Pooping on SMA Alfamino

You could ask to try Nutramigen? We have got in super well with it. But all the advice we’ve had was to give it two weeks when changing formula, to give them time to get everything out x

That’s so weird. My little one is on Similac Alimentum (dairy allergy) and she poops like 1-3 times a day. Some times she skips a day and poops.

she wouldn’t drink it. Went on full milk strike 😅 nutramigen, pepti 1 and sma althera all contain milk proteins still and she’s had them all hence the change to alfamino which is amino acid based with no cows milk protein so I was really hoping it would work! She is more settled and has less symptoms it’s just the pooping which is still the problem 😞

yeah everything online says they should poop less but not this girl 😩
My health visitor did put in a referral to the dietitian because she had already tried 3 other types but they rejected it and said to try this instead!
It’s stressing me out because she already dropped from 95th to below 50th percentiles and I don’t know what else to do 🤷🏼‍♀️
On regular formula she was pooping 1-2 times a day but they were very mucousy hence thinking allergy but now I just don’t know

we were put on it to help constipation but it was gradually getting more and more everyday, on average 3 a day but sometimes 5 and they started getting mucusy. At that point we were told to go back to a comfort milk and wean early, but the other suggestion before that was going to be to try nutramigen. Dietician said they are all similar but just about finding the one that your baby gets on best with x

I’m sorry to hear this Lauryn. We were also recommended that we could use cow and gate carobel as a thickener. This was for reflux though not gas or poop? I guess infacol or colief wouldn’t help here? Has she got gastroenteritis and it’s just bad timing?

yeah so nutramigen etc all contains cows milk protein but slightly different ones and then alfamino is amino acid based so no cows milk protein at all but she has never been constipated it has just always been loose multiple times a day with mucous 😞 she is 6 months at the end of the month anyway but she still needs a suitable milk and I’m worried about her poor belly when we can’t even get this right 😅

we already use carobel to thicken it and she has a version of colief already too 😞 I don’t think she has gastroenteritis because this has been the same since she was on althera so over a month now 😞

Mines the same been on Alfamino about 7 days and still having 5/6ish poos a day I was told to give it 2 to 4 weeks for her to get the remaining cows milk protein out of her system from Althera x

Now, what Phoebe said makes sense. That it will be at least 4-6 weeks for dairy to clear out of her system. You would see a difference by then.

yeah this is what I’m thinking it’s just difficult to know what to do for the best isn’t it? 😞