NOT COLIC?

OK this is the Dr’s opinion about what is wrong with matt. And I'm starting to believe this is probably the case just do to Matt’s reaction to what we have done so far.

Matt’s allergy is not to Dairy, so you can’t fix it with soy, rice, goat or other milk substitutes. A dairy allergy presents as vomiting or at least heavily spitting up. Matt never spits up. That’s how the dr’s were able to know not to put him on soy (or other choice). They already KNEW it wouldn’t help.

I say “allergy” when in actuality it is more of intolerance. He has Intolerance to milk protein amino acid chains. I am going to try to explain this as best I can, so please bear with me.

A protein chain is made up of amino acids. Something Like this string of beads, each color is a different acid. Your (and my) digestive system can take these beads and separate them when we digest them. Matt’s system cannot. All protein has these amino acid chains. Soy milk, rice milk, goat’s milk, cow’s milk, breast milk, they all have VERY similar protein chains. That is why you can’t just breast feed him or put him on something other than cow’s milk formula. They all have a long chain that he cant break apart.

So He needs as specialized formula. This formula has been broken down (by manual process) they have separated the beads by color for him already. So he can digest his food. The first Dr told me it was “predigested” which honestly I thought was gross sounding. But its like how a bird will regurgitate to feed the baby birds. Matt needs to have it partially broken down for him. And since I don’t want to feed him my barf, (LOL) the formula is the best bet. He will grow out of this.

Now, this is why it took so long to diagnose the intolerance. This is called a “slow allergy” if you are allergic to strawberries you are going to rash out as soon as someone slips you one right? Well that’s because its an allergy, not an intolerance. Matt was actually reacting from this from bottle one. And each bottle after that one made things a tiny bit worse, until his crying made me (and family) think whats the deal. We then switched formulas to another milk based normal formula. And each bottle of that made things a little bit worse until we started bleeding from the bowels.

Which took us to the dr and why we’ve done all this, this week. I hope this explains why we didn’t try all of these other ideas.

And so far, Matt isn’t fussing when he eats, but he does still while the food moves through his system, although I am certain hes still sore inside. We see the dr again tomorrow. And I am hoping we will be told we are on the right path.