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Lactose Intolerance
Hi,
My lo is 5 weeks old and has reflux. She has been getting gaviscon for a few weeks now and this seems to help but she cries after taking the gaviscon and has a good old wriggle. Since about 3 weeks old she has also been screaming the house down at night and seems to be in immense pain with her tummy. She is generally a windy baby and needs burped after each feed. She is on infacol for this. When I breastfeed her, you can hear her tummy making noises when the milk hits it and also later after feeding you hear/ feel her tummy digesting it. Then, when it comes to her emptying her bowels you hear her wind and also explosive bursts of poo. Realise that this is the signs for colic so decided to try and find out what can be causing her this pain and upset.
Cut out dairy from my diet on wednesday and this helped up until yesterday when she started the same thing but during the day. She is now sleeping ok at night. The hv thinks that it could be an allergy to cows milk which I am passing on through my milk or a lactose intolerance. She doesn't seem to swallow wind when feeding just wondered if anyone else has experience of their child having this. Just feel that something is causing this and annoyed that it seems to be classed as just colic.
Really want to find a cause for it as upsetting to see her in pain.
My lo is 5 weeks old and has reflux. She has been getting gaviscon for a few weeks now and this seems to help but she cries after taking the gaviscon and has a good old wriggle. Since about 3 weeks old she has also been screaming the house down at night and seems to be in immense pain with her tummy. She is generally a windy baby and needs burped after each feed. She is on infacol for this. When I breastfeed her, you can hear her tummy making noises when the milk hits it and also later after feeding you hear/ feel her tummy digesting it. Then, when it comes to her emptying her bowels you hear her wind and also explosive bursts of poo. Realise that this is the signs for colic so decided to try and find out what can be causing her this pain and upset.
Cut out dairy from my diet on wednesday and this helped up until yesterday when she started the same thing but during the day. She is now sleeping ok at night. The hv thinks that it could be an allergy to cows milk which I am passing on through my milk or a lactose intolerance. She doesn't seem to swallow wind when feeding just wondered if anyone else has experience of their child having this. Just feel that something is causing this and annoyed that it seems to be classed as just colic.
Really want to find a cause for it as upsetting to see her in pain.
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i have been told by my hv and chiropractor that infacol has been proven in research to be ineffective. try colief, it helps break down lactose. its ??10 but worth it if it helps. i've not tried it yet because i want to see if taking my lo to the chiropractor helps first.
i totally understand what you mean about people saying they 'just have colic'. it is a nightmare. i could spend and hour burping finnley and he'd still be screaming. things have got to the point now where i'm debating trying formula to see if it'll make his tummy less sore and help him (and me!) sleep for a little longer.
my chiropractor gave me one tip. lie baby on your lap when she's settled. imagine her belly button is the centre of a clock. massage her belly, quite hard, in a circular motion 3 times round at 12, 3, 6 and 9 'o'clock. go round 3 times. try and do it twice a day. i find this helps finn to poo and it seems to help him settle. i hope i make sense!
all the best of luck and let me know how your getting on. amanda x
If doc gives me any new stuff/info i'll let you know.
Bought some lactase enzimes and trying that now (like colief but you can place drops on babies tongue before you breast feed). Hoping this does something as Ella is now overfeeding for comfort and this is making her reflux worse. Tried her with a dummy but only worked for 10mins.
Not sure what else to do. Feel like just putting her on formula to see if that does anything as sure its my milk causing all this. Just feel useless and like crying at moment.
Thanks for the advice - cut all dairy now and affecting my ibs but persevering no less. Just wish the hv and docs could be more helpful.
Amanda - how is the osteopath working? You tried colief yet?
Laura
xx
i felt (and still do at times) that its my milk making him so unsettled but everyone assures me that this isn't the case. i hope the drops you have got help ella. let me know what there called as i'd like to try them perhaps. i haven't tried the colief due to the whole having to mix it with milk thing, i really don't want finnley to have formula nor do have the time/energy to express any more than i do already (i have 3 other children).
i think that rather than our babies having a lactose intolerance, its more that their digestive systems are a bit immature and are unable to break down the lactose. just as the gastric reflux is just due to a immature spyncter (?sp!) in the stomach which doesn't close properly causing the acid to bubble back up. i am sure and have been told by many people that our babies will grow out of these problems....its just a matter of time (how frustrating is it when people say that to you!)
i hope you find the oseopathy helpful. my chiropractor told me it could take a few sessions to see any difference and it was after the 2nd treatment that finn seemed to respond.
anyway, try not to beat yourself up over all this. you are doing everything in your power for ella and you can't do any more. take care and let me know how you are getting on. amanda x
Had a hell of a day of crying yesterday so much so that my oh gave her a bottle of SMA Lactose Free Formula last night. She was up screaming until 2am until I finally managed to settle her after a 2nd bottle and a quick feed from me. The hv thinks that I am overfeeding her as she is looking for comfort from me when she is sore. I understand that now as a few times I have refused to feed her (after a long feed or several small feeds) as I know she will just upset her reflux.
The techniques from the osteopath seem to help settle her sometimes but not always.
Really sure that she is lactose intolerant now as she was a little upset this morning then settled. I put her in her rocker chair and she sat quietly and awake (something I haven't seen her do in weeks) and eventually fell asleep after 5 minutes!!!
Really don't want to give up the breast feeding as I love it and the bond but think that I have to for her own health and my sanity. Have breast fed her this morning but am away to make up some more formula for her for later. Trying the lactase enzime but you have to express and then leave for hours and really can't feed her and express so formula it will have to be just now.
Amanda - How you getting on?
i have now swapped his 1 feed of sma gold a day to aptamil easy digest and touch wood it has worked well, he has slept through the night each time (he has 1 formula feed for his last night feed) ! if you are already doing part formula it may b worth a go.
i know this is an old post but i just found a link to it through google as you have/had exactly the same problem as me with regards to the colic. just wondered if you sorted it out cos at the moment i feel lijke it will never go away and i too am convinced it's to do with breast milk...just don't want to quit bf, especially if it's not the cause.
if you get this message let me know how you got on and if you got rid of the colic how you did it.-i'm sick of being told it will pass and feel like no one is taking me seriously.:\?
thanks
xxx
shes on formula milk and tried changing her milk from cow and gate to sma, didn't work at all.
i hope everything turns ok for you xx