At a loss
I’m feeling quite emotionally exhausted and at a loss on what my next steps should be so I’m posting here in the hopes that someone else has had a similar experience to my own.
We determined my baby boy had CMPA at 8 weeks old after he was exhibiting some classic symptoms: silent reflux, baby acne/eczema, excessive gassiness and arching of the back during feeds, and mucusy stools.
We put him on Nutramigen for 2 weeks and noticed all his acne started clearing up, he was sleeping longer stretches, no more mucus in stool, gassiness seemed to be getting better and he was no longer arching his back during feeds. He continued to have reflux symptoms such as excessive spitting and hiccuping but he was no longer fussy and miserable so we were happy with the progress.
We were hopeful that Nutramigen would continue to work, but then at 10 weeks he got his 2 month vaccines including his rotavirus live vaccine and noticed his excessive gas was back, he had trouble sleeping, and was pooping 7-8 times a day. Initially we thought it might be him recovering from the rotavirus vaccine, but almost a full week later he was still having trouble with excessive gassiness and poops that ended up causing his open sores on his butt.
I started reading that Nutramigen can cause horrible butt rashes on some babies, and between this and the ongoing reflux, we decided to switch to Alimentum RTF as I had read positive experiences in this community.
We are 5 days in transition now on 25 Nutramigen and 75 Alimentum and we’ve noticed his butt sores have completely healed, pooping 3-4 times a day, reflux symptoms are gone, and gassiness is much better. HOWEVER, now we are starting to notice a return in acne/eczema on his face and body.
Should I continue to stick it out with transitioning to Alimentum RTF for the full 2 weeks? He seems happier on Alimentum aside from the acne/eczema but I’m afraid it’ll continue to get worse once we make the full transition. It took us weeks and multiple formula trials to get to the conclusion that our baby has CMPA and now it feels like I have to choose between the lesser of two evils: butt sores or acne/eczema.
If you’ve made it this far thank you for reading, I’m pretty much just venting into the void at this point trying to find any possible answers for my LO.