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Kendamil - allergy - what could this be?

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LouBIL · 12/02/2025 14:32

Hi all,

Sorry this might be a complicated-ish question but wondered if anyone’s experienced this or could shed some light.

My 10m LO was combi fed from birth and had bad reflux. His reflux always seemed worse when I fed him rather than him having the formula. He dropped three centiles and we were topping up etc to get his weight up.

When we started weaning he had a bad reaction to Oats (since been diagnosed with FPIEs) and weetabix. As time went on we thought he was reacting to gluten so were referred to a paediatric who specialises in Coeliac. We were told to reintroduce gluten for a blood test, which we started about four weeks ago.

Around the same time we switched to the new cartons of Kendamil. I then saw a Tik Tok saying that someone’s baby was reacting to the new formula, then there were loads of comments saying the same thing and thought the formula had changed. LO was getting bad nappies and more sickness and we put this down to the gluten.

Recently my friend donated about 30 ready to drink bottles so I thought I’d try giving him that for a week and his nappies and sickness improved. I then had an old pot of the powdered Kendamil and started to reintroduce that and LO broke out in an eczema rash all over his body with spots head to toe.

I’ve looked and the ingredients in the ready to drink are different to the powder and the powder includes lactose. Could this mean he’s got a lactose intolerance but ok with dairy?? He used to be ok with the powder but could the weeks break triggered something?

Stopped the powder for two days now and the rash is disappearing!

I feel like I’m always second guessing everything he eats and reacts to and feel like I’m at such a loss all the time :(

I’ve added screenshots of the ingredients. The one with Lactose is the powder and one without is Ready to Drink.

Kendamil - allergy - what could this be?
Kendamil - allergy - what could this be?
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Superscientist · 12/02/2025 14:48

If it was lactose intolerance he would react to breast milk.
My daughter has coconut allergy and that seems to be in one and not the other. Sorry not sure which is which.

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LouBIL · 12/02/2025 15:47

Superscientist · 12/02/2025 14:48

If it was lactose intolerance he would react to breast milk.
My daughter has coconut allergy and that seems to be in one and not the other. Sorry not sure which is which.

Hi, thanks for coming back. I think he was reacting to my breast milk over formula. That’s why we came to the gluten allergy because we knew he was reacting to something I was eating and when we were weaning his reactions got worse.

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Superscientist · 12/02/2025 16:54

I meant breastmilk itself is high in lactose rather than reacting to foods you were eating. Breastfed babies with lactose intolerance get very poorly

dementedpixie · 12/02/2025 16:59

The milk in both products will naturally contain lactose. It looks like they maybe add extra to the powdered version.
Could you afford to do a longer trial using ready made and see if it helps?

An89 · 13/02/2025 04:23

LouBIL · 12/02/2025 14:32

Hi all,

Sorry this might be a complicated-ish question but wondered if anyone’s experienced this or could shed some light.

My 10m LO was combi fed from birth and had bad reflux. His reflux always seemed worse when I fed him rather than him having the formula. He dropped three centiles and we were topping up etc to get his weight up.

When we started weaning he had a bad reaction to Oats (since been diagnosed with FPIEs) and weetabix. As time went on we thought he was reacting to gluten so were referred to a paediatric who specialises in Coeliac. We were told to reintroduce gluten for a blood test, which we started about four weeks ago.

Around the same time we switched to the new cartons of Kendamil. I then saw a Tik Tok saying that someone’s baby was reacting to the new formula, then there were loads of comments saying the same thing and thought the formula had changed. LO was getting bad nappies and more sickness and we put this down to the gluten.

Recently my friend donated about 30 ready to drink bottles so I thought I’d try giving him that for a week and his nappies and sickness improved. I then had an old pot of the powdered Kendamil and started to reintroduce that and LO broke out in an eczema rash all over his body with spots head to toe.

I’ve looked and the ingredients in the ready to drink are different to the powder and the powder includes lactose. Could this mean he’s got a lactose intolerance but ok with dairy?? He used to be ok with the powder but could the weeks break triggered something?

Stopped the powder for two days now and the rash is disappearing!

I feel like I’m always second guessing everything he eats and reacts to and feel like I’m at such a loss all the time :(

I’ve added screenshots of the ingredients. The one with Lactose is the powder and one without is Ready to Drink.

Honestly, I found kendamil to be a pile of crap. I wish I could warn more people, - it caused baby sooooo many issues!! Severr constipation, awful gas.
If you type kendamil onto mumsnet there are so many reviews at how it's affected so many babies

Newmumhere40 · 13/02/2025 04:43

When will people realise no one should be drinking bloody dairy!! Get him and you off dairy and see what happens!!

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LouBIL · 13/02/2025 08:12

An89 · 13/02/2025 04:23

Honestly, I found kendamil to be a pile of crap. I wish I could warn more people, - it caused baby sooooo many issues!! Severr constipation, awful gas.
If you type kendamil onto mumsnet there are so many reviews at how it's affected so many babies

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Oh tell me about it! I wish we’d never started it, plus we spent months not being able to get it as it was out of stock everywhere! I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone but as we’ve only got a couple of months left I’m reluctant to change it!

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An89 · 13/02/2025 08:53

Newmumhere40 · 13/02/2025 04:43

When will people realise no one should be drinking bloody dairy!! Get him and you off dairy and see what happens!!

What should babies be drinking instead?

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LouBIL · 13/02/2025 16:59

dementedpixie · 12/02/2025 16:59

The milk in both products will naturally contain lactose. It looks like they maybe add extra to the powdered version.
Could you afford to do a longer trial using ready made and see if it helps?

I have bought some more ready to drink to continue testing. The rash is nearly gone. I’m tempted to try the powder again in a few days and see if he reacts.

I’m not sure what to do long term, the new Kendamil is definitely causing issues so do we switch formula or just take the hit with the ready made for a couple of months?

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Tbird5 · 13/02/2025 18:21

Hi
If you think your baby is reacting to milk, it does sound like it, baby will be most likely reacting to proteins in the milk rather then lactose. Lactose allergy in infants is rare. Allergy to milk proteins is very common. I'd advise joining 'real CMPA' on Facebook, you'll get much better advise due to us all on there going through very similar situations. Good luck x

Aria777 · 18/04/2025 00:12

@LouBIL please can you share if continuing to be on the ready to feed made a difference? We have noticed the same thing, baby developed eczema from moving to resdy to feed to formula. Emailed kendamil but they were useless, but looking at the ingredients the key difference was coconut

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