Ebf reaction to cows milk, worsened eczema

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My exclusively bf 7 month old had a reaction to cows milk this morning - red blotchy and bumpy skin where she'd had contact and quite upset. Settled within 30mins. She already has eczema/dribble rash on cheeks and neck, this seems to have got worse post reaction. Plan to see GP on Mon. I eat dairy and thare has never been any obvious issues with my milk and baby.

Anyone else have similar experience and what was the outcome? Will I need to cut out dairy, is this potentially linked to the eczema? Many thanks!

Cannot give you advise on diet and eczema but I healed my DD's with calendula lotion after trying several other lotions.

Thank you, will look into this

GP gave us Dermol 500 last week for eczema, not really helped yet

That was the case with us too. GP kept giving all kinds of creams and nothing properly cleared her eczema away until I started using the calendula one. You can get it online or H&B, Boots, Superdrug etc.

It’s possible for babies not to react to cows milk via breast milk and to react directly when weaning. If there is eczema anyway and the baby has an allergy to cows milk creams won’t help until cows milk is removed from their diet

We were told that the milk protein in breast milk is broken down slightly so some children are fine with mum eating dairy but can't have it directly.

Eczema can definitely be linked to CMPA but if it's only cheeks/dribbly areas then that might just be the only reason.

Hi my DS was EBF, always had dry, scratchy skin etc- when I weaned him at 6 months I gave him baby porridge with milk in - came out immediately in hives and ended up in A&E. I cut the dairy out of my diet and within 2 weeks all his skin problems had gone. The doctors told me cutting dairy from my diet would have no effect, but the difference was remarkable.

The existing 'dribble rash' and cheek / neck eczema could be a symptom of milk intolerance / allergy. DS reacted to things in my milk that had a much more intense reaction when he consumed them directly. Last patch of eczema disappeared when I stopped feeding him despite me excluding a long list of food items.

Thanks @Imaginatrix
Remove cows milk from diet ie remove it from mine too? She has had the eczema for several weeks but hasn't been having cows milk via solids

Thank you @Bumblenums @ChateauMargaux I am willing to cut out the dairy if it means improving the eczema! Will be interesting to see what the GP says next week

DB, born 1955, was allergic to cow's milk. DM breastfed, but had to give him goat's milk when weaning onto cow's milk gave him eczema. I think she ordered it through the milkman (United Dairies horse-drawn float, S London). He grew out of it fairly quickly.

He was also allergic to wool. And to egg, marmite, dog saliva, and on and on. I know, because when he was primary school age, he had a proper allergy test, with various possible allergens applied to his arm. He reacted to all of them! I think he mainly grew out of these too.

Might be worth cutting it out from both and see if things improve, it takes about six weeks for everything to work out of your system. My son is allergic to cows milk and reacted to milk in my diet, I cut it out when he was diagnosed when he was four weeks and everything improved in the weeks following. He had eczema one patch of which we thought was a birthmark and cradle cap which again is a symptom of a cows milk allergy. If there’s an instant reaction it’s well worth seeing your GP and ask to be referred on to an allergy team for more advice. Hope you get sorted

@Imaginatrix that's interesting, she does have cradle cap, which has been quite stubborn to treatment. Thank you for your insight!