Goat milk success? CMPA

LateHouse · 2025-03-04T20:44:46+00:00

Please help! Has anyone had success with their baby on Goats Milk for suspected CMPA? I know the proteins are very similar, but wondering what the chances or my 5 week old tolerating it is. We're currently losing our minds as he is flat our rejecting the pepti and AA formulas.

MysticCatLady · 05/03/2025 00:56

Goats milk is too similar. If he's rejecting the Pepti/AA formula, try to introduce it more slowly by mixing it in regular formula and then gradually reducing the amount of regular formula in the mix until it's all Pepti or AA. Good luck, it's a tough time but you'll get through this.

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LateHouse · 05/03/2025 08:49

MysticCatLady · 05/03/2025 00:56

Goats milk is too similar. If he's rejecting the Pepti/AA formula, try to introduce it more slowly by mixing it in regular formula and then gradually reducing the amount of regular formula in the mix until it's all Pepti or AA. Good luck, it's a tough time but you'll get through this.

Thank you for this, I guess I'm just looking for anything that might help. We've tried all the tricks ie. 3/4 formula 1/4 pepti, thickener, vanilla extract, the lot. But still he screams when pepti is involved. Funnily when I can express enough breast milk for a full feed he will take that no problem.

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Superscientist · 06/03/2025 19:57

I believe around 90% of babies with cmpa will react to other mammalian milks such as goats so it's really only the minority of babies that have cmpa that are ok with goats milk formula.
Which amino acid formula have you tried? The hesitancy might be less the taste and more than they are still reacting to the pepti milk that's still dairy based.

My daughter had issues feeding as one of her allergies symptoms.

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LateHouse · 07/03/2025 18:57

Superscientist · 06/03/2025 19:57

I believe around 90% of babies with cmpa will react to other mammalian milks such as goats so it's really only the minority of babies that have cmpa that are ok with goats milk formula.
Which amino acid formula have you tried? The hesitancy might be less the taste and more than they are still reacting to the pepti milk that's still dairy based.

My daughter had issues feeding as one of her allergies symptoms.

Thank you for this, which formula did she settle on? What were her feeding issues, if you don't mind me asking?

I will go back to gp Monday and ask to try another brand

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Superscientist · 07/03/2025 19:42

She was breastfeeding at the time of her worse feeding aversions and was reacting to foods in my diet. She would be desperate for a feed but would suck once or twice pull off scream as my boob was poison. Latch back on do the same. 2 or 3 times. I would get her settled then an hour later she would be rooting for another feed and the same would happen. She went down to only feed a minute or two total in the day and only really feeding overnight when she seemed to be calmer and have less issues. I now know that proteins reduce in the milk over the order of hours so it could have been that overnight my milk had less of the foods she was reacting too.

We did move to formula eventually. She had 1oz of alimentum but it had coconut in which she was also allergic too. She stopped feeding after the Oz and then screamed from 7pm until 3am and didn't feed in that time! She was tricky to breastfeed the following day too. The only formula that doesn't have coconut in is alfamino and thankfully she took to that ok once we got her over the bottle aversion the alimentum caused

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LateHouse · 08/03/2025 04:51

Superscientist · 07/03/2025 19:42

She was breastfeeding at the time of her worse feeding aversions and was reacting to foods in my diet. She would be desperate for a feed but would suck once or twice pull off scream as my boob was poison. Latch back on do the same. 2 or 3 times. I would get her settled then an hour later she would be rooting for another feed and the same would happen. She went down to only feed a minute or two total in the day and only really feeding overnight when she seemed to be calmer and have less issues. I now know that proteins reduce in the milk over the order of hours so it could have been that overnight my milk had less of the foods she was reacting too.

We did move to formula eventually. She had 1oz of alimentum but it had coconut in which she was also allergic too. She stopped feeding after the Oz and then screamed from 7pm until 3am and didn't feed in that time! She was tricky to breastfeed the following day too. The only formula that doesn't have coconut in is alfamino and thankfully she took to that ok once we got her over the bottle aversion the alimentum caused

That sounds scarily similar to what is happening here.
I had originally been BFing however son had tongue tie and we struggled from the beginning so thought formula would help, ended up reacting (non-ige) screaming all day ect which is what prompted the move to cow milk allergy formula. Once we realised he was struggling so much with it (screaming on the bottle, increasing silent reflux ect) I have desperately tried to get back to BFing but he is doing as you described above. I assumed it was frustration at low supply but it could be something in my milk although I am dairy free.

Did you get to the bottom of what the allergies were?

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Superscientist · 08/03/2025 08:43

Eventually but it took time. She has 20!

Have you removed soya too? Eggs would be another one to look at. It took lots of food diaries to get to the bottom of her allergies as she's also nonige so they don't show up on tests