Rotten egg poo - any clues?

[MotherPanda]

Hi would love your thoughts on this.

DD was diagnosed with reflux at six weeks old, she had PV, extremely smelly wind and poos and was screaming with acid etc - have been using gaviscon ever since which did make her poos very hard and difficult for her - but it was less painful for her than the acid etc.

She has just turned 5 months so I have been trying to scale back the gaviscon to see if things have improved - only doing one or two gaviscons a day, there's a lot more sick but certainly none of the PV or screaming so far. Her poos have returned to an almost normal breast fed baby consistency, however the smelly wind and absolutely foul rotten egg smelling poos have returned.

Now, is the smell a reflux thing? And how does Gaviscon stop that? Or am I looking at some sort of milk allergy?I just don't understand how thickening the feed can stop this disgusting smell. Any ideas appreciated, and what steps should i take now?

hi i am no expert but i am speaking from my own experiance it does sound like she could have a milk protein allergy have you tried to cut out dairy products from your diet as this may help if not you could try neocate or nutramegin if i can help you in any way i will

Thanks worriedmummy - I really don't want to give up breastfeeding so won't try the formulas, but will have to think about trying to cut out the dairy.

I remember posting about this a few months ago.

Does colief have any effect for milk protein allergies? Giving up cheese will not be easy, and It would be brilliant if I could someone 'diagnose' it first.

hi it is very hard to diagnose as ideally she has to be dairy free for a while. you dont have to give up breastfeeding try to stop dairy products for 72 hours to see if it helps if it does then it indicates that there could be a problem. Colief does work to a certain degree so you could also try this first if you wanted to i think it is about £9.99 per bottle

That certainly isn't cheap.

The thing is, most of her symptoms went away whilst on gaviscon, she also had eczema and have learnt to manage that with infrequent baths in aqueous cream etc. Gaviscon constipated her but her poos didn't smell - could it still be some sort of milk allergy if the gaviscon stopped symptoms?

There is a fair bit of lactose intolerance and cows milk allergies in the family so I'm not too surprised if it is.

I can try 72 hours dairy free. At least christmas is over! will just finish of that tin of roses first...

gaviscon can help because it helps to make some of the lactose digestable but colief breaks it down even futher so more can be digested. my son also suffered with eczema i have found mimo products excellent as if it a milk allergy any products containing milk products and if she is allergic to milk this can make matters worse. Sorry dont mean to preach, just want to help.

My son who is 18 months old is milk soya gluten and wheat intolerant, and he to was also on gaviscon and rantilide and omperzole and it did help but his bowel movements stank as you say of egg this was when the hospital tried to do every other bottle as he was in neo natal unit for 5 weeks. then put on to nutrameign and now neocate
if i can help you let me know

Thank you - that is really helpful - I didn't know the gaviscon did that too. i'll try a dairy free period, and if that makes a difference will see my gp, perhaps i can convince them to prescribe a trial of colief. As she is 5 months old, we are starting to think about weaning, so will have to be careful about introducing any milk into her diet.

Your son has a fair bit of baggage there - at least you found out fairly quickly. How have you found weaning? was it quite easy to find safe foods?

it was easy weaning him and if you need i can pass you on loads of recipes, there is quite a few products out there to you wont see much of a difference until 48 hours after you stop eating dairy but from day three you should notice a difference