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Coping with Colic
How to Help Your Baby – and Yourself
By Lisa Hurt Kozarovich
An allergy to the proteins in cow's milk or soy milk, or lactose intolerance (together these account for about 10 percent of colic cases).
Solution: Switch the baby to a hypoallergenic formula or, if breastfeeding, have the mother start eliminating products from her diet, beginning with dairy, and make sure the baby is getting enough of the filling hind milk. Give the formula change a week to work and the breastfeeding changes two weeks.
Cause: An immature gastrointestinal tract system that keeps the baby from properly digesting food or leads to the baby repeatedly spitting it up, to be fussy when they're eating or to continually swallow hard (about 5 percent of cases).
Solution:
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