u/cheese_n_spice

My breastfed baby is 6 months and has had some MSPI symptoms almost his whole life, but no improvement or diagnosis, and I feel very very far from getting to the bottom of it and feel so unsupported by doctors. At this moment I don’t know who to turn to other than Reddit.

Since the first few weeks of life my baby has had
-mucusy stool pretty much every day
-very trace amounts of blood in stool approx 4 times
-projectile vomit 3 times
-a little eczema (although that runs in the family)

That’s it. No fussiness or anything like that.

First doctor wasn’t super convinced and left it up to me on what to do. I cut out dairy from my diet for 5 weeks and saw no change at all. Then we moved states and new doctor said I could try hypoallergenic formula if I want (I really want to keep breastfeeding) and referred us to a GI with over a month long wait. On top of that, baby only gained a pound from 4 to 6 month check up and is in the 15th percentile for weight (he’s slowly been dropping from 75th at birth)

I feel like I don’t know what to do next. I suppose my options are

-try cutting dairy out again but with soy this time?
-go on a formula trial and potentially give up breastfeeding for good
-wait to see GI
-try introducing baby to dairy through solids and see what happens (Dr says this is ok, but Google says this is a bad idea)
-a combination of those things

Does anyone have any advice?

Hi! I suspect my baby may have a milk protein intolerance. His pediatrician has not been very helpful and was back and forth on whether she thought he had it and told me to try cutting out milk (no other dairy products) to see if I notice change. That’s contradictory to everything I’ve read online, which says to remove all dairy, so I thought I’d turn to all of you to get some other thoughts.

My baby is 4 months and exclusively breastfed. He frequently has mucusy stool and small patches of eczema (I and my other child also have eczema, so could be unrelated). Last week he had a very small amount of blood in his stool, but he never had blood again. He’s also randomly projectile vomited three times in his life (most recently today). I thought it could be related? Other than that he has no other symptoms. He’s not even very fussy. His doctor didn’t think the eczema or bloody stool looked like CMPI, but possibly an anal tear.

Regardless, I decided to cut out all obvious dairy products like milk, cheese, and yogurt, but did not take the full plunge with cutting out any product with trace amounts of milk ingredients, or soy or egg for that matter. Today is day 3 of cutting out most dairy. I would say the mucus has improved, but there are still traces of it.

Does it sound like my baby could have CMPI? Am I wasting my time if I’m not cutting out ALL dairy? How long do I cut dairy out for before knowing if he has an intolerance? Because he doesn’t have severe symptoms, am I simply looking for no more mucus in his poop and possibly eczema to clear up?

TLDR; my EBF baby has mucusy stools, eczema, and bloody stool one time. Should I be cutting out all dairy to see if his symptoms go away? Is cutting out most dairy for a couple weeks enough to know if he even has CMPI?