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What Causes Mucous In The Stool And Fever After Taking Cow S Milk?
Hi. My 10 monts old son has slight fever (38,5 C rektal temp) and today his stool was very sour and with a little bit of mucous. He has no other symptomes (no pain or runny nose or earache - nothing). The same thing happened 3 weeks ago and we did blood and urine tests and they were negative on infections. The pediatircian concluded that it must have been a virus because it passed 4 days later with no medication (except for the fever). He ate the whole time (smaller portions) and be breastfed more often (expecially at night). As he didn t have other symptoms I suspected teething but no teeth came out. I m afraid that the same thing is happenin - and suspect cow milk! -though ne had no rash! Three weeks ago he ate 5 spoons of youghurt for the first time and yesterday I added 3 spoons of boiled milk into his lunch. He loves to eat everything that a 10 month old is supposed to eat, he drinks formula milk and is breastfed. Could it be a reaction to a bit higher level of lactose (since formula contains lactic acids)?
Hi...I went through the history points you have provided - I was expecting that there should have been a history of cow's milk and formula feed (this too contains cow's milk protein) given to the baby. I feel that your baby is having cow's milk protein allergy. Unusually babies grow out of this sort of allergy by 1 year of age. My suggestions for you - 1. Mother should go off cow's milk protein completely. This means that you should avoid consumption of anything and everything related to cow's milk - like - milk/ curds/ ghee/ butter milk/ chocolates/ biscuits/ ice creams etc. Even while buying commercial food products, you need to see the ingredients and if they contain milk - do not consume them. 2. Feed you baby only exclusive breast feeds till 6 months of age and then start rice based feeds. 3. If this is followed scrupulously - the baby will stop having diarrhoea in another 3-4 days and then start gaining weight too. 4. If you feel your feeds alone are inadequate for the baby, then Zerolac is the only option till 6 months age. I request you to keep me posted about the recovery of the baby and follow of the case. Regards – Dr. Sumanth
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What Causes Mucous In The Stool And Fever After Taking Cow S Milk?
Hi...I went through the history points you have provided - I was expecting that there should have been a history of cow s milk and formula feed (this too contains cow s milk protein) given to the baby. I feel that your baby is having cow s milk protein allergy. Unusually babies grow out of this sort of allergy by 1 year of age. My suggestions for you - 1. Mother should go off cow s milk protein completely. This means that you should avoid consumption of anything and everything related to cow s milk - like - milk/ curds/ ghee/ butter milk/ chocolates/ biscuits/ ice creams etc. Even while buying commercial food products, you need to see the ingredients and if they contain milk - do not consume them. 2. Feed you baby only exclusive breast feeds till 6 months of age and then start rice based feeds. 3. If this is followed scrupulously - the baby will stop having diarrhoea in another 3-4 days and then start gaining weight too. 4. If you feel your feeds alone are inadequate for the baby, then Zerolac is the only option till 6 months age. I request you to keep me posted about the recovery of the baby and follow of the case. Regards – Dr. Sumanth