Hello,
Has anyone else experienced a reaction with the rotavirus vaccination?
My baby boy had his 8 week vaccinations last Friday, almost immediately after the vaccinations he poo’d and it just kept coming.. hourly if not more frequent!
I’d breastfed baby exclusively for 2 weeks then mix fed up to 5 weeks using Aptimil which I soon changed to Hipp Organic at the advice of my pediatrician Dr (being a boy less estrogen in the formula). I decided switch completely to formula feeding at this point as I’d faced multipl challenges with the breastfeeding which I won’t go into but emotionally left me feeling quite down in the dumps.
Baby went from giving my tones of dirty sweet smelling seedy nappies to only ‘one’, more formed but still soft and yellow, huge nappy a day. He would struggle all day to give me this but I know switching from breast to formula can do this.
Anyhow, so vaccinations happened on Friday and although I stayed on top of the Calpol I felt as though baby was very hot to touch, having said that I was checking his temperature regularly with an ear thermometer and he was fine, 36.7 at most!
Come Sunday morning I notice a golden mucus in his poo and he seemed pretty unsettled with a tummy ache, crying randomly whilst desperately trying to suck his dummy, screwing up his face and thrashing his legs, (although he had been pretty windy prior I do admit and we have been using the infacol to help with this).
Come Monday I then noticed a few tiny specks of bright red blood in his poo coupled with the mucus which was sometimes blood stained and he was off of he feeds.
Usually he would take 6oz and still want more but I’m only managing to get 150ml at absolute most down him, some feeds he’s only taking 2oz and thrashing his legs up mid feed crying. He has always posseted but I feel lately he’s been bringing up more milk.
I took him to GP yesterday morning (not my usual paediatric GP) and he said it looks as though he was fighting a bit of the live Rotavirus and to basically let it ride out as he would be building a strong immunity against the virus.
I then later get a phone call from GP to say Rotavirus can cause some sort of infection and if he seems in a lot of pain then I should seek further medical help. With this I took him straight to A&E!!
The paediatric nurse took one look at a dirty nappy and confidently told me that she thinks he has had an allergic reaction to the Cows milk protein and to switch to a prescriptive formula Nutramigen
Could this just be a huge coincidence that he’s showing signs of an allergy towards Cows milk protein at the same time he’s just had his vaccinations or has anyone else experienced anything similar with the Rotavirus vaccination? I’m wishing I hadn’t gone ahead with this vaccination and I really feel helpless for my little boy :(
Meanwhile, I’m still changing him what feels like every five minutes and almost every nappy change is a pooey one, some with teeny tiny specks of blood, some without but almost every dirty nappy with this stringy mucus.
Sorry for the long tread but I wanted to give the compete picture. Any advice greatly appreciated.
Rubi x