cough causing projectile vomiting

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dd 9 mo will drink 6oz of bottle have coughing fit and it all comes back up been happening a week now maybe on bottle a day

spoke to doc about it no advice am hoping for more from mumsnet geniuses

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DS is almost 9 months and had a bad cough recently - the same was happening with him. Soon after drinking milk he'd start coughing and puke everywhere in huge quantities.

The doctor said he has "allergies" that are making him cough, and this in turn makes him throw up. Not helped by the fact that milk is an irritant to the stomach.

DS tends to do it at night in his cot, so we've put a humidifer in his room, and he has cough medicine (prescribed by doc) just before bed.

with the inverted commas you don't believe the allergies?

dd does it mid feed bless her our just when you get to the 7oz mark start to feel oh yes shes taken some then woosh

Give her 5 oz and stop. Then give her the rest 30 mins later if she needs it.

And btw - why a bottle and not a cup? Is she eating solids/finger foods? If so she needs much less milk during the day so maybe this is her way of telling you?

My DS was exactly the same at a similarish age iirc. He used to have a full bottle of milk before bed and then wake up after a couple of hours, cough cough cough and everything would come back up (including what he had for tea!) After a couple of weeks of this, we switched to giving him his bedtime milk in a sippy cup so he drank less and certainly slower - bingo, it has never happened since we switched.

Think Gagarin has a point - maybe a full bottle of milk is just too much?

barely sipping from the 4 different cups we have tried

refusing solids from spoon at moment and flinging finger food

thanks for the 5 oz advice i really don't think we'll get anything into her with a cup

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Our 3DC are all allergic to dairy and egg. Now regret the number of exposures that the first had to his allegens. His skin is the worst. Food allegeries then terrible ezcema then asthma -> "atopic march". Don't mess with allegies: reactions can get progressively worse and life threatening. My youngest has been in the ambulance twice (fish and kiwi reactions)

do allergies just come on l
to milk like this

not an expert but I myself only developed reaction to milk in my 30s ! My son had fish a few times before he reacted. I think that the immune system mal functions and thinks it is under attack. Flare ups might occur due to different things going on in the body from my experience. All three DC use Nutramigen Hypoallergic formula including 9 year old! He doesn't remember what real milk tastes like but need to get kids hooked early as the taste is not great to me!

will keep an eye on that thanks toughdaddy

The doc meant the American style "allergies" which is just a catch all for hay-fever/tickly cough/excema - he wasn't meaning a dairy allergy.

Am dubious as they seem to blame everything on allergies here - the doc wanted me to start giving DS a daily pill which I wasn't happy with.

A couple of weeks later he's over the cough so glad we didn't start dosing him.

am wary of drugging them up myself MM

Megcleary is it the morning bottle this happens with by any chance? dd has had this a few times when she's had a cold, drinking a lot of the bottle and then coughing and it pours out of her. found that it was worse in the morning. what I did was wait a bit before giving her a bottle (instead of giving it as soon as she woke up) - to give her chest time to clear after waking up - does that make sense?

makes sense migola but we usually give her half an hour of crawling around before the morning bottle