Formula Allergy?

It sounds like baby acne. Both of my children had this when they were a few weeks/months old. It lasts a couple of weeks and gets worse when you try to treat it with lotions. We were advised to bathe as normal just using water to clean thier face. Soaps and lotions only irritate the skin and will not clear it up. It resolves on it's own as you pregnancy hormones lessen in her body. As to an allergy to the formula, I'd read the ingredients in comparison to what you were feeding her and see if they are similar to what you are feeding her now. If so, then it's not the ready to eat formula. Sounds like she is better and it's probably the baby acne, which was aggravated by the lotion. Best Wishes!

My daughter was hospitalized due to diahrea when we fed her the ready to feed enfamil formula. At the hospital they told me there is a difference bettween ready to feed and powder the ready to feed is thicker if you look at the formula you will notice it is a different color the powder is a lighter color when mixed and the ready to feed is a darker color with a thicker consistancy so yes it is possible she is having a reaction to the ready to feed. I hope this helps!

Yes it is possible. My son's milk allergy didn't come out for several months, since I was primarily BFing and the supplemental formula hadn't "built up" in his body yet. After switching to soy, his skin (which had at this times looked like I scalded him in hot water) began to clear. We were told though, by our allergist and also our pediatrician, that formula is trial and error and for a sensitive kid, their body notices slight changes and will therefore react. Once you find one that works, stick with it until at least 6 months before you start alternating brands or kinds.

when my son was that little his face looked like that to and i asked his pedi and he said that it was exzema or how ever you spell it (sorry) but anyways the only way it goes away is med. also try to keep it dry the more it gets wet the worse it is. my son is 5 and he still gets it. i hope that it gets better soon.

My son went through this just one year ago. He is allergic to the milk based formula. You sound like you have the same thing going on that he went through. You might want to try soy formula and see if it completely clears her up. If it does then she is having a reaction the milk protein. The reason her face is broken out is because she is probably drolling in her sleep and it is the time of the year where that is going to make her skin look like that. Call the pedi, try and talk to a nurse to see if they have any recommendations, they might be able to give you some samples to try thought out the weekend before buying a big can of it.

Call your doctor. S/he is the best to consult about what might be going on.
-C.

Seems unlikely it is the formula. Both are dairy based, right? There are no significant ingredients that are different. The weather warmed up a bit, with it the humidity, so maybe it is humidity. Both my boys get bad face rashes in dry winter conditions. Lots of lotion helps. Cetaphil. Love Cetaphil. My older boy was so bad by his first Christmas his face started cracking and bleading. This with constant lotion. Finally had to get meds. Talk to your doctor.

Don't know if you're doing a combo of breastfeeding and formula or if your baby is on formula only, but either way, that rash you're describing is a HUGE tip-off that there's likely some allergy going on. With my son, we thought the same things... oh, a little rash, maybe baby acne, maybe it's just that it is dry and winter, etc. -- but then it got to the point where, when he was only 4 weeks old, his face just WASN'T getting better. It was SOOOO red and dry, and he was rubbing his poor little cheeks back and forth on our shoulders as we held him (because his little cheeks itched so badly). Ugh, it was awful... his sleep was terrible, he seemed crampy and his poops were gassy, smelly, and mucousy. And he was 100% breastfed, too!

Turns out for my son that these symptoms were an allergy to BOTH cow's milk protein and soy protein - as soon as I stopped eating those (and therefore no more of that in my breastmilk for him to get!), his sweet face cleared up and became so smooth and soft, his poops became normal breastfed baby poops, and his sleep GREATLY improved. He was just overall a MUCH happier baby.

Here's some good information that applies to formula-fed babies as well as breastfed babies:
http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/food-sensitivity.html

And I wouldn't "wait 6 months" or anything crazy like that - if your baby is having a bad reaction to their food, and you switch to something else, you SHOULD see some serious changes within 1-2 weeks. If NOT, then I'd be asking for hypoallergenic formula (if giving formula) or I'd be eliminating the most allergenic foods from my own diet (if breastfeeding).

Last but not least, if you are breastfeeding but supplementing with formula due to weight gain issues, *please* know that there are OTHER WAYS of getting more calories to your baby *without* using formula (if you're breastfeeding + giving formula, simply removing the formula AND replacing that supplement with pumped breastmilk, *that alone* could solve the allergy problem!). You can rent an electric breastpump (or buy a manual breastpump) for cheaper than the cost of formula, and instead you can pump your own breastmilk and feed it by bottle to your baby. No need for formula, and no need to mess with your supply (giving formula and NOT pumping is very likely to mean a decrease in your milk supply, and it could possibly ruin your breastfeeding relationship UNLESS you are really being strict about pumping each time you give formula). If you are interested in continuing to breastfeed, and you want help with figuring out how to keep up your supply and wean off the formula while still getting your baby all the calories she needs, contact your local LLL leader - they're volunteer moms who have breastfed their own babies, they're FREE, and most of the LLL leaders and the moms I've met at the meetings have been really nice. If you talk to a leader that you don't really like, CALL A DIFFERENT LEADER! :) Here are some contact #s for your area:
http://www.lllohio.org/groups/toledo.html

Best of luck - I hope you are able to find out what's bothering your new daughter ASAP!

I have had the same problem and my twins are now on Similac Alimentum it is a formula for babies with food allergies and Colic but my twins are NOT colic You should ask the doctor about that formulaIt has started to work for mine and it should work for you I have tried every formula there is and they both were just to sensitive with their stomachs Please let me know how it go and if it works I would try the Similac Isomil first then ask the doctor about the other