the reaction happened 16 hours after eating.
I decided to try again with the porridge this morn and this time the blotches appeared straight after eating. They went after 45 mins again.
He was fine all day until I had my tea - bacon and scrambled eggs - and gave him a bf. his face came up in blotches straight after the bf even though he'd eaten nothing except breastmilk. I was concerned I had egg residue on my hands maybe?
Anyway, the whole thing is confusing. Does it sound like a milk allergy or intolerance? What should I do? Thanks