Interesting about colic possibly being IBS in infants but I tend to think otherwise. I'm not really sure of my reasoning...I don't have any medical research to back it up, but from experience I can say that my first born (premature by just over 5 weeks) had it horribly for 7 months and still spit up solid foods at age one. I had only nursed him for about 6 weeks and I swear that when he had the breast milk from my freezer he was fine. It did coincide with the 6 week marker for maybe colic starting, but like I said...breast milk for a day...and then fine. Without it, hypoallergenic/soy/whatever formula...threw it up usually and wretched in pain with the arched back obviously in tremendous pain. (For those of you who have gone through it, you know what I'm talking about. Poor thing:() So doc suggested Lactaid for the next year (since at the time I thought I was lactose intolerant), he was fine, then went to cow's milk at age 2 and has had a rock-hard stomach since (except if he eats too much junk food which he is not used to).
I swore I would nurse my daughter longer b/c I was petrified history would repeat itself...so I did...and she had the nightly hours of crying, but just the typical baby stuff...I wouldn't classify as colic at all. I know breast fed babies can be colicky too..but I guess I was lucky that I could eat most anything.
I do think that digestive problems are related in families (they call it the family curse on my mother's side...my great-uncle has always traveled with t.p. in his car trunk  ), but as for newborns, I think it is an immaturity of their system (if not a recognized allergy). Like for the same reasons they spit up (some lots, almost all at least a little)...that muscle (whatever it's called) that holds the food down is not that strong yet so it comes back up.
Just my opinion....no need for debate. Whatever it is, what a shame it is that us parents can just stand by and watch them in pain. In retrospect, I should have taken my son to a gastro- to maybe go on prilosec or something. He took levsin and the simethicone for the gas but they didn't help.
Anyhow, sorry this turned out to be so lengthy. To the original poster, I hope you can figure out what will soothe your little one.
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