Constipation, pain crying, gas, colic and goats milk formula

Has anyone seen an improvement in all the above by switching to goats milk formula? Our gp has been beyond useless and we are now in our 8th week of 8 hours plus pain crying daily from her tummy. Lactulose and all colic remedies tried. We’ve used kendamil and aptamil comfort milk only so far.

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Bless you. We had similar problems with our boy. He wasn’t crying as much as your little one though. But all the same symptoms. We tried everything from over the counter like Infacol,dentinox, gripe water etc. the doctor prescribed gaviscon but that made constipation worse. We tried sma comfort formula which didn’t help but then switched to kendamil and use the optibac drops as well now. Things are much better for us. Have you tried the optibac drops? X

We have, she’s been on them since 2 weeks and we haven’t seen any improvement, we are at our wits end with getting no help from the Gp. We don’t know what else to do, cannot cope with seeing her cry in pain for this long everyday for much longer.

I’m on goats milk and my little one is fine xx

Feel your pain as my LO is the same 😔 we’ve been BFing and kendamil, now solely kendamil and just about to switch to an anti reflux milk as potentially silent reflux. Tried gaviscon, infacol, optibac all no good. Gripe water does relieve her discomfort enough to sleep sometimes so maybe try if you haven’t already? My LO also had a strong tongue tie which we had cut privately yesterday. Hope you get to the bottom of it soon xx

Hey, found your old post. My baby is exactly the same. Have you tried switching to goats milk ? Did it help?

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