Evening all, need some advice please!
Our 6 week old has been suffering from silent reflux, since she was a week or so old. Took her to the doctors a couple of weeks ago and they advised us to start using carobel (she has always been formula fed, aptamil).
This seemed to be working well for her reflux, however last week we noticed that she was starting to get a bit of a rash on her face, chest and behind the ears, and runny poos which I think have mucous in (please can someone confirm? Will post some pics below). So we stopped using the carobel on Saturday.
Went to the GP this morning thinking they were just going to prescribe us gaviscon instead, but they have said they think it may be a slight intolerance to cows milk protein and prescribed us aptamil pepti 1.
Baby has not seemed to take to this at all today so far as it is so thin, seems to be making her reflux worse! She is actually being a bit sick which she wasn’t ever really before. She’s not a fussy baby at all apart from during feeds, so I was a bit surprised the be going straight down the intolerance route from the docs! But they have put the rash and diarrhea down to this rather than the carobel.
Whilst I know these symptoms are symptoms of CMPA, is it possible that this was just a reaction to the carobel and not the milk? She never had any problems (other than the silent reflux) before the carobel so I’m just really confused and after a bit of advice!
I don’t want to give her this aptamil pepti 1 if she isn’t liking it and making the reflux worse if she doesn’t actually need it, but also don’t want to dismiss it possibly being an intolerance.
Any advice welcome for an anxious FTM - thanks in advance 😊