Does my LO have milk intolerance ?

Question

I am wondering if anyone's little one has experience milk intolerance. I am breast-feeding and recently found out that my daughter has reflux. But I also can't help but wonder if she has milk intolerance too? She just seems like she has a painful gas and that pooping is a painful experience for her. She clinches her fists, gets red in the face, and even screams sometimes. All that is finally followed by a loud fart and a big poop! I know breast-fed babies have mustard color poop that can have what looks like cottage cheese. my babies poop looks like this, but I feel like it's more sticky even mucousy instead of mushy? If anyone has a baby who does this, what was it related to ?' Can it be milk intolerance? Or do babies do this? If a breast feeding momma can post a picture of their babies dirty diaper. I would appreciate it.

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My baby had a milk sensitivity and has all the symptoms you mentioned! His stool ranges from yellow to green! Sticky looking to runny! I took dairy out of my diet and things improved drastically! I just ate some dairy to test a month later and all the symptoms came back! So we re going to stay away from it for a bit longer and try again later!

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my LO is like that, but shes only 10 days old and still adjusting, but she goes through this screaming and farting and nursing and pooping cycle until shes so exhausted she sleeps... my doctor suggested anti-gas baby drops. havent tried them yet, but he said that some babies are just, well, gassy. sometimes its the way they breathe while nursing, sometimes its their own body.

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My baby has the same pooping ritual. Squeezing his whole body a few grunts or cries and a wet fart noise. We are also exclusively breast feeding and it looks similar to what you described. I don't think he has any intolerance issues.

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How old is your baby? Mine had a really hard time the first 2 weeks. She would cry and scream, sometimes for an hour, before it all came out and she was happy again. The pediatrician said it was too early to know if it was just her digestive system getting used to doing its job or if it could be an intolerance. I couldn't stand waiting any longer, so I stopped drinking (cows) milk (still occasionally eating some other dairy products, though). My daughter became better within a couple of days. Except now I have no idea if it was the milk or just her getting older. I would suggest talking to your pediatrician first, especially of your baby is already a few weeks old. But I guess you can always try to cut out milk for a while, too.

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I would talk to a breastfeeding consultant. It might be something in your diet.

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We're dealing with a possible food allergy with our EBF 3 month old.  She gets pretty fussy snd gassy, same kind of thing.  Ask your pediatrician about testing her poop to look for blood or other signs of an allergy.  I'm currently on a strict elimination diet.  No dairy, no soy, no wheat, no fish, no nuts for 2 weeks.  Test poop again and if all clear will add thing at a time back in.  Tried eliminating only dairy at first and it didn't resolve issue.  Apparently dairy, soy and egg are thr most common allergies.

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Usually a dairy (I assume that's what you mean) intolerance will cause bright green, mucosy poop.

Does my LO have milk intolerance ?

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