This started about 3 months ago when mom called me because of her 3rd
breastfed child, 4 months old started having bloody stools.  At that time
the pediatrician was running stools tests looking for the usual culprits
which were coming back negative.  The baby was thriving, Hgb good, content.
 The mother removed dairy from her diet but the baby continued to have
occasional bloody stools, never as much blood as before.  She was useing
soy based products and so removed these from her diet also.  There were
still occasional stools with scant blood.  The mother was getting
significant pressure to wean, especially from in-law side of the family
however with the onset of all this the mother-in-law told her that her
husband had had bloody stools most of his first year.  The two sisters had
had less severe problems however two of their bottlefed infants had had
bloody stools, one even while on Nutramigen.  the mother has persevered but
needed to be reassured she was not harming her infant so took baby for
second opinion.  This pediatrician ran blood tests for allergy to milk
which was negative.  The mother currently is not consuming dairy or soy and
following a rotation diet with the pediatrician supportive of her
continuing to totally breastfeed.  The baby still is having an occasional
stool with scant blood but the mother is no longer concerned.  This week
she had three kids in to the pediatrician...they have bronchiolitis and mom
is starting to have symptoms.  At this visit the pediatrician told her he
was rethinking what was going on and came up with hemangiomatosis.  The
little guy has what the mom has described as baby acne that she thought was
related to intolerance of dairy and soy and whatever else, however the
doctor is thinking it could be this with the resulting bleed of the
intestine.  A search of the archives for hemangiomatosis and bloody stools
did not produce any information so I am asking for help from all of you.  I
know this is long, but I have tried to include everything that might shed
some light on this (and I am verbose by nature).  TIA...
Linda Beckler, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Mandan, ND
"Be resolutely and faithfully what you are;
 be humbly what you aspire to be."  Thoreau
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