CMPA reaction to nutramigen formula

My baby is 4 weeks old been on nutramigen since a few days old due to mucus & blood in his dirty nappies. Suspected CMPA after being sent to the hospital. However I’m unsure if he’s now having a delayed reaction to the milk. since joining a CMPA group and learning a bit more about it all I think this milk might not be suiting him. Very frequent nappies during & after bottles Poo can vary between seedy looking, paste and with mucus being more regular the last few days/ week Bringing up clear liquid/ milk at times Unsettled with tummy/ wind arching back was worse in evenings but seems to be happening during the day over the last couple of days. Hiccups often after bottles Congested sounding sometimes Coughing when drinking milk not sure if that from it being a thinner consistency We do have a GP appointment this week but just wanted some more advice in the meantime. Thanks ☺️ Any adivice would be very appreciated

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With nutramigin its 10% so if baby has a full allergy symptoms will come bavk 10-14 days after starting so take baby back to gp or hospital explain and they will probs put on the next level up milk iv just been through it with my little one xxx

I would sudgest aswell if they put him on a diff milk to ask for thickner my baby was put onto alphamino after and it was way to thin she was bringing up the whole bottle so had to get her thickner and she drinks it fine now xxx

Thankyou it all seems like trial and error. Hope we find something that suitable for him soon he has such a sore bottom too 😭 xxx

@Abbie my little girl was exactly like that it really is trial and error and is so heartbreaking when there so little going through so much but fingers crossed they will get it sorted for him🤞xxxx

Would definitely say to try them on a different milk! My LO is on aptamil pepti so not sure how that compares to the nutramigin but there are definitely different options out there

@Lucy Thankyou. Is that the first milk your little one has been tried on? I’m really hoping we don’t have to keep trying lots of different things, since doing research on different groups it all seems so complex 🤯 xx

We had the same. Was put on pepti which improved the symptoms then they started to get worse again. We’re now ok on Pureamino

@Lucy They're on the same level with both being extensively hydrolysed formulas. Only difference being that Pepti is whey-based and Nutramigen is casein-based in terms of the milk protein they contain. Usually you would try one of each before moving on to an amino-acid formula, which is completely dairy-free. Unless baby reacted to breast milk as well as it's on a similar level as EHF milks for the amount of milk protein. If that's the case then you would usually try one EHF formula and then an amino-acid formula or go straight to amino-acid formula

@Lisette I’m assuming alphamino is an amino acid formula my baby was only tried on nutramagin before being put on in any idea why?xx

@evelyn Yes, Alfamino is amino-acid. It might've been severity of the reaction or doctor just trying to be proactive. Had they reacted to breast milk as well? X

@Lisette no she was only ever formula fed she did have a bit on bloody mucus in her poo but only once her symptoms were bad but I wouldn’t say severe maybe it was due to the bloody mucus x

My little girl was initially good on Nutramigen but it stopped working for her. We started on Nutramigen which is casein based then SMA Althera which is whey based and now are on SMA Alfamino which is an amino acid. She is 100x better now than when she was on the other ones

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