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Offline Sam'smum

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« on: April 08, 2008, 19:08:05 pm »
Im writing this on behalf of my niece. My dd has a cows milk intolerance and is Nutramigen and has been great on that.  My niece has a 3 month old baby. From very early she was showing symptoms of reflux also a bad skin rash, fussing at her bottle. She was put on soya formula. The rash cleared up quickly and she was a lot better so she suspected the reflux may have been caused by a cmi like my DD.  Anyway she is now having problems again and I suspect she is now developing a reaction to soya which I believe is why soya formula isnt recommended.  She has had a bad episode of diarhorea. A stool sample has shown nothing in the way of a bug. She is refusing feeds again. She has lost some weight.  She is now getting blood in her stools.  Her GP is rubbish so when she told me about blood in the stools I told her to take her to A&E. She has done that and they have basically told her its nothing.  She is 13lbs and a big baby but not even taking 4oz bottles, losing weight, rash improved after coming off cows milk formula, diarhorea now blood. Surely this points to an intolerance. What can my niece do to get someone to listen to her? She has PND and this is making things so much worse.  Can anyone give any advice.

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Re: Help
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2008, 07:14:38 am »
hi.
aprox 50% of milk intollerant babies are soy intollerant too.
i would get her to keep a diary,quantities of milk and behaviour.
i would urge your niece to go to her gp and be referred to a paediatrician.the paed will be able to prescribe another formula.huge hugs....jenny
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2008, 18:29:12 pm »
I completely agree with Jenny. Your niece needs to get the GP to listen and refer her dd to a specialist or at least a consultant paediatrician who's interest is allergies/intollerances and reflux if possible. Please tell your niece to be persistant even if it means ringing the surgery everyday or making an appointment with GP and refusing to leave until something is done.

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