Formula transition at 1 year

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone….my son is about to turn 1 year old and has been on Alimentum since he was 8wks. When he was 6 mos. his ped. put him on soy and it was a disaster…..he only had 2 oz. and violently threw up for 3 hours after. The ped. chalked it up to a virus and had us try again at 9 mos….with the same result. We have also tried milk based formula, but he gets terrible excema. What is the formula or milk that an MSPI toddler is transitioned to? Any thoughts / info. is greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

rice milk? and some do potato milk, i think i am going to try goats milk and see how he does, there is a possibility that he wont be able to, but i know there are moms who claim their children couldnt do cows milk but could do goats.

[Anonymous]

Hi, Seth just turned two and we still are not on milk (although he is eating dairy). He was never officially diagnosed MSPI but I am certain he had it based on his reactions to milk and soy formulas. Like your son, he was on Alimentum. At around age 1, I introduced enriched rice milk to him but continued to give him Alimentum since it did not contain adequate fat and protein. At about 18 months, I switched him over to Pediasure and rice milk and so far he has done great with it. The Pediasure has some milk proteins but not as much as milk or milk based formulas. It is also lactose free.

[hellbennt]

there are all the ‘milks’- rice, potato, almond

and then there are the ‘good fats’ to add to the diet: olive oil, flax seed oil, avocado oil and (I think I’ve read about others like grapeseed? canola?)

and there are multi vitamins to add as well

and there are calcium rich foods: black strap molasses has a lot of calcium, broccoli…

[Anonymous]

we never fully transitioned to “milk” although hannah does drink about 8 oz of chocolate milk every other day and tolerates most dairy products. laura is right about other foods with calcium and not to worry so much about milk per se (granola bars, pancake mix, in addition to cheese, yogurt, and cottage cheese, of course). once you are sure that he can tolerate dairy, then you can try milk, but don’t hurry off of alimentum quite yet (although it is like getting a raise when you have to stop buying it)…this is how we did it (as suggested by our allergist/ gi at 13 months):

1. introduce foods with “hidden dairy” first. we did cheddar bunnies, goldfish type crackers for a week.

2. then we went slow, with the equivilent of 1 oz a day of “processed” dairy in the form of yogurt and cheese. yogurt is sort of ideal because it has probiotics (active cultures) which ease the digestive tract. after a few days we’d add an oz until we were up to about 4 oz a day. we went slow, although it is tempting to go faster, we found that the only side effect of the new dairy was some gas which eased as her system got used to the dairy.

3. after 4 oz were tolerated, we started to replace her alimentum with an oz of milk daily and followed the same type of routine that we did with processed dairy. this went ok tolerance wise, but she just didn’t love milk. we decided to keep her on alimentum/ bottles until about 16 months. then we just gave her drinking yogurt/ slice of cheese at the times when she would have had a bottle. we also added vitamins at this time.

weirdly enough, she will occasionally ask for “white milk,” which i put a little in an open cup and she’ll drink it with no problems. i do track, roughly, the amount of calcium she gets daily and will give her a supplement (nature’s plus children’s chewable calcium, it is really yummy!), if she hasn’t had enough. this happens rarely though, because her diet consists mostly of ravioli and mac and cheese…

good luck.

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