Milk allergy/intolerance symptoms...

Following as mine is the same!

My little boy is 12 weeks tomorrow and was diagnosed with CMPA at 4 weeks.

Symptom wise was
- mucous poo
- VERY unsettled
- screamed, slept or fed
- rash on his face
- blood in poo
- horrendous nappy rash

We have been on prescription milk for 2 months (originally EBF) and he’s an entirely different baby.

Doctors weren’t interested in us until they saw blood in his poo. I will say, CMPA is very over diagnosed, that being said, you also don’t need to reach every single symptom. My little boy has consistently put on weight. The only way you will know is by cutting out dairy from your diet and/or going into hydrolysed milk. (Doctors will prescribe if they think there’s more than enough reason to, but you can buy it online although it’s £££). I would say it COULD be CMPA but there’s also loads of other things it ‘could’ be. Perhaps change the formula to a different brand for a few days and see if you see a difference?
There’s also a CMPA group on here where everyone’s super

Useful (lol it cut me off). Also happy for you to message me and ask the million and one questions I had at the time I was really struggling xx

I've had two cmpa babies; they both gained weight well whilst having dairy luckily but thrived once we cut our dairy

Their symptoms were:

Very fussy
Not happy being placed on their backs
Terrible sleeper
Constantly feeding for comfort (making everything worse)
Muscosy poop
Forceful reflux
Projectile sickness
Facial and chest rash which just for worse

Ah thank you for this 😊 He seems to have most of the symptoms except blood in poop or a rash...

I'm going to try and cut out dairy and see if it makes a difference!

I’ve had two CMPA babies. For mine along with the digestive issues (mucous poo, bloody poo, reflux, pain, wind, diarrhoea (6-8 poos a day)) they were both inconsolable all day/night - screaming in pain hours on end, sleeping very little and only wanting to be held. Both of mine were gaining weight too but were very unhappy until we switched to a prescription milk.

My little boy (currently 9w) still has reflux, wind and pain pooing but actually settles now. Don’t get me wrong he’s still a goblin at witching ‘hour’ between 530-9 but he’s loads better!

We are currently just waiting to be discharged from hospital with our 4 month old (nearly 5 months) for CMPA we have been given a hydrolysed formula. His symptoms were mucus poo, watery poo, bad nappy rash because of the number of poos he was doing, blood in his poo, being very fussy and crying which he doesn't hardly do, had a red flushed cheek, cough, bit of reflux and sneezing a fair bit.

Since being on this new formula he is a completely changed baby I do think it will help him sleeping of a night too. It's been such a worry but so glad me and my husband went with our gut and got him checked!