Baby with Milk Protien Allergy

I have a friend who's daughter has that allergie and afew others including soy so she has been giving her rice milk since she is 15 months and everything has been great including her daughters additude she used to be cranky and easily upset not anymore thanks to the switch from cows milk to rice.

My daughter has a milk allergy also, she was on soy formula until she was around 2. We slowly started her on soy milk at meals, first at daycare for lunch and then dinner. And lastly breakfast. She was drinking cold formula towards the end.
She drinks soy milk now. She can tolerate some milk products like cheese and ice cream.

We do rice milk and it works great. It won't have enough fat though so ask your doctor about that. Our daughter would get bad eczema from milk and soy milk. Generally kids who have allergies to milk can't tolerate soy either. Good luck.

Our 2 year old daughter has a milk allergy, as well. She couldn't tolerate soy either ---guess 50% of kids that can't do milk can't take soy either so not uncommon. We are on rice milk (enriched) and she absolutely loves it!!

I think there are alot of misconceptions when it comes to babies and allergies. Lots of parents wind up stopping nursing and putting htier babies on expensive formula when they didn't need to becaue thier doctor told them it was a dairy allergy. Not saying its not uncommon, it for sure is, but alot of times the expensive formula isn't necessary.

My oldest has a dairy protein allergy that I believe was triggered by formula the nurse gave him in teh hospital. Obviously I was angry about that to begin with, he was to be exclusively breastfed, but that one intro triggered his allergy, and it came out in raging eczema that has taken us 6yrs to get under control, find the problem, and alternate ways of dealing with it.

I breastfed him for a long time, and he can tolerate some milk, but ice cream does him in. He can have cheese and yogurt because the proteins are so broken down that it doesn't affect him. We use alot of almond milk, and we all get our calcium the way the cows do... from greens. Milk is not necessary, its not a staple food especially now that its so overprocessed, adn children are being given 'inferior' food (formula) from birth, thier bodies just can't handle it.

So to answer your question, you can continue spending money on the expensive formula, or you can move to goats milk (which is the closest to human milk), almond milk, or skipm ilk all together and keep your son on a colorful, well balanced diet to meet his needs.

My daughter became allergic to milk protein when she was 6 months old. She was being bottlefed, so we just switched to soy formula. I don't really remember how we switched her over to dairy...I do know it wasn't until sometime after her first birthday, and I think we started with milk products first, like yogurt or mozzerella stick cheese, not milk (milk is raw, the other dairy foods have been broken down by processing). We introduced one new dairy food at a time, waited about 2-3 days, and if she tolerated it, we kept on giving her it and then added another one. She seemed to tolerate that extremely well. It's like introducing any new food; slowly, and one at a time.

Ironically, my husband discovered he was lactose intolerant soon after my daughter began eating dairy, so actually, she drinks soy milk at home and cow's milk at school. She actually prefers the soy.
A. C.

You may be able to try goat or sheep milk. I don't have experience with this, but have read that these are easier to digest for many people than cow milk or soy milk.

My daughter had a milk protein allergy so we switched her at 4 months to soy formula. She drank that until 12 months and then we switched to Silk Soy Milk. Over that year we occasionally would let her have the last few sips of our skim milk to try so she would get the taste of it. It kind of became a treat to her and she loved getting to drink out of our big glasses. At 2 years we switched her to skim milk and she was just fine with it and still drinks it, she's almost 6 now.
Hope this helps, please email me if you have more questions about it.
J.
Mom to 4, soon one more through another adoption and hopefully more.

I nursed for a long time because of this problem, but she really liked almond milk and rice milk, too. She drinks a lot of water! Her nutrients come from her food, not her drink anymore and she's never been malnourished or anything. Milk is overrated. She loves green veggies (good source of calcium) and she eats meat, so she doesn't need milk. I avoided juice for a long time, too, because that's just like giving a kid liquid candy. Now she has juice as a "sometimes food."

Hi N.! My 4 yo. has been allergic to milk proteins and all dairy since birth. He drinks soy milk (he likes Silk the most), eats soy yogurt (Silk and Stonyfield farms make good ones) and eats either Soy Dream ice cream or Edy's whole fruit ice cream...neither contain milk. The only thing we have not found a suitable substite for is cheese. THe soy cheese we found contained trace amounts of milk and made him sick. We have not yet tried goat's milk cheese but I heard that he may have less of a sensitivity to that...we have just learned to not serve him food with cheese. My recommendation to you is to read labels. There is milke in a LOT more things than you think. It's a difficult adjustment at first, but you'll get it :) Good luck!

My son who just turned 7 and was also on Nutramagin (we called it liquid gold for how good it was and how expensive!) for a dairy allergy as well. We have been using soy milk starting at 12 months. It works great for him. BTW allergist told us never to use goats milk as too close to dairy in molecular structure and will most likely be allergic the that as well. We have never tested this theory. Good luck. Also there are several brands of "cheese" out there. The cheese I have liked the best is RICE cheese and you have to pay VERY close attention to get the one that says "dairy free". The ingrediant your looking to eliminate is the casein. I buy mine at lakewinds, but I know that whole foods also carries this as well. You can go to the FAAN website, they are wonderful for information. One last hint... when my son was diagnosed and started eating real food, it helped me so much to label everything in the pantry. I lived in fear that I would feed him something in a hurry that was not good for him, so I bought green and red dot stickers at office max and just stuck a red or green sticker on the box as I put away my groceries and I had little shoebox size bins that were labled in my pantry with red or green. This is a huge time saver and babysitters can easliy follow the system.

