Has my baby outgrown CMPA

[Aisha92]

Hello everyone,

My 1 year old has been on SMA Althera since she was 3 months old. Prior to that she was having breast milk and Aptamil however would have extremely loose slimey poo’s and terrible nappy rash and was diagnosed with mild CMPA.

I have been introducing dairy into her diet since 7 months old and have now started adding cows milk into her bottles (eg. 4 Oz formula and 3 oz whole milk). I have been monitoring her and she’s been okay so thinking to switch to cows milk completely? She has been a bit more constipated since adding cows milk but my 5 year old was the same when he started having cows milk and anyone I speak to says the same so wondering if this is just normal.

How will I know if she’s outgrown her CMPA as it is near enough impossible to see an allergist etc

An allergist can't tell you either because it sounds like a non-ige allergy. All I would suggest is monitor symptoms in the long term. I see a lot of people with 8-10 year olds with severe constipation and then it turns out they had cmpa symptoms as a baby. So ultimately they never got over the allergy but maybe the symptoms were harder to spot as they aged.

With the constipation issue I would say they haven’t outgrown it.

did you follow the milk ladder? They’re supposed to be completely dairy free for a year before starting the milk ladder. The first step is baked milk.

You don’t grow out of allergies

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I did follow the milk ladder and she seemed to be tolerating it all well (besides the yoghurt but the gp said that could have been because of teething)

Sorry just to correct myself when I say constipated I mean compared to the 4-5 runny poops we’re used to. She has pooped twice today and the first was hard but the second was normal.

I was going to switch her on to oats milk but just thought I’d try cows milk and see how she reacts before doing so. Now I’m confused with how to proceed!

@Nearly50omg not strictly true…
with cmpa (non-ige) it is possible to outgrow it, I think the majority are supposed to grow out of it by the age of five. It doesn’t make the allergy any less valid whilst they have it though.
You are, however, supposed to slowly introduce the allergen back in very slowly by doing the milk ladder.
Unfortunately my DS is one of the minority who didn’t outgrow the allergy though.