switching to soy- stool details TMI

my girls have been having frequent stools all weekend long and a horrible diaper rash. after trying different concoctions of creams and diaper rash ointments and yeast meds, their bottoms are finally improving. elena has been having mucus in her stools and i called the pedi this morning to tell them. they said to switch them to soy products to see if that helps. obviously we'll get soy milk, but what other dairy products do they have in soy? do they have soy yogurt? they love yogurt and i hate to take that away from them. the nurse also recommended starting them on culturelle, a probiotic. anyone ever used this? thanks in advance!

 

I get the soy yogurt at Trader Joe's. I'm not sure if you have one in your area. They have fruit flavors. Our supermarket only sells Silk vanilla and blueberry. Their fav is the TJ's raspberry. We just do soy milk and yogurt. We did get some soy ice cream, that they aren't all that into.

 

is there such thing as soy cheese? they LOVE cheese...

 

I have seen soy cheese at my local supermarket (it's near the tofu). Good luck!

 

We buy the organic soy milk and not the Silk because our DS gets very loose stools from the Silk. We also buy the original flavor because the vanilla has sugar as a top 3 ingredient. I am trying to avoid sugar for as long as possible until they get hooked on veggies.

Watch out for the soy cheese if this is milk allergy related switch. We bought it and I never checked the label figuring it was soy. Then DS broke out with his milk rash around his mouth. We gave him his RX antihistamine and then I looked at the soy cheese label; second ingredient - casein (milk protein) :grr:

We also did the probiotic when DD had colic real bad. It helped her and she had very regular BM when on it. I take a probiotic daily as well in capsule form, but for infants & toddlers it comes in a powder that you take 1/4 tsp of to mix into milk. Just remember it needs to be kept refrigerated.

We also tried the soy yogurt and it is the one food both DD & DS refuse to eat. I couldn't get myself to try it, it was kinda gray :blink: .

 

check the nutritional label on the soy milk... there are a LOT of varieties. some have only 7 or so grams of Sugar... but then I accidently got one of the Very Vanilla Fortified for Kids and it has 16 grams of sugar! wow!! anyway, I had been excited about it b/c it had 130 cal. instead of just 100 and I'm trying to increase their calories.

I had the same reactions when I tried to add in some whole milk... and now I'm trying to get back to the soy that we've been on.

Yes, there is Soy cheese, I haven't done much of it yet.

As for yogurt... my doctor said that for our (maybe) milk related issues, that regular yogurt was still ok to give... that it doesn't have as much lactose or something... it has lots of good live bacteria for digestion... but I'm sure soy would be good too if that works.

I hope you get the issues resolved! I've been dealing with it for too many weeks now too.

 

Anyone ever had the opposite experience? When the babies started soy milk at 12 mos, their poop became runnier (sorry TMI) and now Hunter has a bad diaper rash. Could it be the soy???? the sugar content maybe?

 

not sure if you saw my post just before yours... yes, check the sugar content on the brand/kind of soy you are getting. I found a big difference between some of them. the ones with 16gms of sugare are as much as juice... there are some soys that have lower like 6 gms of sugar.

 

maybell....I just checked and the sugar is 7g...not too bad. increased their protein intake (one of the previous suggestions) and our poopy problem seems to have resolved itself! Thanks!

 

I wanted to add something else... almost a month ago our problems started when I tried to start cow's milk... then I quit it since it gave them diarrhea... but then to compensate I gave them more soy milk than I had... and the problem persisted... then my doc.. recommended additional protein so I added lots of tofu and other high protein items... well... I finally realized too much of any one thing isn't good... I had toooo much soy. so with that all said I thought I'd share.

I've cut the soy down to just 1 4oz bottle of soy milk in the afternoon, and thankfully we're back to normal... yay!

 

If your switch to Soy milk becomes permanent, I've read that you'll have to add fat into their diet in other areas because soy milk doesn't have the fat that toddlers need from whole milk.

 

makes sense, the calories are only 100 vs. 150 and I think the fat is almost half of whole milk too. good to keep that in mind.