If it's MSPI and I eliminated them should I be see

[Anonymous]

ing less spit up? Or should only the fussiness improve? I’ve been on the Sears elimination diet for 4 days, now is the 2 weeks of his Prevacid also, and his night waking is a little less, and he’s a little happier in the morning. But he still spits up a lot. My theory was if it was the food, wouldn’t the spit up be decreasing? If he continues to spit up, I would think it’s from the immature esophageal spincter right??

[Anonymous]

It can take 2-4 weeks for all the offending proteins to get out of your milk so 4 days isn’t long enough to see a huge change. Cooper has MSPI and was on Nutramigen and still spit like crazy until he was 6 months old and then only recently has it gotten to almost never since he has been standing cruising more. I think sitting can aggrivate it some as then tend to slouch and that can put pressure on their bellies…. I don’t know how old your lo is, but reflux tends to peak between 4-7 months. Give the diet alittle more time to see a change.

[Anonymous]

I made a mistake on it because everyone was saying I would see a difference if it was dairy intolerance after 2 weeks. I gave up dairy while BF’ing for 2 weeks, and no difference.

7 months later we put my son on Zantac and non-dairy/soy formula – the Zantac helped the pain immediately, the removal of dairy didn’t make a difference until about ***3*** weeks later.

That said, MSPI for us manifested as diaper rashes and yeast infections. It probably exacerbated the reflux, but the difference we saw was really in suddenly having yeast infections settle down.

So yes I would definitely say you need to wait for a few weeks before being sure.

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