5mo projectile vomiting - bit worried

[patandjess]

DS1 (5 months) has always brought up quite a bit of milk after feeds - sometimes a lot, resulting in me often being covered in milk! This hasn't really bothered me that much as he seems to be gaining weight nicely, is very happy, sleeps through the night etc. He is formula fed, on SMA gold, 5 x 8oz bottles a day.

But the last few weeks it has been bothering me a bit more as he always has quite dark green poo, and doesn't go every day. Sometimes he can not go for 2-3 days, but is generally ok when he does. Then today he has been projectile vomiting. Once about 3 hours after a feed, and then again straight after the next feed. The whole lot came up, with force. But he has been totally happy and smiley all day, and no other symptoms. Have just been reading about pyloric stenosis, and wondered if anyone had any ideas? Or could he just have a bug?

Hi patand jess,
As a mum of a milk allergic baby, you have a lot of the symptoms that appear with a milk protein allergy. Does he have any rashes/eczema?

He has had very dry skin on his head and doctor prescribed Double Base gel which as worked really well. GP doesn't think it is eczema, so I am taking his word for it. Thing is, DS doesn't seem like a baby allergic to CMP - he is happy, no real tummy pains etc, sleeps like an angel, is bonny and bouncy and chubby! But I have no real experience of allergies so don't really know what the signs are tbh.

Are you very careful about making up feeds - eg. never making it with cold water, using them as freshly as possible?