N.,
My son had a milk allergy also, We tried the almond milk he did not like it to nutty flavor for him, He did drink rice milk till he was 2 years old and never any issue with Dr ok we stated weaning him at 11 1/2 mth to the rice milk.

My daughter has a milk allergy. We unfortunately didn't find out until she was three. She spit up a lot when she was little, but was growing just fine. Anyway, we have tried many different brands of soy milk and she never really liked any of them.

A friend told me to try rice milk or almond milk. We now buy the almond milk. It comes in different flavors like the soy, but is a little sweeter and the consistency of skim milk. Both of my kids love it and I can get them to eat any cereal (even one that said was made with twigs) since the milk is a little sweeter. I even use it when I am baking instead of milk and it works great!

I used to have to buy it at the natural food store, but now can find it in the organic aisle at the grocery store or even at Target in the cereal aisle.

My daughter and niece both were born with milk and soy protein intolerance. We use "enriched" rice milk (Hy-Vee brand). Just need to be sure to get the good fats/Omegas in the diet, like avocados and eggs. My daughter is 3 now and does okay with foods containing milk or soy, but I still limit them in her diet. My niece is still intolerant. I did mix some formula (Neocate) into her rice milk until she was around 18 months or so just to be sure she was getting the nutrients she needed.

my son was bleeding rectally after he was born and they did a scope on his little hiney and found his.. He had to be on neocate that was 84.00 a can so I am glad that nutramigen worked for your boy. They did a milk intolerance test with him which allowed me to feed him yogurt and cheese and what have you at 1 and he had outgrown it. They told me we were in the go from there and have had no problems since..I hope your little man outgrows it too.
Good luck.
~~ANG~~

I believe in general you should wait until 1 yr to give your child milk.
My son was allergic to milk when he was born and we had to give him soy formula, but his doc thought he would grow out of it and by the time he was one he could have regular milk.
As a side note, I had to watch what I gave him as far as baby food as well, because some of it has milk in it or milk products and if he would eat it, he would get sick, so I had to make sure to read labels.
Ask your doctor about it, maybe he will tell you to start him on something now....

Did you know that you can eliminate alergies? We eliminated them in all of us using NAET. Select Chiropractors have been trained in NAET. http://www.naet.com/

My daughter had a similar situation... by her first birthday she had seemed to out grow it... we did a slow transition of a little milk mixed with water and slow increased the milk ratio. she has been on Whole milk for almost a year now with no problems.

What about rice milk? I have a sensitivity that is off and on to cow's milk so sometimes I drink goats milk. I have never liked the taste of soy milk.

Here is a link to a website that someone asked something similar to you... there are many good suggestions and links to find out ways to get a variety of food in his diet.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008041810465...

Best wishes!

My daughter won't drink milk so awhile back we started using Hemp milk. It has a higher fat and protein content than rice milk. It also has the omega fats. I buy ours from the Whole Foods...there is only 1 brand there called "Living Harvest" Hempmilk. My girls love the chocolate milk and I use the plain in my cereal. It's quite expensive but worth it to me. My girls are 3 1/2 and 2. Good luck!

Our son is also allergic to milk. We had been using the soy formula, but found that he is allergic to that also. We were using Nutramigen, until a few days ago. We are using a formula called EleCare which is made specifically for children with a milk allergy. He just turned one and that seems to be working great for him.

I hope you can find some information on the Internet or at the library on how dangerous soy can be...there is a lot of new information out there...please share it with your doctor. You are right, there are definitely other options. Read up on goat's milk, that's probably the most reasonable place to start. I think if you find a doctor educated about the dangers of soy for babies/toddlers, you would be finding a doctor who is more likely than your current one to give you consistent good advice on other topics as well for your child.

N.,
I would never put my child on Soy again (I did with my 3rd and 4th kids and regret it. Turns out it's like a mock hormone and can mess w/their reproductive systems.). My pediatrician suggested it, too. But since then I've discovered that pediatricians don't know as much about nutrition as we think they do.

Personally, knowing what I know now (with much research for my PDD-NOS son, my lactose intolerant ADHD son, and my eczema son, all three w/lots of allergies), I would have put them on Hemp milk, coconut milk, rice milk, almond milk, or even goats milk.

Do you know which of the protien's he's allergic to? There is lactose, whey and casein. This could be helpful information as well, since not each of these is in everything. You could pinpoint the one you need to avoid.

Also, look into enzymes and what they may be able to offer your son down the road. They help w/digestive challenges.

Good luck!
J.

Rice milk. Depending on the nature of his allergy he might be able to tolerate goat's milk. You could ask the doctor. Many people who are allergic to dairy are also allergic to soy so you might want to look into that too. My son had a dairy and soy allergy when he was little, but was able to drink goat's milk. Good luck.