CMPA allergy or something else?

[claire913]

Hi everyone,

My 4 months old has had blood in her stool for over 2 weeks. I cut out all dairy 10 days ago but there's been little change. If anything the blood may be worse. Some days it's also green, today is one of those days.

Doctor sent for a stool sample test just to make sure it's not anything else, it came back clear.

I haven't yet cut out eggs because I wanted to test dairy first.

She's gaining weight beautifully, in fact we had some tongue tie issues and she wasn't gaining well so we have thankfully passed that. Not sure if maybe because she's getting more milk in it's now causing issues in her gut?

For those of you who have had cmpa allergies or blood in the stool, how long did it take of cutting out dairy for you to notice no blood?
If it wasn't dairy was it anything else? I don't eat much wheat but I do eat eggs every day!

Thank you 🙏🏼

I would cut out soya if you haven't already. Half of babies are allergic to both. I'd then start a food diary maybe do a few days without eggs and a few days with eggs to see if you can see any difference. Keep an eye on beef too as 10% of babies with cmpa react to beef as wells as cows milk
Absolutely anything can be a good allergen. My daughter has 20 and has more vegetables on her list than top 14 allergens! We only got on top of them by keeping really detailed food and symptom diaries. They had everything in and we started to see behavioural changes as first responses and much earlier than the impact on her poos which really helped in identifying the allergens. Two game changers were her being harder to feed and being harder to stay occupied. She just wanted to be held and paced around the room

@Superscientist wow thank you that's very helpful! So interesting to look at behaviours as the first tell!! Definitely need to be more aware and will start a detailed food diary. It seems like soy is in so many things. I thought I didn't eat it.
Shame 20 allergens must be quite hectic to manage!

Soya is a pain to avoid at first until you get your list of safe products, especially in bread which is so supermarket dependent. Sainsbury's and Morrisons are awful. Tesco and Aldi are good. Branded bread are awful, bread products are ok usually - pittas, bagels wraps etc and the bakery breads.
Nomo and moo free chocolate are ok.
Coconut collaboration and oatly yoghurts are creams are nice.

It was hard but now we have our safe list it's mostly ok. She's 4 now and she was 4 months when we started on our journey. Eating out is tricky and anything in a packet so we mostly have whole foods and cooking from scratch.

Thanks so much for the help @Superscientist