Changing from Neocate to Nutramigen

[ItsWheelieNana]

Hello
My 9 week old granddaughter has been on Neocate prescription formula since she was 2weeks old.

Before that she was on Aptamil but developed explosive watery diahorria so GP put her on Neocate as there is strong family history of both lactulose intolerance and cows milk allergy.

She was really good on Neocate, poo returned to normal within a couple of days and she's been fine since.

At her 6wk check my daughter mentioned the baby has reflux symptoms, we expected the gp would prescribe gaviscon or something but instead she wanted her to try Nutramigen to see if that made her better!

So baby has been on Nutramigen for 24hrs now and she's had multiple explosive watery poos that smell awful 🤢!

I'm wondering if anyone has experience of transferring from Neocate to Nutramigen? Not sure whether it's normal to get this reaction just because it's different to what she's used to and that it'll stop after a few days? Or if it's clearly proving that baby has a lactulose intolerance?

I know that if baby had been unwell for a period of time on the aptamil it would take a few weeks to detox and get better once on Nutramigen. But because Neocate is so specialised and baby was doing perfectly fine on it and had zero symptoms she doesn't have any build up to detox from?

Any thoughts welcome 🙏!

Phone the customer helpline that's on the tin of formula

If it's the nutramegen I'm thinking of you've gone from neocate being a amino acid formula to now being on a hydrolysed milk which is only partly broken down

She should be on a amino acid formula but with a thickener like thick'n'easy or carobel or even infant gaviscon.
Join main group cmpa on Facebook loads of support on there x

Yes that's what we thought she should have. But it was a different gp we saw and she was very reluctant to just prescribe thickener to go with Neocate unfortunately! Sceptical part of me thinks it's a cost saving thing as I believe Nutramigen is cheaper to prescribe. But also I guess they do need to know if baby's allergy is lactose or cows milk which doing this test should tell them 🤔.