Lactose/milk intolerance ?

[LouiseT12]

We've been told by our health Vistor that my baby girl could be cows milk intolerance. I have our 6 weekly postnatal appointment on Monday. (Baby is 8weeksnold but has been delayed due to having to self isolate) I do think she is struggling with her milk but only past thes 2 weeks or so. Her stools are showing signs of not be able to digest her formula. Dark green/mucus/oily plus she pretty much does a poo whilst having the bottle like it goes straight through her, they also have bits of lumps in them like the milk is clumping together and just passing through her. I'm just wanting to know if anyone has come across this before? I'm wanting ideally some milk prescribed that will help her digest better. Any advice on what to say to the dr before I go in on Monday? And how to try meanwhile to get a very uncomfortable baby to have her milk 😫

Cows milk intolerance (due to protein) is not the same as lactose intolerance (due to the sugars). Depending on which it is will decide which milk to try

In a 6 week old baby, if there is a milk intolerance, it will almost certainly be to the cows milk protein, not to the milk sugar. There are two main sorts of milks designed for this. Hydrolysed formulas are ones where the protein is snipped into smaller pieces, so it's harder for the gut to recognise it as alien and react to it. This is usually the sort of milk used to start with. Amino acid based formulas are one where the protein is broken down all the way to the most basic building blocks, so the gut can't recognise it as alien. So this works in more severe cases, but smells/tastes foul so is harder to get the baby to take.

My daughter was diagnosed around 6 weeks old as lactose intolerant. She had green poo, distended stomach after feeding and constant screaming like she had colic. Some children are just born without the enzyme to digest lactose, shes 16 now and still gets diarrhoea/constipation, bloating, nausea etc if she eats anything with cows milk in .

As op said lactose intolerance is extremely rare in babies and tends to be genetic it’s much more likely to be cmpa. There is a great CMPA allergy Facebook group.