Hi everyone,
My DS (14 months) seemed to be a very refluxy baby, and after pushing doctors and following my gut instinct, we eventually switched him to Neocate which resulted in a great improvement. He now has the official diagnosis of non-IGE mediated cow's milk allergy. (With hindsight, I don't think it was reflux, but some sort of colitis/stomach pain that he was suffering from.)
We live in the Middle East and the medical care here isn't always that reliable. Our dietitian is pretty useless, so I tend to smile and nod and then go home and do my own research using the NHS website etc.
They want to give him a milk challenge in two months, but it will be nothing more sophisticated than literally offering him a milk drink in the clinic, which I don't think is a very good idea.
After reading this research paper www.ctajournal.com/content/3/1/23 I decided to do my own milk challenge at home based on the recommendations in the paper. I started him off this morning with a whole malted milk biscuit. I was fairly confident it would go OK as he often swipes his twin sister's sandwiches etc which have butter or cheese in and has so far seemed OK.
But tonight he seemed really cranky, wouldn't eat his dinner and then vomited quite spectacularly after being given his bedtime Neocate bottle. His temp was slightly raised too, around 37.6
Is this a reaction to the biscuit, or do you think it is just a bug?
He's been asleep for a couple of hours now and seems much better, no temperature etc.
I think I will try again in a few days but with just a quarter of the biscuit, does this seem like a good plan? Is a temperature a symptom of a dairy allergy? I'm just trying to work out if he might be ill. His twin sister is fine.