Poorly baby, possibly due to intolerances?

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childrens_health/1874290-Week-3-of-diarrhoea?msgid=42544049#42544049

Please could people look at my thread in children's health and give me some advice?
Thank you.

Sounds v similar to my ds1. He was ebf I had to cut dairy out of my diet as it was giving him wind. We weaned him and the constant diarrhoea started. The doctor did a poo test and he was found to be lactose intolerant. We went onto Sma lf it helped but not cured. We were referred to nutritionist, turns out he was cows milk intolerant which is common and they grow out of usually

Mostly all his milk still came from me but we used the formula with food and for one feed at nursery. It still wasn't right so at one we moved onto alpro soya junior, cut all dairy out and Never looked back.

He's now 4 and we've re introduced dairy as he grown out of it. My son despite the constant diarrhoea never lost weight, continued to grow in line with his centiles. He also was not small.

If I read your thread right your doctors referred you but has he done the poo test himself? You drop it off at the Gp and it takes a few days for the result. Could he do this whilst waiting for the referral?
The chid does need to have eaten milk for a result.

child and meant to say, hope he feels better soon x

Sleepy that sounds promising. They tested his poo for bugs in week 2 but not since- I might ask them to do that.

We are seeing the hv tomorrow so I might bring it up again with her.

The test for bugs is a different one unless he did both at the same time but I'm sure he'd have told you. The test Has to be done through the Gp so it might be worth making an appointment anyway. Sooner it's done sooner you can rule it in or out.

The plus point is if it does come back positive you can take him off dairy whilst waiting for the hospital. I know you tried LF milk, for us it had to be dairy free. We were lucky, lots of milk intolerant kids are soya intolerant as well but my ds was just dairy.

Really hope you get to the bottom of it soon. Know how draining it is x

Please keep me posted on how you get on :)

Hi guys I have a little girl who is 7 weeks and I am convinced she has cmpi but am unsure of how hard to push it at the GPs, I am breastfeeding at mo but she has constant green/yellow mucusy poo, very windy and has had blood streaks in it once or twice with reflux symptoms as well. I want to see a Paediatrician but my GP gave me some gaviscon and Infacol and said come back in a week. I have cut out all dairy from my diet since Thursday but I'm finding b'feeding hard as she also has a tongue tie which causes her to let in loads of wind and to be honest just want to go onto formula but now don't know what to do and who to see? Feeling a bit lost by it all and what to ask for etc any advice would be amazing x x

Hi hspoon, I'd just ask the Gp to do the test. It'll put your mind at rest before going onto the bottle. I did this with Ds2 as was really worried he was going to be the same. They were really good about it and just did it. He was fine x

hspoon - the TT can cause all those symptoms. Have you not seen anyone about getting it snipped? Start with the hospital infant feeding coordinator.
I had a CMPI refluxer with a TT. It seems to be common that the two go together. On the Little Reluxers website many more babies than you'd expect were also TT. There is a theory that both problems are linked to midline developmental defects. Lots about both conditions on the Analytical Armadillo blog.
2children will look at your other thread.