Symptoms of Lactose Intolerence and Lactose Overload in your breastfed NB & baby.

[PumpkinZulu]

I agree with OP. while it's great you and your family are all happy and well, the info you're giving isn't 100% correct and could really adversely affect a struggling new mum. My DD2 had lactose overload as well as severe acid reflux. She would scream non stop, once for 3 hours straight. She has been 100% exclusively breastfed from birth, we used techniques like block feeding as suggested by the ABA to combat the lactose overload, and she is now medicated for the reflux. She's a happy and healthy 8.5kg four and a half month old

[Razzberry]

There is also milk protein intolerance - which is what both my children had, though with my daughter this was only discovered after talking a a paediatric gastro specialist as she is still on medication for severe acid reflux at 3.5 years. I BF my daughter till 6.5 months until she was losing alot of weight and had complete breast refusal and her reflux was just getting worse and worse. With my son, he was put on reflux meds at 10 days old and by 6 weeks was still screaming the house down with little change, even when I cut dairy from my diet, so he was put on neocate which is an elemental prescription formula - it totally changed our lives! I had a sleeping and settled baby within weeks. I still think Breast milk is best for almost every baby, but in my children, if I had listened to the doctors and put my daughter on prescription formula we probably could have avoided the year from hell, as well as many other issues that continue to plaque my daughters from complications from reflux. I will breastfeed my next baby, but if the same symptoms occur and I have changed my diet and still not change then of course I will look at specialised formulas.