Dear Barbara, regarding your patient, did you get in the history that either mom or baby has been on antibiotics in the past 3-4 months. With those symptoms, I always check a stool for C difficile toxin. For those who dont know C difficile is a bacteria that grows in the gut of patients if the bacterial balance has been upset, the toxin cause injury to the mucosa and bloody stools. Breastfed babies seem to have less sever symptoms than non bf because bm inhibits the growht of the bacteria. Also, if the symptom is only a few specs of blood in stool, I am not sure that we do babies a favor to get them to quit BF for elemental diet. Benefit: make blood go away, long term does it make a difference????? Disatvantage: not breastfeeding with all the consequences. Good luck Maryelle