Timeline for recovery in bf baby

[Ashley_R]

I recently discovered my ds is allergic to dairy, soy, eggs and tomatoes. Its been about a week since all four have been out of my diet. His body rash disappeared, the eczema is almost gone, bloody streaks are gone from diapers, but poo is still mucousy.  Do I just need to wait it out a little longer or am I missing another allergy?

[tanyalynn]

It seems like mucousy poo can last quite a while, IIRC some people have had it slowly clear up over the course of a couple months.  The other stuff you mentioned cleared up first, but I think it's gut damage that's healing and that just takes time.

A good quality probiotic (obviously w/o your allergens) may help with that process, I'd check out JaneS's WAHM page, she has links to some good probiotics meant specifically for infants.

[Ashley_R]

Thanks, thats what I figured was going on, but I didn't want to be missing an allergy.  Thanks for the suggestion on where to find dairy-free probiotics, I was looking for some, they're on the way and will hopefully start making a difference.

[Blessed_Mom]

How did you hone in on those specific triggers? thanks.

[sosurreal09]

I eliminated nuts as well right in the beginning. That one I never thought to do initially but then I realized that effected her.

Is you're baby vaxed?

We did vax on schedule for a while and a few months after we stopped she didn't seem to have issues anymore except dairy. (just my personal experience)

[scsigrl]

Custom Probiotics have been an amazing find for us! They are free of dairy, soy and egg (all Top 8 and gluten, corn, citrus and banana as well).  Not sure about tomato.  They sent us almost a 6 week supply to try and we are hooked! My DS had NEVER had a normal BM in his 4 years till we started on them!

[Ashley_R]

Originally Posted by Blessed_Mom 

How did you hone in on those specific triggers? thanks.

I found tomato first, he was very fussy and had mucousy stool after I had two very tomatoey meals in a row, I checked out Dr. Sears list of possible irritating foods and tomato was on it, so thats how I figured that one out. The others were very mild reactions at first and I had to eat a lot of the food so I had a hard time deciding, then he got more sensitive to dairy. I cut out dairy soy and egg because thats what his dr suggested.  All of his symptoms disappeared (except mucous), then one day I tried soy and he reacted and same with egg.   At first with the dairy I thought it was a fore/hind milk imbalance until one day I had  cheese for lunch.  Hope this helped sorry if grammar and spelling are bad typed with help of 3yr old and 2 month old