Aptamil Gold+ De-Lact Questions & Answers

Have you tried anti-colic bottles? I'd suggest the tommee tippee bran and this formula

My son is 5 months now and we have been using delact for 3 months, I have seen the pediatrician about lactose intolerance and she suggested to start at 6 months with a tiny spoon of soy yoghurt and work our way to a spoon and if there is no reaction then try with soy milk. Not sure in your case but I would probably see a pediatrician about it.
Good luck!

Thanks Dom. Saw the paediatrician around then as well and have been giving her yoghurt / cheese etc and she is fine. Around 9 months we started cows milk with Weetbix and no vomiting. My paediatrician didn’t mention soy milk but will definitely use that if my daughter reacts to cows milk

Hi Jessica. Lactose intolerance in babies under 12 months is usually secondary, so related to a virus or bacteria reducing the amount of lactase enzyme produced by the gut for a 3-4 week period. Lactose is the main carbohydrate in breast milk and it maximises calcium absorption from babies milk to support bone and tooth mineralisation. Lactose intolerance is a dose dependent reaction and does not cause any gut damage, so starting with small amount of whole milk or milk formula (which you can mix in the same bottle with lactose free milk/formula) and increasing the amount of whole milk feed as lactase production in babies gut increases. Note that yoghurt and cheese contain almost no lactose due to the fermentation process (lactose is converted to lactic acid) so are likely to be well tolerated. Babies with lactose intolerance will often tolerate about half a cup of milk before symptoms become distressing.
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Never Heard of it helping constipation but I know it’s gentle on the tummy so u might as well give it a go and see if it works or not. Not sure u tried Dulose for constipation?

I was planning to swap my bub over to the regular aptamil gold when he’s around 6 months and has a better digestive system so maybe try the stage 3 aptamil gold?

My daughter is nearly 13 months and I am still using it. She only has 2 bottles a day and water for the rest. I will just reduce by 30mls progressively until the bottles are phased out

Hi there. We have used it from 3 months old and bubba is now 9 months. The docs are quite happy with him continuing until formula is no longer needed. Every baby is different tho so maybe check with your GP :)

Nan LI is great ! :)

We had the same problem at first but the benefit to our son from the De Lact formula far outweighed the slight constipation. We were advised by the nurse to add an extra 10ml of water to the bottle, or give 20-30ml of water between bottles to get things moving. Not sure how old your baby is but when ours started solids, we feed him a small portion of puréed pears everyday and he had no issues with constipation from then on. Good luck, it's not easy finding the right formula but the De Lact was the one for us.

I am a first time mum to a 3 month old baby girl who I have on the AR formula and as its a thicker formula also made my baby very very constipated. I find giving bubs some water 1 and a half to two hours after a morning, afternoon and night bottle (60mls in total) keeps her stools soft. If your baby isn't used to drinking water you may want to try weak rooibos tea which is a little sweet and has amazing properties! Check them out here: http://www.theteatalk.com/rooibos-tea-for-babies.html

I only give my baby one tea bottle a day and that's usually her afternoon "water" bottle.

You may want to try just two water bottles and see if your baby needs more or less.

Hope this helps :)

I could be wrong but I thought that if your baby has lactose intolerance then lactose builds up in their system. So if you were to switch formulas it would have to be for every feed? It took about 5 days when we switched from Aptimal HA to the De Lact for our little man to make a full improvement, but those 5 days were like a rare good day on the previous formula, if that makes sense. He was a totally different, happier baby on the De Lact.

I agree with manda21. Took my boy about 1 day to notice a difference and by about the third day he was a completely different baby again a happy and content baby :-) i would recommend just feeding your baby only 1 type of formula the de-lact one. Hope everything works out for u :-D

Hi with a baby under 3 months old i wouldn't keep the formula... i defnitely keep it up to 2 hours for my older baby, but not when they are that young. If your bubba gets a bug it will be a lot more serious than when they are a bit older. Is the Formula helping your baby's constipation and unsettledness? If Lactose is not the problem (ie this formula doesn't help) I highly recommend Karicare Allerpro. Milk protein is broken down, so easier to tolerate, esp for such a young bubba. Good luck!

i have had this problem too its frustrating bub wont drink a full bottle which he use to gulp down also not eating his veggies (maybe due to upset tummy) bad nights and very windy explosive stools. he was doing great before they changed the formulation. Im thinking of changing brands to see if that fixes the problem...

I changed formula to S26 Lactose free and it was worse. Let me know if you find another one that works. Thanks for you feed back. At least Im not on my own.

Hi there, I've actually found that my bub tolerated the new formula very well, but now that we've had to go back to the old version because that's all we can find, he will only drink half the bottle and seems to like it less (although he never had a problem with it when he was on it before). So maybe it's just adjusting to the change in formula rather than the formula itself? I know a lot of people had this kind of issue when NAN changed its formula last year (I think it even made the news) but not sure what the outcome was there. Might be irrelevant anyway if Karicare can no longer supply either version of de-lact? Although I definitely don't want to move to S26. My son does NOT tolerate that stuff well at all. How frustrating...