Baby skin issues - mild intolerance?

[bananamonkey]

DC2 is 8 weeks old and I’m starting to wonder if she’s mildly allergic to dairy or could these be signs of something else?

She’s EBF but a couple of weeks ago we started trying a bottle of formula, she’d only drink about 30ml but a few days later she started with a patchy dry rash on her torso which kept spreading. Dr suggested it was the formula so I’ve stopped it and it does seemingly to be improving. However the skin around her eyes is slightly red and I noticed today the skin behind her knees and in her wrist folds is red, maybe like eczema? She seems to have no issues 💩 once a day but she often wakes herself up doing huge farts that smell awful. Is it worth me going dairy-free for a bit? Neither DH or I have allergies, no issues with DC1, SiL was allergic to milk as a child. Or could it be something else?

Why are you ruling out eczema? If it looks like it...

I’m not ruling it out just wondering if something was triggering it? I don’t have any experience of eczema, would that also cause the eye redness?

Eczema can happen anywhere. The main places it can happen is in joint folds.

It might be a dairy/lactose allergy. The thing to do is cut things out one by one so you know the cause. If you cut things out/try different remedies all at once and something works, you dont know what the problem is making it harder to treat if it happens again.

My son was put on prescription milk when he was 8 weeks old as they thought he had a milk allergy. 4 weeks later we slowly introduced cow and gate back and hes been fine on it. I'm currently in the hospital with my son for a completely different reason and I mentioned cows milk allergy to the paediatrician yesterday and he explained a baby with a tolerance to the milk is very noticable. They lose lots of weight, look very pale and supposedly in quite a lot of pain as it causes inflammation to the gut.

Hope you get to the bottom of it

@laylor I saw on another post that you and your LO were in hospital. Hope everythings ok

Thanks @Letsallscreamatthesistene

Hes got a poor immune system so keeps picking up infections and struggling to fight them off bless him. This is 4th time in his 4 months of life. Feel like I'm doing something wrong. Dosent help that I still beat myself up daily for packing in breastfeeding. Thanks for your concern xx

Many people don’t realise skin issues usually come from food intolerances or allergy. Some doctors don’t even seem to know! But I’ve managed to prove this via eliminating foods from my diet (nuts cause me to get acne). My daughter had bad eczema on her legs caused by too much oranges. She can tolerate once in a while having, but if she has a few times a week she flares up w eczema. My friends daughter got it from tomato’s, ketchup etc.

My son got a rash as a baby when we tried to introduce formula. So we stopped it and rash went away. I also realised that may be the culprit of his frequent night wakings (my eating dairy and breastfeeding). I stopped dairy and he went from waking 5 times a night to only twice).

My eczema was caused / exacerbated by dairy when I was a kid, I had no other issues (digestion etc) with it though, so could be a mild intolerance that's just causing the skin issues