Is my baby intolerant to cows milk? Help!

[Amysullivan]

Long story short we had to change our baby's formula from normal aptamil to the comfort one, this seemed to settle his stomach as before he had been crying out in pain a lot and his stomach had be gurgling. However after about a month on the comfort milk he still seems to be suffering. He rarely sleeps for longer than 15 minutes without waking up as if he's in pain, he pops off a lot and sometimes cries with it and over the past three days his poo has been green, today his poo had red flecks in it. He is also quite wheezy.

We have taken him to the doctors today, which we felt was a waste of time as he didn't really listen to what we had to say and said it might be an intolerance but to bring him back in a week.. I don't want to leave him another week in pain when he's been like this since birth! (His now 7 weeks old)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Yes, potentially. Speak to a different GP. You know your baby best. Emphasise the wheeezyness as that is defo allergy symptom. Poos don't sound normal either

Mine was 8 weeks when we realised he had silent reflux and then 11 weeks when we realised it was coupled with milk allergy. Those first few months were hell.

Please please speak to another GP. It took me 5 before someone listened. All said try infacol, gaviscon, thickener in the milk. Nothing worked. He was projectile vomitting his milk out after feeds, awful wind, tummy cramps, hardly sleeping, just crying poor bub. Awful poos. We did aptimil, then the sensa aptimul. Didnt work. We then got prescribed alimentum similac and it definitely helped. If you can get some or they have quite a few others it takes around 6 weeks for "bad" milk to fully leave babys body so give it time. If no improvement go back and try another. We tried 5 milks from when he was 10 weeks to 8 months and finally settled om Neocate LCP.

Buy a tub of aptamil pepti 1 and see how he is in a week, then go back and get a prescription if it improves.

If it doesn’t improve go back and be more persistent, I don’t know why but GPs seem to be inept at dealing with this type of stuff (x 2 mum here). Yet they’re great with me. Go figure.

Anyway.. I hope it improves for you