Nutramigen for over 2s?

[strawberrycornetto]

My DS is still on nutramigen. He is almost 2 and I have been told that it will not be prescribed to him once he is 2. He drinks about 8oz on/with his breakfast and I am worried about it being stopped. He has outgrown his dairy allergy in theory but we have not managed to get him drinking cows milk. This is partly because he's been consistently ill with chest problems so he's never well enough to introduce it. The chest problems turn out to be partially at least caused by reflux so I am not keen to rush to introduce milk. He also has had problems with soya so that isn't an alternative.

What can I do? He so loves his weetabix, he's very small for his age and it's his best meal of the day!

try oat milk, rice milk or goats milk or make the weetabix with water and start him on goat or sheeps milk cheese. Or buy nutramigen, although that is very expensive.

If he was mine and I was sure he'd outgrown the milk allergy I'd start mixing goats milk with his nutramigen now - quarter goats milk to 3/4 nutramigen, then increase the goats milk.

Our son is older (6) but we've recently had to stop his Neocate, and have put him on calcium-fortified rice milk. I would make sure that whatever alternative you choose does have added calcium (unless it's goat's milk).

Am not keen on goats milk because his consultant was really anti it. I guess I will try goats milk if I cannot get it prescribed. I am hoping that since he is in the middle of a diagnosis of his chest problems and about to start reflux meds they might let him continue for a couple of months.

i am currently waiting for a perscription of toddler neocate. might be worth asking for this instead. my son is almost 3 and we still recieve perscriptions without any problems.

By way of update, we have persevered with milk even though at first it did cause an eczema flare up. One of our dieticians suggested we boiled his milk and then another said to use UHT milk instead of fresh. We have been giving him just that with breakfast now for about 2 weeks and the eczema is back to "normal", i.e. just a very small amount. So he is now completely off nutramigen . We have about 10 days until he turns 2 and he is finally over the milk allergy, no nutramigen, lots of cheese and yogurt and the only remaining concession is UHT milk. Am very happy.