Milk allergy or colic? Warning nappy contents picture

[Ttcsecond]

Hi anyone that reads this.

I’m wondering if my formula fed 5 week old has an allergy or colic.

From about 2 weeks old she’s had red spots. They started on her face and spread to her torso. They have cleared up a lot but still present. Nappy wise she only has a dirty nappy every 2-3 days and it’s quite watery and green (no blood). She’s very gassy and it smells and in the evening gets very uncomfortable and inconsolable. Her eyes look a little red and she had dry skins around her eyes and eyebrows. Yesterday I changed her milk form cow and gate to kendamil. It’s too early to tell if that’s made her any better.

does anyone have any experience in this and can give an opinion? I have taken her to the doctors and health visitor but was told it was baby acne/colic and that she would be a lot worse if it was CMPA. She’s putting in weight fine but struggle to get full feeds into her. She also often sounds bunged up too. I don’t want to have missed anything and her be in pain

I was told my daughter would be worse if she was reacting to anything i was eating. At the time she screamed for 16h a day and had several explosive nappies a day and couldn't be out of my arms for more than a few seconds so I'm not entirely sure how she could have been worse.
So she actually has 20 food allergies and is incredibly sensitive and crumbs of food with the wrong ingredient can cause a week of diarrhoea. I had to figure it all out by myself and then had the same Drs congratulate me for doing it without support

From what you have said i would be pushing for a trial of a hypoallergenic formula

My daughter is under a dietician for a dairy allergy started at 14 months now 23 months and still haven’t reached past step 1 of milk ladder. Had another appointment today and dietician said to try her with a crumb a day for 2 weeks and if she still reacts we will be put to a specialist can anyone tell me what specialist this may be ? I’ll include images to show what her reactions like thank you apology for quality as she doesn’t stay still x

symptoms:
red watery eyes
conjunctivitis
rash ( face, belly,bum)
throwing up bile
diarrhoea
fussy with food
dry skin

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The specialist will be a paediatrician. Likely to be a general as most at our hospital at least aren't specialists or it might be to an allergy or gastro paediatrician

My daughter has had delayed allergies and severe silent reflux. She has been under a general paediatrician since 4.5 months and was referred to a gastro specialist when her reflux was out of control with what the general paediatrician could prescribe aged 3.

For my daughter that would be a huge piece of biscuit. She is exceptionally sensitive and is on the north west milk ladder where you give a piece of biscuit the size of a grain of rice. We had our second attempt at the milk ladder at the end of last year aged 3y4m and went even slower than the ladder starting at 1 piece a week then twice a week after a month we got to every other day and she reacted the first time she had it two days after the first.

Loose stools, reflux, being miserable are her symptoms and antihistamines help her. She also gets a rash that takes weeks to go. She has daily aqueous cream and antihistamines until it goes. We have a steroid cream on prescription but it usually starts to show signs of improving before that is needed. For us the paediatrician mostly focus on the reflux aside from giving me nudges to try more foods again. As my daughter is so sensitive I wait at least a year before trials. She has 20 food allergies so we have a lot to try to fit in!