To think my son has an allergy?

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Posting in AIBU for traffic, might not be the best place.

My 4'month old is EBF. He has always been a bit sick after feeding (normal posseting) but this seems to be increasing in volume (most of a feed). It stinks. He also has very loose poos which seem a bit mucus like (and smell a bit fishy) and he wakes up at night like he's in pain- drawing his legs up to his tummy. I've noticed a slight wheeze in the past 24 hours.
In himself he doesn't seem ill so I was wondering if this sounds like an allergy to dairy in my diet?
I will be making him a GP appointment in the morning (and hopefully will get him seen this side of Christmas- don't think I can blag an urgent appointment for it) but was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

mistigri - Could it have been that she was allergic to something else in your diet like egg for example that caused her to still react to the milk even after the removal of dairy? My son used to react awfully if I had egg products so I had to remove them from my diary too.

Had you been advised to be dairy free when you were feeding your son too then or was he CMPA too?

My son would also react on contact with my breast milk but only if I’d had egg or dairy. After a breast feed the skin all around his mouth would flare up because my milk had been in his skin. I once tried to give him breast milk in a bottle (after I’d had some dairy) and because he wiped the teat all over his face and milk came out his while face went red. As an experiment I expressed some milk onto his leg and within minutes the skin went red - it was so bizarre.

Once I stopped having dairy and egg though the contact reactions stopped.

As part of trialling his tolerance levels though I had a milkshake 5 days ago and as of yesterday the skin around his mouth/cheeks has started flaring up again following a breast feed.

Hopefully the levels of dairy in my milk will start to drop again soon though and things can return to normal.

*mistigri - Could it have been that she was allergic to something else in your diet like egg for example that caused her to still react to the milk even after the removal of dairy? My son used to react awfully if I had egg products so I had to remove them from my diary too.

Had you been advised to be dairy free when you were feeding your son too then or was he CMPA too?*

@QueenofmyPrinces no, she has no other food allergies (lots of non-food allergies though). We live in France so she was looked after by an allergy consultant from 6 months to 6 years old and she had a lot more testing than you'd get in the UK - blood, skin prick, patch and challenge testing. Eventually outgrew the milk allergy though it took a long time.

I cut out milk when pregnant with and then breastfeeding my son in the hope of reducing the risk of him having allergies (strong family history - I have numerous food allergies, some severe). I'll never know if it made any difference but he has no food allergies although he does have some environmental allergies.

We only realised that DD was genuinely allergic to breastmilk when she was a toddler and she drank some expressed milk accidentally - she had quite a major reaction (hives and swelling down her chin and neck). So her eczema clearing up when she weaned onto soya milk definitely wasn't a coincidence.

Do not self diagnose or start excluding without medical guidance

Do not self diagnose or start excluding without medical guidance

Why?
Do vegans seek medical guidance? Do those who dislike cows milk seek medical guidance?

All you need is common sense, and know that you need calcium. This can easily be swapped for coconut milk which has the same amount of calcium. Or supplements or simply nesquik in alternative milk.
Very full of calcium.
Common sense and helps rule out CMPAZ

*CMPA

Do not self diagnose or start excluding without medical guidance

Why? Do vegans seek medical guidance? Do those who dislike cows milk seek medical guidance?

Exactly. Of the four doctors I saw, three of them said it wasn’t CMPA and thankfully I listened to the one who said it was.

There is no harm at all of someone cutting dairy from their diet if they supplement in other ways so if it can improve the health of her baby then why wouldn’t a woman try it for 6 weeks?!

Regardless of anything else, if he is wheezing he must been seen by a doctor asap.