Symptoms of Lactose Intolerence and Lactose Overload in your breastfed NB & baby.
Hi All,
As my introduction post said I am a newbie but oldie to BB and it is great to be back on BB!
In all the advice I've given and recieved this would have to be my most important to date really, as this was such a huge issue that we are still getting over even though DS is 27 months old now.
I wondered where to post this, but when I came across this forum I thought it would be best as we first thought it was reflux, colic, you name it etc etc.
My question to you is would you recognised lactose overload in your baby? My goodness, I didnt. Miss H cried non stop for the first 4 months of her life, and even though I had a ton of MH support no-one, including myself and my mum realised what was going on. Thankfully DH and I chanced going to a doctor who worked on a sunday, it was when we were sleep deprived and hoping to just get through another day. It's was a life changing moment.
He asked me whether anyone in my family was lactose intolerent as a baby... which I was. He asked if anyone had ever had soy formula as a baby... which I had. In fact that same doctor happened to have 7, yes 7 grandchildren, who were exactly the same and thank goodness for that!!
We were advised to put DS (then 4 weeks old) on soy formula, so we bought some on the way home and from that very first bottle we had a different baby, she settled and slept! Did you know that human (your) milk has the highest concentration of lactose in all the mammals on earth? I did ALOT of research at the time as I was desparate for answers. In short, lactose overload is exactly what in implies, and the main sympton that sets it apart from others is green frothy poo, and intolerence of any breast/ cows milk based formula. It was a classic case of when breast was definatley not best.
I hope this may help someone in the future.
I know soy formula has been under debate in recent times, the first when our DS was born in 2011.
I was born in 1980 and was a soy only baby no negetive effects that I'm aware of so far!! Both me and my daughter by 12 months old were on regular cows milk, yogurt, cheese etc
Symptoms of Lactose Intolerence and Lactose Overload in your breastfed NB & baby.
The ABA has some great research and articles on lactose intolerance vs lactose overload as like Eenee says true lactose intolerance is very rare. I will post the links when home.
Symptoms of Lactose Intolerence and Lactose Overload in your breastfed NB & bab
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 :)
