Cows milk protein allergy

[flyingbeet]

My baby is 3 months old and is EBF. I strongly suspect she has cows milk protein allergy as I've cut out dairy from my diet and she's doing a lot better. However I've had dairy cut out from my diet for 4 weeks now and some days she will still get some of her symptoms. They aren't as extreme as before but she still gets them. This has made me start wondering if she may be allergic to something else too, if she may not even have a cows milk protein allergy or if I may not be strict enough in eliminating it from my diet ( I eat foods that say "may contain milk") Any mum's with babies who have a cows milk protein allergy, how did it go for you?

Try cutting out soya as alot of babies with cmpa are allergic to soya too.

To add on I got my baby vaccinated today. Could that have milk protein in it?

Are you checking all ingredients in everything- bread? Gravy? Crisps ? Etc

Soya is a similar protein so could be that orbit could be your child has a sensitive stomach as well as an allergy. You could keep a food diary?

Unless they have changed the vaccines don't have milk protein in.

Vaccines don't have milk protein but can make baby unsettled.

It sounds like she does have cmpa because the symptoms settled. Ideally you would have challenged the allergy by consuming a big glass of milk or a yogurt to see if symptoms returned in 72 hours. The protocol is to then (if no symptoms return) eat a yogurt every day for 3 days, then if no reaction 72 hours after the final yogurt you can say she doesn't have cmpa. Obviously stop if there is a reaction.

But something else seems to be irritating her if it's every few days. In your shoes I would use a food diary to track what it is. Crucially remembering it can take up to 72 for the reaction to occur so you need to track back a few days in your diary each time. Top culprit is soya then egg I'd say.

I had an EBF baby with an obvious milk allergy, and egg was the other closely related allergy for her. She's always been good with soy and is actually much better with milk now (i.e. she can handle small amounts that have been cooked to death), but the egg allergy is very severe and can cause anaphylaxis.

Does anyone else in your family have allergies? That might give you a clue of what allergies she's more likely to have (although it's always possible for it to be different). For instance I have DNs who have also had milk and egg allergies as young children, but so far DD is the only one not to have grown out of it. (She has peanut/tree but allergies as well!)