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Is anyone else having trouble weaning their babies/children of colief? My son has been on colief since Xmas just gone and is now 7 months old. We have tried numerous times to wean him off, but to no avail. He has been on solids for nearly 2 months now, and I'm finding that he's taking less and less formula (we offer him 2oz at breakfast dinner and tea but he only has a sip with each one, then he has a 6oz bottle at bedtime and he sometimes has a 5oz bottle at 6am). So obviously need to get him off before he's on no formula! I'm also finding that he can't stomache anything containing milk, which I'm asuming is because of the lactose in it. Can I put colief in milk?

I'm really hoping that there is someone else with experiencing or have experienced the same problem.

Jo

Hi Jo,

I used Colief when my son was an infant and I found the same problem. Unfortunately it wasn't until we put him on cows milk that we finally weaned him off. I can totally sympathize not just because the dependency issue but it works out costly too.

Have you tried reducing the drops you use? Also, when I spoke to my HV she advised that we gradually wean him onto cows milk (this was early at 10 months) - ensuring that he had a well balanced diet.

Hope this helps.

Elaine

Elaine,

Thank you. At least I know now that it's not me!!!
Luckily for us, our doctor prescribed the colief, and have since put it on repeat. So we've only actually paid for 2 bottles.

I've tried numerous times to reduce the amount of drops. Everything is fine for a day or two, but then he starts being in pain as soon as he takes the first suck from then bottle. We put the drops back and with the first sniff of the bottle he's fine again.

I've spoken to a few HV about it, but no one seems to know anything about colief!!! I did speak to a new HV yesterday, who said she was going to try and find something out. She phoned this morning, left a message saying that she had spoken to a phamasist and they suggested that we reduce the drops in the day and leave drops the same at night. Then when that is fine to reduce drops at night. Now that's ok if I could reduce during the day!!!!! So back to square one!!


Thanks again

Jo

Nope, you're not alone!! It is frustrating and I totally sympathize. Adam was much the same and took a while to adjust to the reduction in drops.

When Eleanor came along she had similar colicky symptoms but I didn't want to go back to using Colief so I put her on the Cow and Gate Comfort milk. Worked out fine, though she experienced very loose bowels..

Since coming off the formula its been a complete reversal and the poor mite is often constipated. Ah well, you just can't win!!

Anyway, all the best and hope you manage to wean your little man off the colief soon.

Elaine

My little man was on colief for about 10 weeks, but then he was diagnosed lactose intolerant & has been on wysoy since 12 weeks old which i get on prescription for him....

Alot of Gps dont like testing for lactose issues & i had to push the test involves me constantly checking his nappies til he had soiled then i had 1 hour to get the stool sample to our local hospital which on a good run takes upto 30 mins to get too but the test came back 2 days later which proved he was lactose intolerant I have since had a daughter who I queried lactose issues with when she was 2 weeks old & well is now on a combination of wysoy & breastfeeding..... Lucy has'nt been formally diagnosed but has been alot better since the change in milk.....

I would push for the test hun incase it is lactose related

Good luck
Joanne x

Joanne

Thanks, We have asked the doctor once if he was lactose intolerant, but they said a big fat no, and that he wasn't showing signs of being so!. I have a good friend who's 3rd son is lactose intolerant and again my son was no where as bad as her son. So I started to doubt it myself. We're going to give it one more try, and if that fails then we are going to take him to docs and demand testing.


How was your son when you were weaning him off colief?

A big congratulations on your little baby girl. Hope all is well for you all.

Love jo