I have a 5yo DS who had a CMPA, recently outgrown in the last year or so. We never fed him formula as breastfed.
I now have DD, who is 10 weeks. She had tip and tongue tie which went undiagnosed, and the problems stemming from that meant I had to stop breastfeeding. So she has been on formula since 3 weeks.
We found regular formula made her unhappy and constipated. After a few days we switched to comfort formula which was better, but continued to use the ready mades on occasion for ease (night time and when out and about). After a week or so, we saw blood on stools, rash and explosive nappies. But her weight gain was steady and she was hungry for the bottles. Generally content as well. No unusual sickness. Two consultants (one NHS and one private) both suggested it looked highly likely she had CMPA and prescribed nutramagin. This made her miserable and she became very sicky, and inconsolable. We stopped at 24 hrs and returned to comfort while we arranged for an alternative hydrolysed formula. Over the week it took to arrange this, all her symptoms cleared up! The consulants were baffled, said an allergy would cause constant shmotoms and unlikely to clear up like that. They suggested staying on the comfort until any further symptoms arise/return.
Since then we have had a few issues with sickness which we think we have resolved since the TT has been fixed. But I am watching her like a hawk and wondering if the milk is disagreeing with her still. Her nappies can still sometimes be runny and explosive but far far better than before and I think could be normal for comfort formula. But she does have a slight rash that can come and go, and has also become quite an unhappy grumpy baby. She has had a really bad week, screaming inconsolably and very hard to comfort. I have put down to recent jabs and TT release. But I am still suspicious of a milk allergy that could be making her uncomfy.
I have been wondering if the normal formula was too much for her to tolerate, and perhaps the comfort formulas are broken down just enough to reduce the reactions but could maybe still be making her uncomfy? Does anyone know if this is possible? Or would the comfort still cause as much of a reaction as the standard one?
Just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience perhaps....
We have a prescription for aptamil pepti to try (if symptoms return) and I'm thinking about asking the consultant to give that a go but don't really have many symptoms to go on at the moment... just a hunch. And I want to wait a while for things to settle after the TT release before I try anything else. But wanted to scope things out in the meantime! x