My baby is lactose intolerant, my Dr told me to stop breastfeeding for 8 weeks, I think is to much,?

I live in a country where the child care is not very trusty, I have a 5 month old boy who is lactose intolerant. We stayerd in the hospital for about 5 days due to a wrong diagnostic. Now we r home, but the Dr told me not to breastfed for 8 weeks. What should I do. Anyone a baby like mine plase give me advice

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Is he allergic to your milk? Or is he intolerant of cow's milk? I assume you have breastfed for the past 5 months, were you also giving cowmilk based formula or only your milk? If your baby is not thriving on your milk (i.e. he is losing weight, lethargic, sallow-skinned, unresponsive) then you need to find a non-lactose based formula and start feeding him. If the doc thinks breastfeeding can resume after eight weeks than get a breastpump and start bottling your milk and freezing it. Try to keep up a good flow by pumping at least 3 times a day. By the time you start breastfeeding again he should be just starting babyfoods and those will suppliment his diet also. I wish I had more info. Good luck on this. I breastfed for 13 months, it is a wonderful gift to your child if you are able to give it. If not just love and snuggle and feed your baby whatever you can.

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I agree with you... That's a REALLY long time. Your baby will be weaned from the breast if he goes that long. Especially because he's older.

I'm not a doctor, but that sounds absurd to me! People who are lactose intolerant don't tolerate cow's milk. Human milk is for human babies! That just doesn't make sense to me! Did your baby have a reaction to your breastmilk, or was it to supplemental feeding with baby formula?

Like I said, I'm NOT an expert. Perhaps you could get some answers from webmd.com?
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Use lactaid drops in your milk and bottle feed him. Why did he tell you not to breastfeed? Lactose intolerance has to do with bottle formulas, surely not your own milk. I had lactose intolerant children and I breastfed all of mine. You need to find out exactly why the doctor told you that!

The first girl that wrote in sounds like she knows what she's talking about, but there's one thing I'd like to add that she didn't elaborate on: if you do follow the doctor's orders and want to breastfeed again after the 8 weeks, make sure you pump milk as often as you would normally breastfeed, or as she said, 3 times a day. Otherwise your body could stop producing milk. It only took a few days after I stopped breastfeeding for my milk to start to decrease in volume. The more you use, the more the body produces. The less you use, the less your body produces.
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I think you should not worry. What your doctor said is right.. because my baby had the same problem when he was around 4 to 5 months old.. the doctor had suggested me to give him novalac or babylac ph which is lactose free and to stop breastfeeding till the baby is free from diarrhoea. i gave him novalac ph and atleast twice or thrice in a day water boiled with arrowroot powder and neolyte to help in water loss. It really worked and in two weeks I started breastfeeding. So even if not 8 weeks, when you feel your baby is back to normal you can start breastfeeding.

A baby *cannot* be lactose intolerant!! It is impossible. I would suggest you ask your doctor to show you a *properly conducted* medical study that shows that some babies have lactose intolerance--there *are* none. Lactose intolerance usually develops in young adulthood--but *never* before age 3-4.

If the baby is having milk-related trouble, it is most likely an allergy to animal milks in the mother's diet. Try eliminating all dairy products from *your* diet for at least 2 weeks, and see if the problems improve. But under no circumstances should you stop nursing. Whatever is bothering your son cannot get better and will probably be worse if you stop nursing.

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