organic baby follow on formula & skin reaction?

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Have just been to GP re skin problems. May be excema on my 8 mth old, red patchy legs (particularly top and behind knees), arms (inside elbows), a bit on face and patches on bottom - not nappy rash. Seems to be sore thend go dry and a little crusty.
Have been using aqueous cream, oilatum bath and cream. Have read that vaseline is bad if excema.

GP said creams fine but also suggested may be allergic reaction to formula although who knows. He suggested possible move to soya. I was reading an earlier thread about soya formula and dangers. I dont want to trawl through all that again but just wondered if anyone had thought that it might be organic follow on formula that was causing a reaction in their baby. I am using "HIpp" brand thinking that all things organic must be good and all that!
Of course I know it could be anything ... immature digestive tract etc.. or all these new foods.

I breast fed fed until 6 months and then started on organic follow on. Didnt link dry skin/excema with the change but it may have been about the same time as the change over, but then again so was increase in new foods.

I'll stop rambling.... Would welcome any thoughts!!!!

Well it's not because it's organic that you would not be allergic or reacting to it. Milk is milk!
Why not go with rice milk, sweet almond milk (which is most people on the continent use to replace "normal" milk) or goats' milk... if you do a search on "follow-on" - you'll see that most of us believe your baby does not need follow on... it's just a marketing gimmic anyway!

If you remove the follow-on, them remove cow's yogourt and cheese as well.... and repace it with goat products - easily available nowadays!

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Sounds a lot like my DS had at about the same age - but in our case soya made things a lot worse. Apparently that's very common - quite a high proportion of children who react to cows milk will react to soya too, to the extent that the consultant we saw said they were now actively considering recommending goats milk before trying soya where a dairy reaction was suspected.

Switching ds to goats milk improved things within a day or two, and he now seems to be ok with small quantities of cows milk in food, and yoghurt/cheese seem to be fine in any quantity. It does seem as if he's growing out of it, or perhaps it's just a volume related thing and he can tolerate milk in smaller quantities than when it was one of his main sources of food, but I haven't plucked up the courage to try ordinary cows milk yet as he still drinks a lot of milk (a litre a day isn't unusual).

Robinw, do you have anymore info about growth rates and hypoallergenic formula?

I'd be very interested as ds, who was a huge baby but is now a tiny toddler, has been on nutramigen.

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I'm relieved that it was just you having a bad week robinw! One less thing to worry about!

My ds had quite a severe allergic reaction to both cow's-milk and goat's-milk formula when I tried it with him at about 7 months of age. The gp I took him to mentioned soya, but referred us to the paediatric dietician at the hospital, who said they do not recommend soya, and prescribed a non-allergenic formula - Nutramigen. This was disgusting and my ds wouldn't drink it, so I had to keep breastfeeding and cut dairy products out of my diet. He got over the allergy completely by the age of about 18 months and now has no trace of eczema.

Rice milk has virtually no fat and as such is considered unsuitable for a "follow-on milk". I would definitely try to get to see the dietician at your local hospital. Mine also prescribed a calcium supplement, as she did not consider that my ds would be getting enough from breastfeeding by that stage.

Robin.... why is it that "only" Brittain (versus France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands,...) recommend almond milk as a substitute.... I have raised the "nut" allergy issue with people there... and they did not see almonds as "nuts" from the sort of nuts we get allergies from.

Do you know more?