nasty poos and dairy allergy?

Right so for the last week Lily has had the runs super bad. Its like, really runny custard colour instead of 'normal' FF baby poo. She's not dehydrating from what I can tell - no normal warning signs, although I have been giving her little bits of water just in case. We went to see the nurse for her 3 month imms - she did poos and the nurse didnt seem concerned about it. Its super eggy as well. Theres no straining, no tummy pain and she's not crying afterwards.
What my question to you is - because Thomas is lactose intollerant like his dad, could Lily be developing the same thing? I dont recall him having this problem from such an early age - I think he was over 1 before I realised that yoghurt etc was upsetting his tummy.
Should I just swap her to a dairy free formula to see if that makes a difference? How long after changing does it start helping? I mean, she's happy as larry otherwise. She does look a bit peeky and dark under the eyes, so somethings not agreeing with her for sure! help! lol

Only problem with Neocate is it's so bloody expensive! But they seem to be the only one (that i've seen) that does the specialty formulas. Can you get it perscribed? lol.. I know they sell it at the chemist too.

Perhaps try the Lactose free formula that you can get from the supermarket. I think it's S26 that do one. Definitely don't introduce soy as she's too young for it.

My daughter has a dairy allergy and I only noticed the signs when I switched her from BF to formula. We found the lactose free stuff helped alot. however, after she was diagnosed with a dairy allergy she went on to neocate and things improved even more.

You could try the lactose free formula or the HA formula you get at the supermarket, if those pooh's continue then you have a good trial already for them to subscribe you either neocate or elecare which are more broken down.

All those symptoms point to dairy to me, including the circles under her eyes.

heres me saying i'll get some in the groceries, I meant the novalac one. Yea i'll take you up on that KA :D

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HunterMama how are they doing the allegry tests we have b een told that they usually don't give you a good indication till after the age of 2 we went through all thi with our mikey for his ezhema and ened up with no answer's on the upside he did grow out of whatt ever it was. we are not debating weather or not to do allgery tests on elmily now she is over 2, but worried we will get teh same result with her as we did for mikey and put her through so much.
Miss angel her poos sound alot like vanessa's were and I was breatfeeding when I tried to wean her on to formula she had a nasty reaction so I cut dairy out of my diet(decided not to waen just yet) and it has done the trick she is a much happier baby. we bought the lactose free s26 she has only had the odd bottle but had no trouble.

That is promising!

Hope you didn't get to freaked in the earthquake.

ButterflyMum - We went to a Naturopath and did the hair allergy test which might be a bit alternative for some people but it showed up an intolerance to wheat which is definatley what I saw when he had rusks and farex. He also reacts when I eat wheat so Im cutting it out.

We also got a referral from the paed to get skin sensitivity tests done, but Im not holding out much hope for these. Because he has been off all solids for a while, and I cut out dairy, wheat etc over a week ago I dont think it'll show anything.

Well the consistancy has gone back to normal now but its still very very pale in colour. She 'looks' better too. Thats on the lactose free formula. I guess it will take her body a little bit of time to get back to normal. But yay for happy baby!

we got told they arent reliable simply because they often grow out of them so therefore they might be allergic now but not later if you know what i mean..the actual test is quite reliable.. and harmless and easily done and they dont seem to mind when they are little.. I have had two with quite different reactions and Liam still refuses neocate..though i am very happy about that with the recent earthquake!