Probiotics or formula switch? HELP!!!

[Anonymous]

ok back again with more questions thank goodness this website exsist and you wonderful people are on here to help.

my son who is 7 weeks old has milk protein allergy (wheeze, reflux, blood &mucus stool, gassy, cranky) but he is thriving and gaining quite a bit of weight. was born 7lb 8 oz at one month he was at 10lb 9oz. We have had him on nutramigen since 2 weeks of age. Some of the symptoms have subsided but we are still getting an occ. blood & mucus stool, gas & cranky and lots of crying unless he is being held and grunting . 2 weeks ago he had gross bood in his stool and doc sent it out for testing. the results negative on the cultures for infection or bacteria. So she believes we should switch formulas she recommened going to an amino based formula neocate or nutramigan AA. Both are so expensive. But I read that probiotics may help so last night i ordered Ther-biotics infant formula. And asked his doc if we could try this 1st before going to the amino based formula. Has anyone given their child probiotics and seen an improvment in their child regarding the symptoms of mspi? If we do have to switch to neocate or nutramigen AA which one would you recommend? How soon after starting probiotics or switching formula should I see an improvment in him? I guess I am at my wits end on switching him because he seems so content and fine then he will just start screaming and crying (real tears rolling down his cheeks. I feel a little lost and not real sure about my decisions and my husband just tells me do what I feel is best but sometimes I just don’t know what is best. So please can someone help me out with this.

My 2 yr old daughter also had MSPI and had to go on nutramigen but that seemed to work well for her and she now consumes milk. I also have a milk intolrence. I guess I might have passed it to them.

Just wanted to add that he also always seems sleepy. I know that’s not a bad thing but could it be because he is pain and just wants to sleep or am I reading into things. I guess also my daughter never was a good sleeper during the day and I was used to a baby that was up all day long mostly. I guess I don’t have a good comparison.

momof2md2008-12-02 14:18:02

[Anonymous]

I have had my son on Probiotics since he was about 5 months old. He was on Nutramigen as well and his only symptom that we were aware of was mucous. I say that b/c we never did a hemocult for blood. We stayed on nutramigen and even with probiotics we still had mucous just not as much. I don’t think it will stop the microscopic blood but I don’t know for 100% sure. I will say that I would probably go with Neocate/Elecare over the Nutramigen AA but only b/c they have been around longer. I am always a bit weary of new formulas until they have been around for a bit. HTH.

[hellbennt]

maybe start the probiotics, give them a good 2 weeks, test the stool again and if there is still blood, then go for the neocate…

[Anonymous]

I will chime in to say that from what I’ve read, it can take several weeks for offending proteins to clear the system…

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