Any Babies with Milk Protein Allergies?

M.: My son who is now 20months has FPIES (Food Protein Induced Entercolits Syndrome) and MFPI (Muliple Food Protein Intolerance). Another mom and I just partnered with Partnerships 4cures.org and our website thepicfoundation.org should be up and running here in the next week or so. There are some great articles on the differences between intolerance and allergy. When feeding a child who has intolerances or allergies the best advice is to wait till they are atleast 6months to allow their bellies and systems to mature a little more. Both intolerance and allergies have reactions besides just blood in the stool (which not all the time can you tell if there is blood). Right now there isn't a true testing for intolerances as there is fod food allergies. CHOPS Dr. Spergal is has been working on the Patch Testing to help identify things, and currently it has worked for FPIES cases. It is probably best to start a food journal for your child. This way you will know what the reactions are and what the food was that caused it. Just know that sometimes reactions can take up to 22hrs to show. Some kids have delayed reactions and some can only tolerate a little bit at a time. It is alot to take in when given the diagnosis but things do get better and easier. Most kids with MSPI are likely to outgrow this between 1 and 2 years. Hang in there!

D. B.

yea my baby has a milk and food protein allergie and she jested postive for bood in her stool sice she was born in tell about a mounth old and we tryed a lots of diffeant kinds of milk and we finley found one cold neocate and thats the only one she could take and hold down with out gitting sick.

My son was breast fed and supplemented with bottle due to low milk production. He started getting constipated, we would have to do belly rubs, moving legs and rectal stim with thermometer to get him to go - the constipation continued and then he got blood in his stools. We switched to Nutramigen Formula and eventually went to Alimentum (hypo allerg formula). We did see an allergist and he went through the scratch test - ironically everything came back negative (which they say children do not devlop allergies until three - so I was confused about the whole process) We stayed on Alimentum until he was 1 and we did introduce yogurt at around 9 months - never had an issue with milk - hopefully this helps. Good luck

My daughter had a milk protein allergy and had lots of frank blood in her stool for months until we got all the milk out of her system. I was breastfeeding, so I had to eliminate all milk products from my diet (and there is milk or milk derivitives in lots of foods that you wouldn't even think of). She did grow out of it at around seven months of age. Your doctor can probably give you a diet plan so that you can very slowly introduce new foods to determine what her tolerance level is. Good luck--most babies do outgrow this.

My first son did! At the time I was a vegaterian, eating lots of dairy and soley breastfeeding. My son was so miserable, gassy, bloated, just miserable!!! I never tested him for the allergy. I did a reverse testing. I stopped eating ALL diary and it was so hard!!! But within 24 hrs of me not eating dairy, I had a complete different baby. And every time I cheated and had just a little bit of dairy, he would be miserable again. It wasn't hard feeding him food because baby food is pretty simply and basic. I did check lables when we went into people food, I looked for whey and other like ingredients. But honestly, it was good, because it kept his diet pretty healthy and clean and it wasn't hard at all. When it came time to wean him at around 15 months, he still could not do diary, so we went to soy formula instead of milk. We would try ever once in a while to see his he could handle dairy. When he was about 2 yrs old, he didn't have any symptoms and now eats all the dairy he wants. For us, it really wasn't a big deal and wasn't that hard. He did grow out of it too. Good Luck!

my daughter has been diagnosed with a milk intolerance and reflux which the doctors are sure she has now out grown it. this all happened when she was a month old and couldn't hold any food in the reflux made her vomit and the milk protein gave her direhea so now she is 8 months old she is still on the special formula but can eat all the baby food and what not. You probally should be very carefull and only indroduce one thing at a time. they usually don't diagnose a true allergy until they are two years old.