Please Help! REALLY WANT TO SOLVE THIS!

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DS was a very fussy newborn. Suspected silent silent reflux, but eventually over supply/fast letdown issues were diagnosed. Various management techniques helped, along with Colief. This presumably helped with the lactose overload - I don't really know, only that it made him into a different baby.

However, he stopped sleeping, in hindsight, probabaly around the time I stopped giving colief (D'oh!). It was such a sleep-deprived blur I am not sure (instructions said they shouldn't need it much after 12 weeks).

All I know is I now have a 6 month old who wakes just about every 1 1/2 - 2 hours with flatulence (very smelly and noisy) and what appears to be stomach ache. I sometimes feed back to sleep, sometimes just pat/cuddle (co sleeping as only way I can survive this). He writhes around, grunting and clearly uncomfortable, though not fully awake and can do so for hours, or just frequently for a few minutes.

He is EBF. I have been dairy free for 3 weeks now and saw little effects except his (minor) excema cleared up (oh, and I am starving!). He is hungry for solids but when he has them he is up all night with stomach ache and flatulence (tried 100% baby ric with ebm and fruit/veg etc, all same results) and diahorrea the next day.

The last 4 nights I have given him Colief before bed. He slept 6 hours! Then last night back to being awake all night

Just as I thought I'd cracked it. This can't be right can it? Do I need to cut our soya too? I am awating referral but so desperate for sleep right now would love to understand the cause of his wind problems. I feel my older DS is missing out as I am so tired. Can anyone give me any advice, I understand so little about allergies and suchlike. Also posted in 'Allergies'

DH has hayfever and FIL has excema btw.

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DS had bad flatulence, especially at night from starting solids at 6 months till well past 12 months. It gradually got better with time. He's allergic to hazelnuts (which we've only just discovered at 23 m.o.) but has no problem with dairy, eggs or soya. Our trial exclusion of gluten was inconclusive (his eczema flared up when I reintroduced it but it coincided with him getting a cold, so I think that was probably the cause).

I would experiment with cutting out soya - it sounds as if the dairy has made something of an improvement, judging by his eczema, and IIRC, about 60% of children who have cows milk protein allergy are also allergic to soya. It's a PITA as soya is in lots of things like bread.

If it were just dairy causing the problems, I think you should have seen an improvement by now - unless you're eating dairy you're not aware of, which is easily done (my initial problems were with identifying it in margarine, sausages, stuffing and gravy).

just a little question - if you use colief do you still have to cut out dairy?

Hi, yes as colief breaks down lactose which is present in bm, cutting out dairy is due to suspected cows milk protein intolerance which is different. I think lactose is a sugar.

I dont really know what I am doing tbh! I just want some sleep.