Rashes

Since Keston's turned 6mths old, we've introduced Healthy Times brown rice cereal. Also, we've changed his FM which we use for supplementary feeds to stage 2. Keston is now willing to take the cereal, but only minute amounts. I'm not sure if its cos he doesn't like the taste or he just isn't hungry.....and I haven't had time to buy something else for him to try. Cereal is supposed to be v heaty so it's recommended that babies drink more water. BUT (yes, that's a big but) Keston absolutely refuses to drink water. Give him water in a bottle, he'd greedily take a couple of sucks and when his tongue registers it's tasteless water, he refuses to swallow and all the water will flow out. After which he gives us a disgusted face and simply refuses to open his mouth! We've only managed to feed him a couple of ml of water only by spoonfeeding (more like wetting his lips) or by syringing.

The new FM he's now taking is Similac Follow-on. Prior to that, he was on Enfalac but since we had a sample can of Similac, just take lor. However, shortly after the introduction of Similac, we found many pimply spots on his forehead...so ugly! So I thought must be heaty lah....and applied Lucas PawPaw Ointment on the spots. It didn't help and he even got abit of spots on his chest. So I itchy fingers, decided to moisturise him by applying Hazeline Snow. The very next day when I was wiping him down before bedtime, I was horrified to find the area from his chest to his stomache full of angry red spots! Wah liao! There were like 5 spots the day before, and it multiplied to like 100!! So heart pain even though he didn't seem to feel anything.

The doc says it looks like an allergy, possibly to the milk powder or cereal. He says it doesn't look like it's cream related. He also said it could be due to the weather or heatiness. Ermmm basically abit inconclusive lah.

Anyway, we're just applying Calamine lotion to cool him down now. And we've stopped Similac for the moment. We're trying out Isomil 2, which is soy-based and supposed to help with allergies. Ironically, Keston seems allergic to Isomil! Right after drinking Isomil, he'll excrete a very smelly watery poo! Haiyoh! So mafan!

Anyways, at 6mths 2wks, Keston weighs 7.85kg. Still very lightweight although he looks big!