NutrAmigen and diarrhea

Hello fellow mamas, my bub will be 3 months old tomorrow and has had diarrhea every day for the last 3 weeks. His pediatrician isn’t worried about it because he is still having a lot of pee diapers and isn’t too fussy and has no fever or blood in stool. He has been on NutrAmigen for a month and a half because he wasn’t having a good time at all on other formula. He poops like 3 times a day and the other 2 poops are normal but the big one, always one a day, is very watery and green. Any other NutrAmigen or hypoallergenic formula mamas experience this?

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It does make my son's poo super runny but not green, and probably not quite as runny as you describe because his max is twice a day. I would trust your pediatrician though.

You can try an allimentum! Or the highest level of hypoallergenic formula which is amino acid based. I breastfeed and had to supplement bc my daughter was admitted to the hospital for failure to thrive due to vomiting bc of food allergies to dairy, soy, and we are trying to figure out what else. Anyway- we tried nutramigen and it was okay but not helping as much as we needed it to bc it has cow protein but is broken down so it’s easier on the baby to digest. We tried alfamino which is an amino acid based formula and ended up back in the ER due to a terrible reaction she had that caused dehydration. We are now supplementing her with allimentum and it’s okay, not perfect, but the best we have had so far. We will likely end up with her settling on neocate, which is another amino acid based formula that has zero cow protein and zero soy. It is the most hypoallergenic option out there! Her symptoms were consistently vomiting, diarrhea, a rash on her face, neck & poor weight gain.

So with all of that being said… she never had bloody stools even though her allergy is so severe! Every child presents different symptoms and I will also say- even in the hospital when she was admitted there were pediatricians telling us they didn’t believe it was a food allergy. It was confirmed to be one after an X-ray showed swelling of her stomach and small intestine and actually starting to close due to inflammation. The GI specialist confirmed our suspicions of her allergies and even then, the pediatrician still didn’t seem too convinced. Trust your gut! Just make sure not to make any more than one change at once. It’s hard on baby’s belly and you won’t be able to determine what made a difference. Also we were told by GI specialist not to switch formulas too frequently because that alone can cause vomiting/diarrhea & dehydration in sensitive babies who don’t handle the change well, even if it is a good formula that works with their system

I found this that explains what it could be 🤷🏽‍♀️https://www.whattoexpect.com/first-year/health/newborn-poop-color

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