Intolerance to dairy?

[Imenti]

Hi all,

For the past few weeks my little girl who is 15 months has been having very loose stools - every day at nursery this week she has come home having soaked through her vests 2 or 3 times a day and nearly every time she needs a nappy change it is because of a poo.

She was EBF until 6 months, then had 1 bottle of formula a night and is now on 2 bottles of cows milk a day, no more breast feeding.

She always had extremely smelly farts and poos - really quite offensive! Much worse than my son ever did! I can't remember the last time I saw her do a "normal" poo, they are always varying degrees of diarrhoea. She eats well and has a healthy balanced diet. I'm wondering if she could have a cows milk intolerance or some other kind of intolerance? She's a happy little thing, doesn't have any tummy pain or anything so I don't think it's a full blown allergy.

Anyone else had anything similar and found out what the reason was? I'm thinking to try cutting out cows milk for a couple of weeks and see if it makes a difference, would that be long enough? Nursery can also give her a dairy free diet which is helpful.

Thank you!

There are two types of allergies immediate (rashes, hives swelling and anaphylaxis) and delayed which are more gastric. These are also called nonIGE.
I would be looking into cmpa if I was you. There is no test but removed dairy for 3-6 weeks and don't use soya dairy replacements during this time period but you don't need to remove soya completely- about half need to remove soya too so for those children if you switch from dairy to soya you won't see the improvement due to introduce a new allergy.

Once you have completed the 6 week or get to a stable position try introducing dairy