Michelle

No, I don't think you are being negative at all!!

I have just pretty much had enough of conventional medicine saying "well, I don't know what is wrong, here, have some more antibiotics".

The thing is, Liam has had a "yucky" eye since he was born - it comes and goes. I noticed that it seems to appear when DH and Cairenn are sneezing away with hayfever. I have had countless consults about it with chn, and doctors and they all say "he will grow out of it" or give him antibiotics, which does not clear it up. Essentially, the last doctor that I saw told me that it is happening when he has excess mucous and it travels up his sinuses into his eyes and becomes infected, hence the conjunctivitis. This explains why it happens when the other sneezepots here get hayfever!!

It has gotten worse since I stopped breastfeeding (at 6 months) and put him on formula. He also gets nappy rash every now and then - where he is fine for 1 nappy change then the next, without any warning (except smell!) his bum is red raw, bleeding and weeping, so we have had an idea from way back that cow's milk might be causing a problem. His poos are always explosive and often smell like acid. Not at all like his sister's were, and since putting him on the goat's milk, we have actually had a few "normal" poos!!

So, at this stage, I will keep giving him goat's milk (which has all the same calcium as cow's milk) and give him the soy yoghurt and things like that. I tried him on rice milk yesterday and I was rewarded with a night of crying, bellyaches and farts (from Liam - not me!!) which is exactly the reaction he had to farex and other grainy stuff (like multigrain bread).

Oh - and the naturopath didn't do an allergy test like you mentioned - he is also trained in iridology and looked in his eyes which can show health problems. I tend to believe this diagnosis as I have had a similar consult many years ago that told me that I had impaired glucose tolerance and was told to take Chromium tablets - something I did not remember until I was diagnosed gestational diabetic and my blood chromium level hardly registered (which is an indicator of insulin resistance).

Thanks again for your help - I will plod on for a few more weeks and if nothing changes, I will get him to see an allergy specialist.

Thanks again