Thanks for the info about the kids with food allergies website. Very helpful.
My GP isn't too helpful with her drinking. She has dropped below 3 percentile though at the moment so has told us to get as much milk into her as we can. We have seen a private paediatrician in the past but aren't able to go back. We have been referred to a public paediatrician and should get an appointment early in the New Year. Will talk to them about milk intake then.
Hi there. So what exact problems are you having from her? Does she have any rashes, constipation, diaherra, extreme fussiness, screaming spells, not sleeping??
She sleeps fine, and not generally fussy at all. She doesn't scream. She doesn't get rashes, has never been constipated but has had two bouts of gastro vomiting-diarrhoea in the past month. Her stools are quite loose normally with occasionally a firmer one. She has a dirty nappy about 75% of the time when we change her.
Drinking has always been a problem. She slept through the night from early on because I think she would just rather not have to drink. She can go for days with only drinking only small amounts and these episodes happen relatively frequently - every few weeks or so and I can't find a correlation for why. Drinking less doesn't seem to bother her - we just have to force her to drink.
The best period we had was when I eliminated dairy, eggs and peanuts from my diet from 3.5 months until we started solids at 6 months. She drank pretty well during this time. Since solids we have had more often. I wasn't always sure if I had made a mistake with my diet, if she was feeding more efficiently than I though etc..... but since she has been fully formula fed (Neocate - hyperallergenic formula) and still having these episodes occasionally, makes me think it is related to the solids she's eating. I have always kept a food diary though and I don't see any pattern.
Interestingly, we had one of these drinking low volume times last week for 7 days. She has been drinking really well (better than ever before) for the past 3 days.
She has had some kind of nappy rash for most of the time she has been on solids - it comes and goes and apart from carrots and apples which I'm pretty sure caused the blisters she got, I haven't been able to relate the blisters she gets to any other food (I have a food diary).
She still had a bit of a nappy rash yesterday from earlier on in the week but it seemed to be healing quite well. This morning there were 3 huge, bleeding blisters. I just don't get it. I'd at least expect that the low drinking and blisters might coincide.
It has been suggested to me in the past few days that it could be a problem with salicylates. I am starting to look into that. SIGH.
Sorry for the novel!
