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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take this with a grain of salt bc everyone’s ped and IBLCs have different advice. My first had a dairy sensitivity - dark green mucous but no specks of blood in his poop. Resolved when cutting dairy from my diet. The pediatrician said many kids get diagnosed with CMPA when in fact they are just more highly sensitive and not necessarily truly allergic. I say this because the protein allergy vs sensitivity matters. He did great on goat’s milk formula (which you can now find way easier with all the imported formulas approved). From what I’ve read it’s similar to an A2 formula and is much gentler on sensitive tummies based on the the type of casein or something like that. People will tell you that kids with CMPA will also be allergic to goats milk protein, but my pediatrician basically said to give it a try before ruling it out. It worked for us, so we never needed to try out alimentium or nutramigen.[/quote]

For what it's worth, cutting dairy out of my diet worked for me with a dairy sensitive baby, but I understand that may not be desirable for everyone.  We had Alimentum RTF as a back up.  But also, as the poster above indicated, it may not be a true allergy.  Many dairy sensitive babies outgrow the intolerance - for my kid as a baby, dairy led to vomiting, blood in poop, etc., but by age 2, my kid could drink cow milk.  Dairy allergies are uncommon (but do happen) - we did allergy testing around age 1, and my kid did not have an allergy.

I also agree that it is worth trying out soy or goat milk formula.  Those are likely cheaper and easier to find, and taste better than Alimentum or Nutramigen, and some dairy sensitive babies do fine on them.[/quote]

I will just add that a protein intolerance to dairy is not uncommon in babies under 1 and is usually what people mean when they say “dairy allergy” at that age. A protein intolerance is actually because some infants cannot process/digest the specific proteins (may not be phrasing this right) in dairy and sometimes soy etc. It can cause blood in stool, mucousy poops, colicky like symptoms but no it isn’t a true ige allergy. Protein intolerances are not uncommon in lindane’s 0-1  and babies usually outgrow it by 1 year old. So what happened with your child is very normal and doesn’t mean they didn’t have the intolerance (I don’t think you were saying that but I’m not sure).

I think this is kind of what you were saying as well, definitely most kids that have this intolerance don’t go on to have an ige dairy allergy though they are usually a little more at risk for other allergies later in life.

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