Possible delayed CMPA?

[Etherealhedgehog]

DD is six months (EBF) and symptoms have emerged in about the last month and are:

Very watery poos BUT happening less frequently, or at least less regularly than before. Mostly going every other day (used to be daily)

More regular poos seem to have been replaced with lots of big, smelly farts

Fussy refusal to feed at some, but not all, feeds

Increase in spitting up/occasional vomiting

Sleep even more disturbed than usual, which seems like it might be related to the wind. Also she sometimes poos at night now, for the first time in ages.

The changes in poo and massive wind only appeared around five months, though I did wonder if this could be linked to an increase in milk consumption on my part - started drinking a cappuccino or similar most days, whereas previously my dairy consumption was mostly ingredients in things so not mega high.

GP just said it may be that she's hungry and ready for weaning and CMPA is unlikely, but I don't see how readiness for solids could lead to these kind of incredibly watery poos and massive wind?

Am considering giving up dairy just to see what happens, though if I do that unsupervised and it makes a difference, not sure if GP will heed results?

But the late onset and poos getting less frequent, not more, don't sound like classic symptoms.

Does anyone have experience of CMPA that manifested this way? Or thoughts on what else it could be?

It could be lactose intolerance rather than CMPA. My experience of CMPA becoming obvious at the same age in an EBF baby was wheezing, massive hives-basically anaphylactic allergy type reaction.
Also bad eczema.
It might be worth trialling you going dairy free to see if there is an improvement.

@Mayzee thanks - secondary lactose intolerance did cross my mind also but my understanding is that would be related to something like a bout of gastroenteritis and I don't see how I could have missed that. She is also a bit snuffly and has developed a dry cough but nothing like what you describe.

(also to add, she's been holding her percentile since about four weeks but is fairly small - was born around 50th percentile and is now between 9th and 25th, though we had tongue tie and accompanying supply issues which was the presumed cause of low weight gain in the first couple of months)

Sounds like potential coma to me. Make sure you are food diarying with symptoms if you are dairy free... doctors will listen to that, as it is gold standard testing!