3 month old with severe relux and intolerances

Many people have a really hard time digesting corn or corn products. It isn’t normally a true allergy that would show up on a skin allergy test though. It’s just that corn is one of the most difficult things for the human digestive system to be able to properly break down.

I know of a child that could not tolerate any kinds of formula except Alimentum RTF and also couldn’t tolerate any dairy products.

My oldest son had a lot of bloody stools as a baby too. At the time I didn’t fully understand what caused it other than that I knew he had a lot of pain and reflux. But now 5 years later I have learned a lot and have realized that the blood in the stools was caused because he had no protective lining left on his intestines and the poop was rubbing it raw to the point of bleeding.

There were 3 reasons that my son had so many digestive problems. First he was born c-section, second he was put on antibiotics shortly after birth simply because I had a slight fever during labor :(, and third because he must’ve inherited his poor working pancreas from me.

While a baby is still in the womb, he/she has a sterile digestive system meaning nothing including good or bad bacteria has entered it. As the baby is coming down the birth canal he picks up his first dose of probiotics. Probiotics are the good live bacteria (also referred to as gut flora) that coat, line, and protect the entire digestive tract including the ear, nose, and throat. The second dose and the biggest dose of probiotics the baby will ever receive is from mother’s colostrum.

If a baby is born by c-section and/or is not breast fed they will not receive these probiotics. They will pick up probiotics from physical touch but they will get a slower start and also they kind they will pick up from touch will be a different kind than from the birth canal and the colostrum.

Mother’s type of probiotics that she gives to baby depends on her diet and how well her body is capable of digesting the food she eats. It can also be altered by taking antibiotics.

Antibiotics can not decipher between good and bad bacteria so they kill both. If a mother takes antibiotics while pregnant it will kill and alter her probiotics and up the chance of her baby having digestive problems. If antibiotics are taken while nursing or if they are given directly to babies it will most certainly affect their digestion.

All foods have digestive enzymes in them to aid in breaking down that food into a usable form. When a food is cooked or processed the enzymes in it are killed. Also our pancreas makes enzymes and puts them into the stomach to aid in digestion when we eat foods that are lacking enzymes. But our pancreas was never meant to make enough enzymes for our American diets of mostly cooked and processed foods. So after awhile the pancreas gets tired and slows down on enzyme production.

For some people though it can be inherited to have a pancreas that doesn’t produce enough enzymes. This can sometimes be the reason babies are born with digestive problems.

Proteins are one of the hardest things for a person’s digestive system to break down. So this is often why babies and adults too are diagnosed with a protein intolerance. These problems are rarely the case of being a true allergy because in truth it is just the inability to break down the foods.

When food goes into the upper portion of the stomach, the first thing the stomach does is secrete a little hydrochloric acid (stomach acid). This acid is secreted into the the stomach to activate the enzymes. If there are enzymes in the food and/or enough enzymes from the pancreas there, then all will be well. The stomach will break down the food into a usable form and it will go pass easily into the intestines to be absorbed and used in the body.

But… if the food has no enzymes in it and there isn’t enough enzymes from the pancreas to compensate, then the stomach will excrete a little more acid to try to activate the enzymes. But with little or no enzymes there, the stomach will continue to produce acid. Stomach acid is meant to stay in the stomach, but when there is so much of it, it is forced up the esophagus and down the intestines. This excess acid kills probiotics. And remember that probiotics are the protective coating in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. So when that protective coating is gone it causes irritation, inflamation, burning, pain, and sometimes even bleeding.

So, for my children (and I know of many others too) their digestive problems decreased greatly by taking a probiotic/enzyme supplement called “Digestive Health” from Core Health Products Happy Mom2012-09-19 01:33:53

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