Explosive poo warning / long story but need some help!

My son had really bad silent reflux and reflux he would scream after each bottle and drink so much more than he should I imagine to soothe his throat. We changed formula which helped with his poos, once a day (they were perfect 😂) however did not help with his silent reflux so changed to the anti reflux version this helped a tad however gave him a tummy ache and had explosive diarrhoea poos about 7 times a day and thought that the thickening agent didn’t agree with him. He also started getting a rash on his cheek so behind his eyes, I thought it was baby ache but he is 10 weeks plus it would just come and go, there is no pattern to it, sometimes would pop up after a bottle/ during or not at all. I contacted the doctor or put him on gaviscon which he threw up, hated the taste and become constipated. I spoke to the doctor again and they put him on pepti 1, which he had been on a week, he also had his tongue tie cut on Monday and jabs on Tuesday. His silent reflux is so so so much better his still chucks up a little but no rolling around in pain. He still gets a rash but I’ve just given him a bottle and is disappeared but was there most of the morning. My lo has just done a poo finally (2days) he didn’t struggle with it but oh my gosh it’s disgusting! I have so many questions I don’t know if this is CMPA or a lot of the symptoms was due to his reflux? Is the rash baby acne or CMPA? Is this poo normal on pepti 1? Obviously this week he has had his jabs including the rotavirus would that do this to his poos. Sorry it’s long but any help would be appreciated. I’ve put a pic or poos and rash in comments

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It's highly likely his reflux is actually to do with cmpa... Give the pepti 1 some time, it can take weeks for the guy to heal, so if you think his other symptoms have improved (the reflux, rash and discomfort) then definitely stick at it and hopefully poops will improve in a few weeks too.

We were on pepti1 for a while and almost all symptoms went other than reflux, cradle cap and explosive poos but she seemed happy so we didn’t think much of it. Eventually we were changed to AA formula as she wasn’t gaining weight and other than some reflux issues (physical rather than symptom of cmpa) everything has cleared so far 🤞🏻 we also had a really bad reaction gut wise to the rottovirus vaccine. it’s tough as you need to give it time to work but stick in there, if he gets worse or isn’t improving/clear of symptoms by 4-6 weeks then I’d say you may need to trial another milk. Feel free to message me if you want any advice/help/to chat about it!

Also just seen you’re using carobel, I’ve avoided that as I’ve seen a few people say their little one reacted on that too as it’s linked somehow with soya, may not be that but worth looking into maybe?

@Lucy oh I stopped carabol last weekend I found out the it’s the same thickening agent is it was in the AR formula that was going through him

I’d definitely try another brand of CMPA milk! I had this similar experience was out in nutramigen and she was either constipated or really explosive poos got changed to pepti syneo and it’s got something in to help heal the gut, we’ve had absolutely no issues whatsoever with this xx

Green is normal for allergy formulas but the consistency is diarrhoea and it’s seedy and stringy. Whilst it can take up to 6 weeks for allergy to leave the body, there should be improvements pretty quickly. Can you go back to the doctor and ask for a extensively hydrolysed formula, such as nutramigen (it still contains dairy protein, it’s just more broken down for tolerance), the next step would be an amino acid totally free from formula such as Alfamino.

Just come on here to see about explosive dark green poo…. My son has cmpa was told this at 4 weeks he’s now 12 weeks, although dr now thinks it could be a milk allergy all together as pepti 1 only slightly improved his condition so now on neocate and my sons done a poo like in your photo and it’s never been this colour before just always watery, tho he had his second lot of injections yesterday so not sure if that’s not helped.

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