Lactose intolerance symptoms include wind, stomach pain, bloating, rumbling tummy and diarrhoea. Babies with lactose intolerance might also have nappy rash. Most breastfed babies with lactose intolerance can still breastfeed. See a GP about formula-fed babies.
Rapid allergic reactions to milk may cause skin symptoms, such as itchy, raised, and red or discolored bumps. A baby may also experience swelling around the mouth, difficulty breathing, and agitation. If a baby experiences these symptoms, caregivers should call 911 immediately.
It can be tricky to distinguish between the two but they're actually completely different conditions. A food allergy, such as cow's milk allergy, is an immune reaction to the protein in milk. A lactose intolerance is caused by the inability to break down lactose, which is the sugar in milk.
Loose stools
Sometimes your child might pass loose, watery, yellow and green coloured stools after two hours of consuming milk or any other dairy product. This could be a sign of lactose intolerance in the baby.
Symptoms of cows' milk allergy
skin reactions – such as an itchy rash or swelling of the lips, face and around the eyes. digestive problems – such as stomach ache, vomiting, colic, diarrhoea or constipation. hay fever-like symptoms – such as a runny or blocked nose. eczema that does not improve with treatment.
Symptoms of Dairy Allergy in Breastfed Babies
The proteins in cow's milk can cause gas in a baby's stomach and intestines, which can lead to pain, vomiting, or diarrhea. A food allergy could also cause reflux, symptoms of colic, a rash or hives, swelling, a runny nose, wheezing, and bloody poop.
Babies who have digestive disorders will generally show symptoms in the form of fussiness, flatulence, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, to dehydration. Entering the age of 6 months and over, baby's nutrition is not limited by only breast milk.
Potential Side Effects of Lactose-Free Baby Formula
Symptoms include bloated bellies, loose stools and colic. Symptoms of bacterial infection from contaminated formula include crying, fatigue, fever and poor feeding.
The delayed type of cow's milk allergy may mimic colic with fussiness and digestive gripes. However, certain features make cow's milk allergy more likely than pure colic. These include blood in the stools, diarrhoea or constipation, poor growth, excessive vomiting, associated eczema or wheezing.
It may take up to two weeks for the baby's stomach / intestines to heal from any irritation caused by the intolerance. Cow's milk protein can stay in mom's body for 1 ½ to 2 weeks, and then it may be another 1 ½ to 2 weeks for the protein to get out of the baby's system.
How can I tell? One way to check if your child has trouble digesting lactose is to take all the milk products out of your child's diet for two weeks and to then see if his or her symptoms improve. After two weeks, slowly reintroduce the products in small amounts each day to see if symptoms return.
The doctor may refer you to an allergist, who might do skin testing. In skin testing, the doctor or nurse will place a tiny bit of milk protein on the skin, then make a small scratch on the skin. If your child reacts to the allergen, the skin will swell a little in that area like an insect bite.
Babies often spit up bits of food, but vomiting beyond the typical mealtime regurgitation should be examined by a doctor. Reflux symptoms, often accompanied by signs of distress (such as back-arching and restlessness), can be a symptom of cow's milk allergy.
The most common symptoms of digestive disorders include bleeding, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, pain, nausea and vomiting.
In children with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the most common symptoms are pain in the abdomen, often related to bowel movements, and changes in bowel movements. These changes may be diarrhea, constipation, or both, depending on what type of IBS a child has.
Milk allergies are most common in infants and young children. Children who have a milk allergy will typically show symptoms immediately, within minutes and up to 2 hours of consuming milk or products containing milk proteins.
If your baby has Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) he might have colic-like symptoms, and be wheezy, vomit, have diarrhea (including bloody diarrhea), constipation, a rash, eczema and/or a blocked nose.
Cow's milk proteins, to which some infants are sensitive, takes 1 to 2 hours.
While constipation is less common than diarrhea, it could also be a sign of cow's milk allergy. Blood resulting from irritation in the gut can also be a sign of cow's milk allergy in infants. Sticky mucus in their stools could resemble the mucus you see when you have a cold or runny nose.
Colic is a possible sign of cow's milk allergy. Colic-type symptoms may occur as a delayed reaction within a few hours or days of consuming cow's milk protein. Babies with cow's milk allergy may have a range of symptoms of which colic could be just one.