I have a niece with a 7 month old baby who has had "gas" issues since 
birth. He passes gas which Mom reports is very smelly. He pulls his legs 
up crys, and does not sleep longer than 1 hour at a time at night. 
Nursing will comfort him and put him back to sleep, for another hour. He 
was 33 weeks and had one bottle and has had nothing but breast milk 
since and was never on antibiotics.  She has had difficulty getting the 
Doctors to listen to her with them assuming he is a fussy baby and a 
complaining Mom. She finally has seen a GI Doctor who did a barium enema 
and dx colitis and spasmodic colon. Mom has been two months of dairy, 
soy, peanut free diet with little change in the baby.He has had some 
blood (sometime mucous) in his stools (no fissures) on many days. He has 
been on Levsin antispasmodic for several months with little change in 
him.  He is better in the daytime and the recent addition of solids in 
the past month has made little difference, and maybe he is a little 
better during the day. Allergy testing on him revealed no allergic 
reaction to dairy. He has no eczema or rashes. Now her GI Dr. is asking 
her to put him on a hydrolyzed or elemental formula. Mom is hesitant 
because it seems dairy is not the issue, and nursing is such a comfort 
to him. She has not tried a bottle in several months.  Any ideas? She is 
ready to get a second opinion. Is there any health food store products 
anyone has used. Has anyone ever had a Mom who tried Pancrease?  
Although he has not had spitting up or any other symptoms of reflux, he 
is always comforted by nursing. 
Dianne from Florida

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