Help!! Need advice on my 3 month old

[JessH21]

My 3 month old has had colic and reflux from 2 weeks old. We have changed milk to comfort milk. We have given her gripe water and all the colic medicine on the market. When having the 8 week jabs, I mentioned all this to the doctor and she gave us gaviscon. We had our 2 week check up and everything is better... not fixed. She is more settled but she still crys, goes like cardboard and is sick alot. The doctor said if she is more settled to keep her on this until the weaning at 6 months. Having speaking to my mum friends they have mentioned about allergies and that we would want more from the doctor as she still has all the symptoms. What do you all think?

Yep if she's that upset I'd be considering cmpa. Especially if she has frothy, mucusy or green poos.

"What do you all think?"

I would tend to agree that it might be an allergy to the proteins in the milk. Around 1 in 10 babies have CMPA.

Have a read of this from Allergy UKK*

That's rough and of course I can see why you're worried.

My son and my niece had symptoms like this that were at their worst around 3 months and the reflux symptoms went away by 6 months.

I also know someone whose baby had a diagnosis of cow's milk protein allergy. She also had eczema which helped point to an allergy.

So in my experience allergies do happen but it doesn't have to be an allergy? If that helps ....

I approached my GP about silent reflux and she tried to palm me off with colic. I refused to accept it (I don't believe that babies just cry for no reason) and she prescribed gaviscon but it never worked for us. I asked for us to be prescribed Omeprazole in the end and it worked instantly and he was like a different baby. I would suggest trying Omeprazole as it may fix the reflux for you.

My daughter has a load of allergies and reflux. Her reflux is separate to the allergies and in many ways caused us more problems than her allergens.

She has needed highest doses of omperazole, infant gaviscon and domperidone to manage it in addition to removing her allergens from her diet. I would go back and ask for a trial of a dairy free formula and /or omperazole. Not all babies outgrow reflux at 6 months/ when weaning is started. I think something like 10% of babies have reflux at 12 months.

At the point of diagnosis my daughters only allergy symptoms was crying all day every day but later gut symptoms because apparent. I only noticed they were wrong when they started to improve