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My daughter was born on 5/5/06. Following 3 months of extreme fussiness, painful cries and incolsolablility, her GI doctor put her on Neocate as an experiment (try it for two weeks and see if there is improvement). We've been on it for about 5 days now. The first two days were great! What an improvement. Now, however, she's back to being fussy, spitting up (something she never did before) all the time and gassiness. Once she spits up or passes gas she's more comfortable and stops crying/fidgeting until it starts all over again. Her doctor also has us thickening her formula with Beechnut rice cereal (a change from the Gerber rice cereal that we had her on before). Any ideas as to why she would suddenly develop these symptoms and how we might eleviate them?

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