Lactose-Free: Toddler, Alimentum
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Alimentum
Asked by A.F. from Indianapolis
on February 26, 2010
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Hi moms, my son turned one yesterday. He had a milk protein sensitivity as an infant, so we supplemented breastmilk with Alimentum. He refused breastfeeding at 9 mon...
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- my daughter was on the ever so lovely alimentum until she was 2 yrs old because of the lactose / dairy intolerance. the ONLY thing that worked for us was adding RICE M...
- Our son was on Alimentum for a long time and I was so looking forward to him getting off of it when he was around a year old mostly because of the cost. He could not ...
- Why not try goat's, almond or coconut mlk?
Lactose Intolerant
Asked by H.R. from Denver
on January 5, 2008
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My 2 year old recently had a stomach bug and now has become lactose intolerant. This happened when she was one and we had to keep her on soy milk for about 6 weeks un...
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- Hi H., My 19 month old son is also lactose intolerant and after taking him off of alimentum, we had thje most difficult time finding the right milk for him. What we e...
- Hi H.: None of my kids are lactose intolerant, but I am. There are times when I crave milk, b/c I really do like it even though it makes me sick. If I add choc...
- My daughter has a 22month old son who drinks soy milk with a Shaklee Meal Shake. Have you ever heard of Shaklee? It is the number one natural nutritional company in A...
Need Advice on a Good Lactose Free Formula for 4 Month Old
Asked by G.M. from Washington DC
on July 24, 2008
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My 4 month old daughter's been on Similac Alimentum since around 6 weeks after finding out she has acid reflux. All the tests are behind us now, she's on medication f...
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- I'm sorry to say I have no advice on the formula options you have to choose from but having both children with food allergies I have used Nutramigen and Alimentum. I ...
- My son has the same issues. He is now 8 and the Gerd is no longer a issue. It was the formula that was aggravating it. We switched to Goodstart soy and it made a dif...
- I would suggest Isomil Advance I know two other moms that have little ones as well that have severe acid reflux. They both have used Isomil. I also used Isomil when ...
Lactose Intolerant Newborn
Asked by M.F. from Los Angeles
on July 12, 2008
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Did/does anyone have a lactose intolerant little one? It was just recently determined that my nephew is lactose intolerant. He is 10 weeks old. My SIL is really concer...
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- My son has problems with lactose as well. I cut out all dairy in my diet so I could continue breastfeeding. That seemed to work fine. It was hard for me because I l...
- Both of my children were lactose intolerant. I put them both on Soy formula. One at 3 months the other I new sooner so around 6 weeks. I very successfully used Enfamil...
- Please try and stick to breastfeeding. My sister in law went through the same thing when it came to her daughter's food allergies. The biggest thing she regretted wa...
Is My Daughter Lactose Intolerant?
Asked by A.K. from Milwaukee
on July 21, 2008
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Hi, I've finally decided to ask a question after months of reading others.
When my daughter was 6 months or so we switched to an Organic formula and she often woke ...
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- Another thing to consider would be her getting air from a bottle. You might try the ones with liners, that helped with my kids. Lactose intolerance usually causes di...
- I would definietly consider she may be intolerant. My husband and I are, and so we were cautious to start our daughter on whole milk. When we did try it, my daughter w...
- I would recomend Lactaid milk over soy milk for this reason : soy milk tastes a lot different from cow's milk/lactaid milk. So if you ever wanted to switch her from so...
Switching to Similac Alimentum to Help with Eczema
Asked by C.S. from Miami
on March 27, 2009
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My 7 month old son has really bad eczema. I've tried every lotion, body wash, detergent-you name it, I tried it. He was on Good Start formula, then I switched him to ...
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- You should give him only hidrolized milk like nutramigen, pregestimil, nutriben... and about food. start only whith one cereal at a time. NO WHEAT befor a year. start ...
- Hi I just wanted to mention that there have been a lot of very serious health concerns with soy formula.You can google it&ask your childs doctor as well.Soy has been ...
- Yes, I used Alimentum for my son when we were told he had eczema. It worked great. So much so that even after some time when the doctor told us we could go back to o...
Does ALIMENTUM (Ready to Feed) Help ECZEMA?
Asked by K.A. from Seattle
on January 12, 2010
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My daughter has eczema, I breast feed and I know that the eczema is related to food allergies. I have been on a restricted diet able to eat only rice and meat with wh...
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- yOUR DAUGHTER will get plenty of vitamins from your milk regardless of your diet. They have a way of drawing what they need from you regardless of your intake. Taking ...
- I'm not familiar with alimentum. I also don't think that, if your daughter has food allergies that switching to a formula is necessarily going to help. She may be al...
- I've never used it, but my son was allergic to tons & I had ot do your diet. Ultimately, after about he was about a year old his allergies went away alittle at a time ...
Milk Allergy or Lactose Intolerance?
Asked by N.S. from Tucson
on September 15, 2009
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Hi moms! Our oldest daughter was allergic to the milk protein (casein) for the first 3 years of her life before suddenly growing out of it. Our middle son has totall...
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- Our little girl (now 7 months) started having the diarrhea and spit-up issues after we switched to formula from breast milk around 10 weeks old. We initially thought i...
- Hello N., This website breaks down all of the different milk problems people can have and what the symptms and differences are between them all. http://www.scien...
- Have you discussed this with your doctor ?? What does he/she say ?
Lactose Intolerance in Infants
Asked by A.R. from Madison
on September 12, 2008
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Does anyone have an infant who is lactose intolerant? If so, what are the symptoms? I have a 6 month old boy who is primarily breastfed with formula supplemented. I...
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- A., My son is also lactose intollerant. He is now 3 years old. When he was an infant & we went to formula, he would get the same symptoms-gas, bloating, constipat...
- We too started out alternating breastfeeding and formula with my oldest. But it wasn't until after hundreds of dollars spent on $20 cans of Nutramigen each week and e...
- Hi A.- My son who will be 2 in Nov. is intolerant to all dairy and soy and is allergic to bananas. He started having problems within 1 wk of being born- mostly gas...
Similac Alimentum Vs. Enfamil Nutramigen
Asked by N.S. from Dayton
on September 3, 2009
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Hi moms! I'm back again. My sweet boy is 12 weeks old and while this is NOT what I want to do, I'm beginning to feel its in my babe's best chance at happiness:-) I've ...
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- HI, i was in the same place with my baby. I really did not want to give up on the nursing since I really enjoyed with my son, however, once switching to alimentum she ...
- Have you already stopped breastfeeding? My little guy had very very bad reflux (enough to get the doctors concerned). We saw so many specialists testing for diseases ...
- We have only used the Alimentum, my son had a milk protein sensitivity, and I was breastfeeding--tried for 5 weeks to get all dairy out of my diet, and he seemed to do...
