Why infant is having bloody diarrhea, red spots on face and nasal congestion?
Patient: Hi good morning My baby is 2 months old and 10 days ago he started green bloody dierria after we checked his stool , result was good no any problem with his poop , the Doktor told us stop breast feed and give him soy formula first we gave him 12 hours pedialyte and we start soy formula next 2 days he was ok but Doktor told us now you can start breast feed again when I start breast feed he got red spots on his face like egzama and he was very irradiated looks like his face itching, he is caughing like a dog barking he has nasal congestion and yesterday he vomited 3 times but very very much and we gave him pedialyte again he got fishy smells poop Doctor: 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. I request you to keep me posted about the recovery of the baby and follow of the case.You can approach me at the following link. Please find the link below - www.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-sumanth-amperayani/67696Regards – Dr. Sumanth