Dairy free diet (bf)..how long to see if it works?

[jellybeans]

Hi DS is 3.5 months, excl bf, and has horrid reflux and has been on Domperidone and Omeprazole for several weeks, his does increased recently. Hasn't helped that much (although he is less irritable, a couple hours a day rather than all day) so my Paed suggested the next step could be trying dairy free. I started about 10 days ago and not seen much difference yet. DS has an inflamation rash round his mouth which is still there and still refluxing quite severely after a feed/choking etc. I have been strict for about 10 days..no soya/milk proteins/eggs. How long should I go on with this before deciding it is not working? Thanks in advance.

Just a note to say i tried dairy free a few weeks back and it made no difference but i just cut out actual milk and cheese and drank soya milk. This time it is strict!

I have had to do a dairy free diet for my ds2 and have just been able to come off it. The hospital said we should have seen a difference in a few days if it was going to work.

Hello Jellybeans! Slightly different but our DD gets dreadful eczema. We found that she was reacting to a number of foods incl. milk/milk products, eggs and soya. It was taking her 3-4 weeks for the reaction to clear especially egg which she gave a strong response to (she'd go bright red if I bf her after eating an egg and then the skin would start to go icky).

I hope the little mite gets better soon!

I did it for 9 weeks in the end and for us it didn't seem to make any difference. Be really careful checking food labels though because i had a couple of slip ups when there was a milk product in something you wouldn't expect it to be in.

I guess with eczema though we were waiting for the skin to calm down and the inflammation/irritation to subside.

tutu100 is right on about the labels! I just started cooking everything from scratch as we were off wheat/egg/milk/fish/nuts/peanuts/legumes/soya in a desperate bid to try to bring it under control. It was everywhere and getting infected all of the time.

Thanks will double check everything!