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[Anonymous]

I’m Madeline and I have a son named Roman who was born on 2/7/13. He is exclusively breast-fed. His pediatrician said she thought he had silent reflux and prescribed him Zantac syrup At around 15 weeks old. It works for about a week and then stopped. She also prescribed him Prevacid solutabs, but he had a pretty bad reaction to them. I came up with the idea that he possibly has MSPI because he had green explosive mucousy poops, And was constantly fussy and seemed very uncomfortable. I decided to do the elimination diet two weeks ago and I also started block feeding just in case I had an oversupply issue. He seems to be getting better every day thankfully. It has been a very frustrating past month and I have thought about giving up breast-feeding several times. But for me I feel like it is the best thing I could do for my son, so I’m going to keep trying. These forums have helped tremendously.

[hellbennt]

welcome! So glad you found us!

So: please share your elimination diet & how it’s been going, how it’s working, how you’ve been figuring/are figuring it out.

Use the active topic button, located in the upper right-hand corner of this page. Go back to yesterday, last week, etc. There’s a lot of info to help you (tons of links on those posts).

Is your baby in pain? Shrieking.? Yowling?

How are poops?

Gas?

Thanks hellbennt2013-06-23 22:17:05

[Anonymous]

He started getting super fussy about a month and a half or so ago. and thats about when the green mucosy poops started too. i initially cut out all main dairy sources. About a month ago we did the medication trial. Everything in me told me to try to find the source of his troubles in my diet. So I took him off the meds. Then I started reading about MSPI and decided to try the elimination diet. I didnt follow it to a t though. I ate turkey, organic brown and jasmine rice, apples, pears, avocados, sweet and white potatoes and rice milk the first week. Second week I added oatmeal, coconut milk, and butternut squash. I had also tried green beans and peas but he had a reaction to them (fussy, gassy, green poop) This week I decided to just eat foods that didn’t include the top 8 allergens. But yesterday I ate hummus and today he reacted with green poops and was pretty fussy again. So I guess all beans are out. Should I avoid decaf coffee then too?? Ugh. This diet has been tough because I love cheese!!!! But it’s worth it. I’m trying to feed him on just one side each feeding now too. I know it takes a long time for dairy to get out of his system. My poor little guy. He seemed to really be improving until I ate the hummus. I’m hoping to see more improvement this week.

[Anonymous]

WELCOME!!! WOW!!! Congratulations to you for being an awesome mommy! I truly do admire you for sticking with nursing and doing the TED. I got so frustrated and discouraged with nursing, cutting out dairy and soy, lack of sleep, and screaming, barfing baby… that I only nursed my oldest till he was 12 weeks old and my second child till he was 8 weeks old. 🙁

In the past couple of years I have done a lot of reading and research on the ins and outs of reflux and MSPI. With the knowledge that I now have… I highly recommend everyone to be stronger than I was, and stick it out with diet change. I had never even heard of the TED back then but know now that I should’ve done that. I felt so alone and knew of no other babies that suffered like mine. Few of my friends understood how I felt or what I was going through much less had any advice. I didn’t have Internet then or else I would’ve had lots more support and help.

So, today… although my boys have very little digestive problems, it is a huge desire of mine to do everything I can to help others that have struggling babies.

I know that diet change makes it so that your milk doesn’t have all those offending foods in it that are so hard to break down. But along with that to make your milk even easier for your baby to digest… you might want to consider is adding in a supplement of probiotics and digestive enzymes to your diet.

Probiotics are the good live bacteria that coat and protect our entire digestive tract. It takes most babies up to 3-6 months for their bodies to fully build up their probiotics. But for a reflux baby it can take much longer as excess acid kills probiotics. When there is not enough of this protective coating then the esophagus and intestines can become rubbed raw and painful.

Digestive enzymes are vital to being able to properly break down food. All foods have digestive enzymes in them to aid in digestion but when a food is cooked or processed then the enzymes are killed. If a nursing mother eats a diet of mostly cooked or processed foods then it can make it so her milk is hard for the baby to break down and digest. Our pancreas make digestive enzymes but they were not meant to have make so much as to compensate for our diets today of mostly cooked and processed foods. This is especially hard on a baby because their pancreases are just learning to function and often times they aren’t built up or strong enough to produce much volume of digestive enzymes.

So if a nursing mom adds in probiotics and enzymes to her diet then the enzymes can make it so her milk is much more broken down and easier for baby to digest and the probioics will pass through her milk to the baby and help build up his supply.

Your milk that is broken down and easy to digest is much better for your baby than any formula that is “easy to digest” and has the proteins extensively broken down. 🙂

A supplement of probiotics and digestive enzymes has made a HUGE difference for my children and helped them more than meds ever did. And my sons were on Prevacid from shortly after birth till they were ages 1 and 3 years old. My older one took 15mg a day and my second son was taking 30mg a day by the time he was 6 months old. 🙁

Keep up the good work and I hope that your little one continues to improve daily!! 🙂

[hellbennt]

it’s hard to know what’s what. it might not be all beans – not sure what family chick peas are? I know green beans are legumes, as are soy beans…ok, here’s a list of legumes- it does look like most beans are legumes…http://www.life123.com/food/sides/beans/list-of-legumes.shtml

check ingredients for hidden milk & soy…

the coffee bean is not a legume, so you might be safe w/ one cup of decaf a day…

Pinto beans, Navy beans and French green beans are all varieties of the same species (albeit that green beans are the immature pods)

what you eat takes about 3hrs to get to your milk. so, write down what you eat and what time, then notice the reaction AFTER the feed that comes 3hrs and later from when you ate whatever it is you ate…that’s why limited food is good for a bit, so you get to baseline, knowing what you CAN eat and then you add a food in at a time…hey, if your method is working for you …

best EXPLANATION OF FOOD ALLERGIES/INTOLERANCES and their RELATION TO REFLUX that I have found, to date: 2nd post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&PN=2

THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT:

Erin’s sticky: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12948&PID=105126#105126

More Erin: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13175&PID=106395#106395

Erin post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13576

Great anne post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9242

More recent post – TED and success also using probiotics

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15293&PN=1

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