Hi, I'm trying to help a friend out and am wondering if there is anyone here who has/had an infant with milk, soy, and corn intolerances/allergies.
Since my son is MSPI, I think I see that behind every bush. I was hoping that wouldn't be the case with my friend when her infant started having issues with her infant born in January. Long story short, she insisted that she couldn't live without cow's milk and didn't think she could do the diet. She was determined to try soy formula.
She called me up, all excited that she had a much happier child. I begged her to continue pumping for a week, just in case her child developed intolerance to the soy. (She and her lactation consultant are thanking me now.) I knew she couldn't afford a hypo-allergenic formula, so I tried to warn her. Sure enough, within a few days, her baby was breaking out, projectile vomiting, not sleeping, etc.
So she wanted something her baby could tolerate until she could clear all the milk and soy out of her system for a day or two. I have very occasionally supplemented my son with Alimentum when I realized too late I had eaten something bad and wanted to pump and dump. When my can of Alimentum ran out, I had gotten Nutramigen thinking it was the same thing. My six-month-old refused to drink it, although he still takes Alimentum just fine. So I gave her the Nutramigen.
Her little one had a horrible, horrible reaction to it. I felt bad that I had given it to her. Her lactation consultant and I got out heads together and wondered if it wasn't the corn in the Nutramigen. My friend breastfed throughout the day, but her baby was still having really bad issues, and she wanted to give her something so they could get some sleep that night. I researched and found that Alimentum Ready-to-Feed is the only formula she could buy at any local store that wouldn't contain corn. She gave it to her daughter, and her daughter was again a good baby.
So she was going to do a day of complete corn, milk, and soy products elimination diet to try to remove the worst of it from her diet, and was going to see how breastfeeding went today. And of course, elimination and trial are the only ways she's going to figure out the culprits. I guess my question is whether or not she's going to have more foods to eliminate. Don't corn and wheat intolerances often go together? Could it possibly only be milk and corn (judging that she was so much better with the soy for a few days)? Or, is what I'm guessing likely, that she has milk, soy, corn, and possibly even a few others?
I know you all can't tell me for sure, but I'm desperate to help this mom continue breastfeeding, and I'm afraid if she has to eliminate too much she's going to give up and somehow find a way to afford the formula. She was already panicking about the whole milk-free diet, although I think she's accepted it now.
Since my son is MSPI, I think I see that behind every bush. I was hoping that wouldn't be the case with my friend when her infant started having issues with her infant born in January. Long story short, she insisted that she couldn't live without cow's milk and didn't think she could do the diet. She was determined to try soy formula.
She called me up, all excited that she had a much happier child. I begged her to continue pumping for a week, just in case her child developed intolerance to the soy. (She and her lactation consultant are thanking me now.) I knew she couldn't afford a hypo-allergenic formula, so I tried to warn her. Sure enough, within a few days, her baby was breaking out, projectile vomiting, not sleeping, etc.
So she wanted something her baby could tolerate until she could clear all the milk and soy out of her system for a day or two. I have very occasionally supplemented my son with Alimentum when I realized too late I had eaten something bad and wanted to pump and dump. When my can of Alimentum ran out, I had gotten Nutramigen thinking it was the same thing. My six-month-old refused to drink it, although he still takes Alimentum just fine. So I gave her the Nutramigen.
Her little one had a horrible, horrible reaction to it. I felt bad that I had given it to her. Her lactation consultant and I got out heads together and wondered if it wasn't the corn in the Nutramigen. My friend breastfed throughout the day, but her baby was still having really bad issues, and she wanted to give her something so they could get some sleep that night. I researched and found that Alimentum Ready-to-Feed is the only formula she could buy at any local store that wouldn't contain corn. She gave it to her daughter, and her daughter was again a good baby.
So she was going to do a day of complete corn, milk, and soy products elimination diet to try to remove the worst of it from her diet, and was going to see how breastfeeding went today. And of course, elimination and trial are the only ways she's going to figure out the culprits. I guess my question is whether or not she's going to have more foods to eliminate. Don't corn and wheat intolerances often go together? Could it possibly only be milk and corn (judging that she was so much better with the soy for a few days)? Or, is what I'm guessing likely, that she has milk, soy, corn, and possibly even a few others?
I know you all can't tell me for sure, but I'm desperate to help this mom continue breastfeeding, and I'm afraid if she has to eliminate too much she's going to give up and somehow find a way to afford the formula. She was already panicking about the whole milk-free diet, although I think she's accepted it now.
Don't know what I would have done without it when I was searching for foods I could eat and recipes I could make.
