Green Poop and Allergies

Jackson was 4 months old when my mom and I were out shopping we stopped to change a quick diaper but it just wasn't normal.  There was blood.  Jackson had blood in his stool and it freaked me out.  Once we got home I called his pediatrician and they had me keep an eye on it for a day or two, to see if it got any better. Sadly it didn't and his stools were quite green and slimy moucousy (gross I know).  We then started testing his stool at the pediatrician office for blood and talked with the doctor and we talked about the possibility of it being MSPI, or Milk Soy Protein Intolerance.  More on MSPI here: Complete Children's Health- MSPI

Typically this would be discovered or have more symptoms prior to him being four months but that is when ours presented.  Jackson wasn't typical fussy, gassy with the intolerance but would have terrible stools and would have eczema on his face from it,  he would also sound congested (which we found was irritation).  We slowly tried to adjust my diet because I was breastfeeding Jackson.  I was willing to adjust my diet with whatever I had to do, but we started easy.  We started eliminating obvious dairy from my diet.  So ice cream, cheese, cream cheese, yogurt, milk, etc was off the plate.  However, we would allow it to remain in if it was baked in.  We didn't have to read labels and just had to wait for it to clear my milk and his system.  Great MSPI Menus here: MSPI Mama

Amazingly it takes roughly 4 weeks for the dairy to clear both his system and my milk. So we waited and tested his stools after we thought it had been long enough.  At 4 weeks there was still a minimal amount in his stools and his stools were still slightly green but looked much improved.  The pediatrician suggested waiting two more weeks to see if it cleared completely or if we needed to eliminate more out of my diet.  Thankfully two weeks later he was clear.

We continued this diet of obvious dairy elimination for the first year of breastfeeding, with doing a trial at 9 months old of dairy in my diet to see how he would respond and sadly back to the bad diapers.  At one year old with instruction from our doctor we trialed diary directly to Jackson. He got hives around his mouth and anywhere that the milk touched.  At this point we went to a local Allergy doctor to have a work up of dairy and eggs.  We had also found that Jackson would get hives when he had scrambled eggs.

At the appointment we found that Jackson was allergic to both dairy and eggs.  We were given an Epi-Pen for him and told to avoid these things in his diet and to continue my obvious dairy elimination diet as long as we were breastfeeding.  We continued breastfeeding until he was two years old.  At which point we went back to the Allergist and tested his dairy allergy and found that he had grown out of the dairy allergy.  He still is mildly allergic to eggs and so we continue to stay away from eggs in his diet.

We feel blessed in all of this that it wasn't worse, we are blessed that he never had a serious reaction.  Allergies are nothing to mess with and I would constantly worry he would get the wrong child's food at daycare, or grab someones plate/drink and have a serious reaction.

We go back to the allergist later this week to test for egg allergy again and I hope that he continues to grow out of the allergies.