Pale green poo on Karicare Soy - normal?

Wow!! I just discovered this section! Thank you for starting a separate place for babies with allergy/intolerance! Bravo!

My lil girl is 4.5 months old. She was breastfed for 4 months. Around 2.5 months, we began to notice specks of blood in her poos. We rushed to the GP, who said to give a stool sample. We did, and strangely the stool test showed no blood!

Well, a few days later, we had another blood-tinged nappy. Again GP asked for a stool sample - again tests came back negative for both blood and bacreria! GP said not to worry and since baby is healthy, its not an issue. Again, 3 days later, she had another blood-tinged nappy. This time, I insisted that GP do something, coz its NOT NORMAL for babies to have blood in their poos!!! She referred us to Starship finally...and we got an appt abt 1 month later. The paediatrician listened to our story, and we even showed him photos of the poos (so he'd believe us!!). He said it seemed like a milk protein intolerance, and advised me to stop all Dairy products in my diet. We did and after 3 weeks, my baby's poos were back to normal!!

With a history of bad breast infections, I decided to wean our bubba onto formula. Our GP suggested Karicare Soy. So, we're doing abt 3 feeds of Soy formula every 4 hours. For the past few days, we've noticed that her poos are a very pale green and pasty (they used to be mustardy/yellow and pasty). Not sure if its a bad reaction to Soy or whether its normal for babies on Soy formula?? Any advice abt this would be a big help!

My baby was on Karicare Soy for a little while, we found him to have an intolerance to it and got severe eczema after a buildup in his system. But he did have normal poo's, just tinged green. He was on solids by this stage, so that thickened it up (not pasty).

I think I would feel ok with green poos, just make sure it's not wind causing it....and watch for other clues like upset tummy, rash, unsettled etc. Lot's of kids have funny coloured poos, and I've heard you have to look at the consistancy rather then colour? I might be wrong tho :)

To be honest, when we changed formula's to neocate, it became "sloppier" but his rash cleared up. He has tested negative for soy allergy but definitely cannot tolerate it, even in small amounts. Skin prick test soon for him!

I would just be careful with soy, as often when allergic to dairy they are can become allergic to or are already allergic to soy as the proteins are not that disimilar. Green poos can be a sign of an allergy. Personally I would be pushing to have baby put on pepti junior or neocate, you will need to see paed to get the funding for it though, GPs can't authorise it.

Plus there is another concern with soy as well, I can't remember exactly what but I think it was something to do with effecting hormones. The tins have a warning about only using under medical advise but I don't think they go into why.

2crazykids - have a look at the allergy section in full, I posted a thread about allegy type, it'll help you understand. My boy is on neocate but didn't skin prick but definitely can't tolerate wheat or dairy. We are testing soy at the moment & have had a poohy nappy every single change!

Also yes consistency is definitely the key.


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Glad she hasn't had any rashes or reflux

It took a few months for DD's poos to change from that colour and she is on lots of different solids so that probably helps. I remember being freaked to and mentioning it to a couple of mums and they reckon it was fine and I guess so long as DD is happy and not showing any signs of discomfort, its got to be good

pooing less on formula is common, if they are going at least once a day it should be all good though.

I would not be happy with the colour though, green poos are a sign of an allergy and babies that are allergic to dairy are quite often allergic to soy as well, we were advised to not even introduce soy till after 12 months. I would also look into the soy formula, it's really not that great for them to be on even without the other allergy issues. I think it would pay you to ask your gp about pepti junior/neocate and getting a referal to a paed, preferable one that knows about allergies.

Just had to skim back up to see how old your DD is. Yeh definitely try and get a referral and testing done. Didn't realise how young she was. My dr is an idiot and never ordered tests even though requested and never gave us a referral and it wasn't until she was 15 months and sick all the time that we got a diagnoses. She is on Vitasoy kids soy milk, but she is over 1. Your little DD would be better off with neocate like cuppatea suggested. Would also be a good idea to keep a daily diary so you can show your gp.

If you want to know more about soy and how bad it is for you have a look at this site, it has a quick run down list to read and lots of studys/articles to read through.

Great to hear it went well Ode2Joy and also great idea re the vanilla. We tried DD on neocate and she hated it. Wish I had thought of that lol.