Your Thoughts on This?

[Anonymous]

So Heather has been having a virus of sorts. Her eating has been poor and this has kind of clouded the reflux issue/MSPI possibility.

Anyway, I decided to try to restrict milk intake since she’s been sick rather than eliminate entirely. So she hasn’t had a bottle of straight milk since this past weekend. She has had butter, things cooked using milk, etc.

So tonight, she woke up and has been feeling better. We gave her a bottle of watered down straight milk. After 5oz she sat upright, coughed a bit and then projectile vomited all of it right up.

Does this sound like a MSPI reaction or just reflux in general? I am wondering if the reflux issue is only when she uses a bottle too.

This is so perplexing and confusing and frustrating.

[Anonymous]

I think if it is a virus, Milk can churn your stomach, so I would not necessarily think MSPI, or an issue like that yet.

I can not stand milk or milk products at all when my stomach is upset.

Hopefully that will be all that it is. How long has the virus been going on? How old is Heather now?

Hang in there!

Ann Marie

[Anonymous]

I think it will be hard to be sure until she’s been recovered from the virus for a while. I agree with Ann Marie; dairy can be very unsettling to the stomach during and right after a stomach virus. Maybe wait until you’re sure the virus is gone and then give it a few days or even a week and try again.

[Anonymous]

I just had a thought too.. sometimes a stomach virus can clear the body of the good bacteria too, so that’s why it can be difficult to digest milk. Have you tried some probiotics? There are milk free versions too. My son gets them every day, and I really have noticed that it seems to help him digest foods better.

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