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Organic vs Mass Market

I have bought organic cereals so far for Jingyi and thought why not try the mass market packs from the Supermart since its not sustainable and convenient to keep buying the more expensive organic foodstuff anyway. So I went to Giant and bought 2 packs of visually yummy cereals. I was hesitant as they conduct skim milk powder, diary products that JY has not ingested other than indrectly through my breastmilk.

Well, the following day at noon, i got calls from home. My mum told me JYdevelop a bad case of rashes around her mouth and body after her meal of cereal (new mass market brand), vomited and diarrhoea. Even her water & EBM got vomited out after that as well..practically she could not contain any food in her stomach the whole morning.

So i rushed home immediately, abandoning my meetings and even my pump at work. The poor girl was slumped against my mum, listless, pale and pasty and barely could work out some whimpers. All it takes is a few hugs and her favourite food to perk her up and elicit some activity a few hours later, Dr Loke pointed out that it's common for some babies to be allergic to a protein found in cow's milk and some to even goat's milk or soy's milk. It's all about trial and error for trying out what triggers off the allergy. He further advices to stick to organic cereal as the quality of mass market brands are not that good. sigh, seems like it's the only way now and to stick the occasional diary products in to JY to test her allergy reaction.

posted by Ling @ 10:02 pm