The fact that it only took 3 days for the baby to be completely negative for blood makes me think there is a greater chance that the blood was mom's. It takes a couple of weeks for the gut of a baby with frank blood in stool to recover completely. All my GI MDs expect positive stools for at least 2 weeks, even when the pt is on free-amino acid formula.
I would suggest mom keeps pumping to maintain her supply, and that they should challenge the baby with breastfeeding in a few weeks. I hope you have supportive MDs on your team!

Good luck,

Daniela


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From: Lactation Information and Discussion
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Katherine Lilleskov
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [LACTNET] celiac disease/thrush/bloody stools


After 3 days on the Alimentum the stools are testing neg for occult blood=
, 
which is an improvement, though it is hard to say why there was an 
improvement.The hospitalization followed the second episode of grossly =

bloody stools, so there appears to be an episodic nature to this. It is =

just still interesting to me that this all occured simultaneously with th=
e 
mother's complaint of ductal pain, and I'm still wondering if there is a =

connection.Could the baby be having an allergic reaction to yeast, for =

instance? Could a bacterial infection be involved - the mother has been =

asking the MD's involved to culture her milk, but no one is interested in=
 
doing that.

Or as someone suggested offlist could the blood be the mother's d/t ducta=
l 
irritation?

The mother has removed cow's milk from her diet at MD's suggestion and =

celiac producing grains following her own inclinations and has resumed =

nursing. We are all holding our breath....

Thanks to all who answered
Kathy

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