on TED and need help

[SarahAlexMom]

Hi,
My 9 week old Ds is allergic to diary and soy. After I stopped those, some of his symptoms(eczema and congestion) got better. But the poop was still mucusy and had blood in it. So I went on TED (eating only turkey, rice, yam and squash and pears) a couple of weeks ago. Since then, ds's poop has gotten better gradually, and at the end of last week, I haven't seen blood for a couple of days, and the mucus also has decreased considerably. The color also changed from green or green brown to brown yellowish. However, I still has at least 4 bowel movements a day.

I thought TED was quite sucessful. So I introduced chicken on Sunday. I had checken instead of turkey since Sunday night. Today (Tuesday), I noticed him being extremely fussy on the breast, and his last bowel movement was brown with a bunch of dark brown mucus and some streaks of blood.

My questions are:
Does the new poop with blood mean ds is allergic to chicken but not turkey? Or it is just a normal regress, since maybe I did not wait long enough for his guts to heal completely? Is four or 5 BM's a day too often for a 9 week old?
Shall I stop eating chicken immediately, or keep trying it for another day?
(I still have a bunch of cooked chicken, but no turkey in the house.)

Thank you for any help!

[kjbrown92]

It sounds like you were at baseline, and that chicken may be an offender (if it's regular old supermarket chicken though, it could be any number of issues -- corn-fed, antibiotics, hormones, etc.). My DS tested positive to both chicken and turkey, and they've been out of his diet for 7 months. I just checked chicken and it was a no-go, so I'm waiting a little while on the turkey.

[changingseasons]

Yeah, I would probably stop the chicken- sounds like a reaction to me.

I think that 4-5 bowel movements is normal for that young of a babe, but I could be wrong. Not many of us in the Allergy forum know what "normal" poo is.