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Second child with milk allergy or normal?

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Allboxedin · 03/12/2011 20:43

Hi,

I have a 6 week old DD and a 26 month old DD.

DD1 was diagnosed with milk allergy when she was about 3 months and was put on Nutramigen (was also allergic to soya) until she was 12 months when she grew out of it slowly.
She also had very nasty eczema which was treated with steroid creams (also grown out of that now) and now has asthma.

Anyway, as it is a while ago I forgot how DD1 reacted when we gave her milk so am unsure if this is similar or 'normal'
DD2 sometimes feeds fine but at other time gets very whingy and fussy, almost like she wants to feed but can't and wriggles about. She winds fairly well most of the time but could this just be wind?
Also she has been sick only several feeds. (I know a bit is normal) and I am trying not to overestimate how much she is sick. It isn't 'projectile' vomiting though. The other thing is that she has had a snuffly nose a few times and I read that this could be a symptom?

There is no sign of eczema yet (although she has very dry skin on her feet and legs) which cleared up a little with some oilatum.

Am I worrying too much or should I be concerned?

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Allboxedin · 03/12/2011 20:44

ps, we are FF now after I had to stay in hospital with DD1 a few weeks ago.

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LordOfTheFlies · 03/12/2011 21:44

Mine had something with their skin but I don't know if it was an allergy.
When DS started weaning onto solids (about 6 months IIRC) he got red patches on his knees and elbows.I asked the HV, she said it was crawling, but he'd been doing that a while and had progressed to cruising by this time.
Then he got peeling skin on his feet.His heels looked like the surface of a cut orange (weird).
We did an elimination process and tried organic milk which he was fine on, then slowly yoghurt and ice-cream.

DD had the same skin condition, but organic milk made no difference, so we put her on soya milk/yoghurt which she loved. It was hard to get her onto cows milk later.Grin

Mine were never sick or snuffly though.Can't help there.

Allboxedin · 03/12/2011 22:01

Thanks LOF. Am hoping the dry skin is not the beginnings of the horrible eczmea DD 1 had.

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eragon · 05/12/2011 10:46

could still be colic, rather than intolerence symptoms. babies often have dry feet, was baby overdue?

do all the normal things, change teat on bottle to change flow or reduce air swallowing etc.

if skin does get suddenly very dry all over etc, then consider the allergy aspects of cows milk.
good luck!

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