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January 30, 2008 at 5:29 pm #47827

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Does anyone know of a suggestion to make neocate taste better? I thicken my son’s formula with rice cereal – but he seems to be having trouble with it (breaking out in an eczema rash). I started using this stuff called Simply Thick that his GI Doctor recommended. He doesn’t like the taste of the formula without the rice cereal. I have read about putting vanilla extract in the bottle. Any other suggestions or information about this practice?

Thanks!

January 30, 2008 at 9:02 pm #47848

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I would NOT suggest adding vanilla extract to your baby’s bottles–I believe most vanilla extract has alcohol in it!!

A few questions first–which rice cereal were you using? You need to use BEECHNUT or EARTH’S BEST cereals ONLY. Gerber rice cereal has soy in it, and your little guy on Neocate would have a bad reaction to that and get excema! How long has your son been on just Neocate in his bottles? Is he eating less? How old is he/how much does he weigh? Is he having weight gain problems that a little less formula for a little while could worsen?

When we first stopped thickening my lo’s bottles of Neocate with rice cereal, she did eat less for a little while, but she got over it after a little while.

There are these other flavorings that you can buy which do not contain alcohol–I forget the name right now, but there are threads on it here, just do a little search, and I know someone else here should remember what it’s called. I’ll try to find it. My Pedi recommended against flavoring the formula because Dagney was not having any weight gaining problems, so a little less formula for a little while was ok, and she had just started solids, so was getting other things. Also, the Pedi pointed out that if we started sweetening at that point (she was less than 1 yr old), she could get hooked on the sweet stuff and never go non-sweet again. If you’re cconcerned about his weight gain, you could try these flavorings. Also, if you were using Gerber rice cereal, you can try thickening with Beechnut or Earth’s Best and see if his excema clears up.

Hope this helps, and that your lo adjusts to the Neocate soon.

January 30, 2008 at 9:13 pm #47850

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I found this thread when I did a search of “flavoring neocate” for hte last year. Toward the bottom of the link, it mentions a couple of websites, one of which is for Frontier Coop., which I actually ordered from (but never used the stuff), and I know others here have used it. You may want to check it out, and check with your Pedi to see if it’s ok. It’s also non-alcoholic.

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6600&KW=vanilla

January 30, 2008 at 11:03 pm #47854

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He is 4 months old and has been on neocate since he was about 10 weeks old. I am guessing he is close to 16 pounds – he is a little on the big side (at least it seems that way to me). I have been using Beechnut rice cereal since he was about 6-7 weeks old (thickening his bottles since he was about 4 weeks old and using gerber initially until I realized it had soy in it!) He doesn’t drink a lot when I am not thickening with rice cereal. He turns it away real fast (maybe 1-2 ounces vs. 3-4 with rice cereal added). I imagine that adding cereal disguises the taste a bit since he acts this same way (turning away the bottle) with formula thickened with something else (simply thick or thick it – both which seem to make him poop a ton!)

That did occur to me and I found a vanilla extract without alcohol in it. Trader Joes makes it.

His eczema seems to go in cycles. I can’t quite figure out what would make it flare up when it was better and nothing seemed to change.

Anyway, thank you for the information. We have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow so I can ask about the flavoring.. though he is his regular pediatrician not the gastro doc. so he seems to not have as info about this sort of thing.

January 31, 2008 at 9:43 am #47859

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This is a response to a post I had up about a year ago, my doc wouldn’t believe that taste was the reason my son wouldn’t take Neocate. Someone had a post from a long long time ago about a place called Frontier Coop. It’s a natural foods place and they have natural flavoring that you could try. I did strawberry or banana. But if you are already using vanilla, they have that too…….

HERE IS THE POST:

My little girl was put on Neocate. It has been told to me by the nutritionist at the University Medical Center where she was in the NICU for 3 months, that Neocate is one of the worst tasting formulas on the market, and getting her to take the bottle was a huge struggle! Well, it was reccomended to me that we try an organic, alcohol free Vanilla flavoring. I tried it, and it didn’t work too well, however, when I went to the website to order some more, I found that they had like 16 different organic flavorings. I ordered the Banana, just to try it. I am telling you my kid loves it! She sucks it up and it smells wonderful. I put 1 ml of the flavoring in a 10 ounce batch of Neocate (24 calorie). (About 0.1 ml an ounce, tiny bit) I want to tell you about this website so you can try it yourself if you are having trouble getting your baby to take the Neocate. (I think Neosure is the same thing but I’m not sure). I want to urge you though, to stay away from any of the Nutty flavorings because these kids can be allergic to nuts. I reccomend keeping it bland like Vanilla or Banana. They do however, also have Strawberry, Cherry, Maple. Rasberry Orange, Lemon, etc. Here’s the website:

http://WWW.FRONTIERCOOP.COM. It’s under the Baking Spices and flavorings section and it’s really inexpensive, like 4 or 5 dollars a bottle.

January 31, 2008 at 9:44 am #47860

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Okay, and now that I read the post from Dagney’s mom, you already had that info, but I did use it also and it does work and does not have alcohol… Sorry for the double post!!

January 31, 2008 at 10:37 am #47866

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Neocate also makes flavour packets especially for their Neocate formulas. I haven’t tried them myself – thankfully Paige was so young when she started on Neocate she didn’t realize food could taste better, so she took to it alright!

http://www.neocate.com/aaa_neocate/1112-neocate-products-flavor-packet.html

January 31, 2008 at 1:55 pm #47871

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Oh my gosh Sheri! Have they always made the flavor packs?? I would have tried those in a second if I would have known— way back when!! I was pulling my hair out trying to get Owen to take this stuff and I’ve been on the Nutrica website a bunch of times and don’t think I ever saw those!!

I might just go and have more kids to try it out! Just kidding!!
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