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> From: Terry L. Dise, M.D. <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> Subject: stinky gas or malodorous flatulence
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 1997 6:49 PM
>
> A question, oh wise ones.
> What could be the etiology of stinky gas in an exclusively breastfed
infant
> whose stools don't smell, only the gas?  He is not colicky, has normal
seedy
> stools about 4x/day.  I told the mom just "relative" lactose
intolerance,
> and that it would improve with time as his lactase enzyme increases, but
> could there be something else?  Also I told her to try a little
acidophilus,
> if she wants to.
>
>
> Terry Lynn Dise, MD
>
Terry, we have recently had an infant in our NICU whose isolette was so
stinky that the nurses nearly fainted when they opened the portholes.
Baby was totally breastmilk-fed.  We took mom off dairy and stools and
isolette atmosphere became tolerable again. I find quite a few babies
intolerant of dairy in mother's diet, usually causing colic, but this was
a clear case of overwhelming odor associated with dairy in mom's diet, but
baby wasn't abnormally fussy.
                        Katie Winchell, BS, IBCLC