Helen Butler asked about a baby who experienced constipation
following introduction of solids.
Constipation can be a sign of cow's milk intolerance.
See http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/339/16/1100
for a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, Volume
339, number 16, pages 1100-1104, October 15, 1998.
It is titled "Intolerance of Cow's Milk and Chronic Constipation in
Children."
> Conclusions: In young children, chronic constipation can be a
> manifestation of intolerance of cow's milk.
>
This is something to consider, if it hasn't been already, with this
family. You can also do a Google search on "Constipation and
introduction of cow's milk in infants" to bring up additional articles.
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:18:44 +0000
> From: Helen Butler <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: solids
>
> I'm trying to help a mum at present who actually wants to withhold
> solids f=
> rom her baby because of the experience she had with her
> firstborn. This =
> little girl was doing fine on milk alone but once solids
> introduced suffe=
> red dreadful constipation. She had poor muscle tone in her trunk
> and was =
> late in sitting up etc. Has been on laxatives ever since and is
> now 3. I =
> supported mum when everyone was telling her best to wean so
> little one wo=
> uld drink more [no, no lumps in the milk!, we did joke about that]
> despite =
> when baby went off solids and back to exclusive bf the problem
> went awa=
> y, and through toddler nursing. Firstborn is under the care of an
> eminent=
> children's hospital here in the UK, and they don't really now
> what is wro=
> ng. We have sought the opinion of bf supportive docs who think
> it would=
> be a bad idea to withhold solids if baby is keen - is now 7 mths
> and has =
> better muscle tone than his sister, even though they seem to be
> causing constipation, but to go slowly and go with baby led
> feeding and a=
> bove all keep up the BF. Daughter has allergies so they need
> to be eve=
> n more careful.=0AHave any of you come across a child with
> problems like =
> this little girl's and if so how did they resolve. The mum would
> like to =
> find out that she's not the only one with such a problem=0A=0AHelen
>
Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC, LLLL
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