Strange story about poisoning baby ... breast milk

Day after day, Angus can only sleep for 20 minutes before waking up and screaming . until her mother finds out that her son is allergic to her milk.

The nurse brought the scanner to her head and shouted and asked me, "How long have you been like this?", "From birth," I said, and wondered why she was looking at her head. the boy while his problem seems to be in his mouth.

She gently explained that she was looking for tumors in the brain, a possible reason why my son screamed in pain almost 24 hours a day.

After nearly 3 months without sleep, I was so exhausted that receiving this new information was almost emotionless, but her next question made me shed tears. Looking straight at me, she asked, " How did you endure the screams? "

And when I looked back at the crazy baby in the hospital bed, gasping for breath, despair rose and finally spilled out. This is the first time someone has looked outside my son's problem to see how it affects the whole family.

The suffering from birth

Within hours of his birth, Angus began to sniff and sneeze. Then the cry turned into screams as the small legs kicked violently.

The mucus spilled out of his nose and whenever I was about to put him down, he would choke on the phlegm. I can't put you down on the bed, so it stays on my husband and my shoulder almost every time of the day. We are all exhausted.

Besides Angus, I have another two-year-old son, Archie. My mother-in-law had to come to look at it, because Augus had occupied all my time and concentration. My husband, after a day of struggling with his work, returned home and held Augus all night.

By 3 months of age, Angus's longest sleep was only 20 minutes, and then he started screaming. If we put it down when the baby is asleep, he will wake up and start to stop breathing. So there is no way we can sleep.

Baby Angus and mother.(Photo: DailyMail)

Useless search

The local hospital where I lived had some tests when Angus was a few weeks old and found that he had acid reflux from his stomach, but only mildly, and they said "that is not the problem". All requests for our further tests were rejected.

I asked them if Angus was allergic to what I ate because he could not tolerate cow's milk, but they said that because he was breast-fed, it was not a problem. No one seemed to be interested in our miserable screaming child, as if I were an overly worried mother, nervous and inflated.

I was told that "there were a few little kids screaming too much", that it was "nothing unusual", that the boy would grow up.

There were times when I was so tired that I thought that perhaps this problem came from myself. I even had to quit driving because I couldn't wake up on the steering wheel.

The turning point until Angus was 13 weeks old, in desperation, we went to a private pediatrician. He immediately listed a baby pain reliever, gently but surely explaining that this would be good for both mother and child, as both of us were exhausted.

The medicine helped Angus sleep for about 8 hours. He awoke and screamed again after half an hour. We were again advised to increase the dose at night, at an unaffected level. After that, the doctor also advised us to go to Glasgow's pediatric specialist for a medical examination.

The step changed

From the moment we got there, the situation was different: we were taken around, introduced to the staff, and I was even seated in a special chair to support breastfeeding by I have chronic back pain due to holding the baby.

And yet, when Angus screamed, the nurses took her away so I could rest. Our pediatrician was more enthusiastic, listening carefully to Angus's history and giving a series of tests.

First scan . Thanks to heaven, he didn't have any tumors, but that didn't bring any answers either. Followed by X-rays, blood tests and many other body tests, but still not clear what disease.

However, the doctor said he found Angus to be quieter when he was hungry before each search process - and it made him doubt why a child would be happier when he starved for eight hours compared to when It is eaten. He and two other doctors asked to observe when I fed him. As they watched, Angus sucked on his mother and began to stretch his body violently, screaming in pain.

Checking the baby, they confirmed that there was something unusual in the throat or palate. The problem seems to be in my milk. Mothers are always advised that breastmilk is best for babies, and can help reduce problems such as asthma, allergies, etc.

Although this is an undisputed fact, the breast milk expert explained that she occasionally sees babies like Angus rejecting breastmilk and screaming restlessly. Your baby's diapers are full of phlegm and water. Apparently she reacted to something in her breast milk.

The first step doctors recommend is to make a " clean " diet that includes only fish, rice and vegetables. In a week, we found that Angus babies are getting longer and more awake during that time.

Within a month, the difference was impressive: at the age of 17, she opened her eyes, began to smile and first met the world around her.

Then, one morning, when she was lying on her mother's knees, I suddenly realized that she was awake and having fun for almost an hour! It sounds ridiculous, but it's a huge step forward for all of us, and makes me cry.

After that, I still decided to breastfeed my baby to boost my immune system, but at the same time maintain a strict diet and sometimes, when I suddenly ate something the baby could not digest, we would There are 3-4 hell days.

The doctor and we have listed a list of things that everyone in my family is allergic to, like milk, eggs, beans, kiwifruit, watermelon, apples .

We still have physical problems. At the age of 5 months, Angus stopped screaming enough to look around, we realized that both her eyes were squinted. However, with the overall improvement in health, the baby's eyesight is the same, and now he has almost normal eyes.

Her ears also made us nervous, but then one day, when she was nearly 2 years old, she asked the first question: "What language is she?". Now, it has been more than 2 years since Angus was given a special diet. We tried to offer other foods but they still could not tolerate milk, soy or gluten. However, he learned how to live with his diet.

I also have another baby, now 6 months old. He also started screaming and vomiting phlegm when I ate milk, but this time, we knew right away what to do. We cut all the milk from our menu, and 4 days later the baby will calm down.

Sadly, there are still very few allergy specialists in our hospital. We were fortunate to find a doctor with an open mind to see what other than the symptoms that books say.

That's why I wrote this article: so that babies and their parents don't have to suffer the same suffering as we do, just because they don't detect serious food allergies.