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I am going to post this on the allergy board as well. I really need some opinions on this and an idea of where to start(again).
Just to re-cap, ds is 4 months old-had blood in his stools from about 8 weeks on-just mild streaks. After 4 weeks dairy/soy/egg/nut/treenut free, they cleared. I recently got diagnosed with diverticulitis after a nasty attack. Now this just proves to me even more that ds's issues are related to mine. I was/am on Augmentin-875mg 2x per day. Ds started acting like he was having awful stomach cramps at night so I cut my dose in half. Then yesterday, he had a very bloody stool. This is the first time in weeks that he has had any blood in his stool. He is acting like he was when I was eating dairy(very obvious stomach cramps during the night). I took him to a ped GI last week and had his stool double checked and it was 100% negetive for blood, so this only appeared after my antibiotic use. The GI also told me to add back in eggs definitely and add back soy. He mentioned that wheat NEVER causes this. The only other possible suspect here is that I ate some cookies that didn't list any dairy in the ingredients. The allergy statement just said:this product contains wheat. BUT-on the front of the package there was the kosher markings-U Dairy. I looked it up on the kosher site and it says that this indicated the presence of dairy or that the product was manufactured on equipment that also processed dairy. I didn't think this sort of contamination would produce such a reaction in a breastfeeding infant. Right now we are both on probiotics, and I am taking a pancreatic enzyme(Pancreatin by Kal).
On a side note, I was SO impressed with the ped GI. He told me that he would NEVER recommend that I stop breastfeeding and that if worse came to worse and his stool continued to be bloody that he would just prescibe enzymes for me(which I told him I already had). At least he was supportive.
Anyway, any help or opinions would be greatly appreciated as always. I was also worried that the antiobiotic just really effected his gut flora and that is why he was bleeding OR that he is now having some yeast issues. I should also add that stomach cramping at night is his only symptom(aside from the blood). He has no rashes, excema, dry skin, he is not colicky in the least, usually sleeps wonderfully, takes long naps, isn't irritable, and has normal yellow, non-mucousy poops.
Thanks!!
I am going to post this on the allergy board as well. I really need some opinions on this and an idea of where to start(again).
Just to re-cap, ds is 4 months old-had blood in his stools from about 8 weeks on-just mild streaks. After 4 weeks dairy/soy/egg/nut/treenut free, they cleared. I recently got diagnosed with diverticulitis after a nasty attack. Now this just proves to me even more that ds's issues are related to mine. I was/am on Augmentin-875mg 2x per day. Ds started acting like he was having awful stomach cramps at night so I cut my dose in half. Then yesterday, he had a very bloody stool. This is the first time in weeks that he has had any blood in his stool. He is acting like he was when I was eating dairy(very obvious stomach cramps during the night). I took him to a ped GI last week and had his stool double checked and it was 100% negetive for blood, so this only appeared after my antibiotic use. The GI also told me to add back in eggs definitely and add back soy. He mentioned that wheat NEVER causes this. The only other possible suspect here is that I ate some cookies that didn't list any dairy in the ingredients. The allergy statement just said:this product contains wheat. BUT-on the front of the package there was the kosher markings-U Dairy. I looked it up on the kosher site and it says that this indicated the presence of dairy or that the product was manufactured on equipment that also processed dairy. I didn't think this sort of contamination would produce such a reaction in a breastfeeding infant. Right now we are both on probiotics, and I am taking a pancreatic enzyme(Pancreatin by Kal).
On a side note, I was SO impressed with the ped GI. He told me that he would NEVER recommend that I stop breastfeeding and that if worse came to worse and his stool continued to be bloody that he would just prescibe enzymes for me(which I told him I already had). At least he was supportive.
Anyway, any help or opinions would be greatly appreciated as always. I was also worried that the antiobiotic just really effected his gut flora and that is why he was bleeding OR that he is now having some yeast issues. I should also add that stomach cramping at night is his only symptom(aside from the blood). He has no rashes, excema, dry skin, he is not colicky in the least, usually sleeps wonderfully, takes long naps, isn't irritable, and has normal yellow, non-mucousy poops.
Thanks!!
I hope you get it all straightened out! I dind't get Liam straightened out until he was 4 mos old, after finally cutting out wheat. It took him 3-5 days to react to wheat (reacted w/ mucousy diarrhea!) so I kept thinking it must be something else after all that time. But talking to other moms w/ nursing babies allergic to wheat, that's very common. Wheat typically takes a few days to cause the mucous and diarrhea.
: I know it was from that though.
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Culturelle studies as well as the ones I cite for the bifidobacterium hypothesis.
