Dairy Allergy? - Olathe,KS

Also, in addition to someone's suggestion of goats milk, try the rice milk and the almond milk. You might just find that it's not bad at all. I can drink the rice milk in cereal and almond milk too, in cereal. I don't exactly enjoy just drinking it down. But it's great for cooking and with some repeated drinking, I could probably like it. I don't really drink regular milk like that either.

I have had a Milk Allergy my whole life. When I was a baby I was on soy formula. Then for some reason my mother took me off the formula and just figured I out grew the allergy. I grew up with Sever stomach aches, I could not focus at school (Most of school lunches get protein from Cheese) And I was always ill, with itchy ears. Most of my symptoms were problems that really couldn’t be proved. Diarrhea usually came at night and kept me up all night. Woke up exhausted and was usually late for school. Mind you I knew no different life.
School officials, Doctors and my Mother all said I was being "Manipulative" to get out of school.
I was 18 and had my first Child when a doctor diagnosed me with lactose allergy.

2 of my children don’t have it. My 3 year old daughter Has the Lactose Allergy, She knows she cannot have Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Hot Coco, and certain Soups and foods with a Crème base or Powered milk ingredients.

She drinks Almond Milk, we both do. She will tell her day care. I can’t have that Or I will get Diarrhea. I feel bad for her but thankful she wont have to go through what I did.

My Daughter loves certain foods but cannot have them, it is just a fact of life. The Almond milk we get has great nutrition. Please watch out for Gluten and soy. Message me if you need anything! I have helped Several friends diagnose their babies and when they confirmed at the doctor they came to me for Meals and such.

Also A persons Ethnicity directly affects whether they can tolerate the Lactose or not. We are Russian and Hispanic. Several of my Native American friends babies cannot tolerate lactose either.

There is a Difference between (Lactose Intolerant) and (Lactose Allergy) Many people don’t realize this and think that everyone can have some Lactose products, like pudding or yogurt not everyone can.
Also You may realize that Organic Milk products may work out better in Moderation if you child has the Intolerant form.

I agree with other moms that it would be good to see if she's allergic - either by testin (which isn't always reliable) or by elimination diet. I see that you've gotten a couple suggestions avout goats milk and I don't agree that it is a good milk to start with. Both cows milk and goats milk are made of a few different kind of proteins. Some of them are the same (casein alpha S-1 and beta lactoglobulin), but some are different in these two milks. If your daughter is allergic to a protein shared by these two milks, she'll react to goats milk too. I searched for this info when my son was diagnosed with milk allergy and decided I wanted him to go TOTALLY milk protein free until he was well again. But do some research and make up your own mind about this. :)

We have been battling the milk protein allergy for 2 years. Luckily now a days there are so many alternatives. If they seem soy intolerant then I would try rice milk and you can also find coconut milk yogurts, ice cream etc to an alternative soy product. At 18 months we had a simple blood test ran at our dr office. It confirmed milk allergy, and slight soy, but also gave me a piece of mind b/c they tested him for peanuts, tree nuts, chocolate, eggs, and seafood. Which are all the scary food to serve to your child! I also took him to an nutritional doctor who really helped me find alternatives for milk products, natural calcium supplements, and was a great support to me about going dairy free for my child. Good luck!

Please get a blood draw and find out what she is allergic to. One of my online friends had a very similar experience with her newborn, and her daughter does have several serious allergies (and has never eaten the foods she is allergic to). Another friend tested her son for food allergies after constant ear infections, allergies to what seemed environmental factors, and entering the asthma treatment idea... it was all food, and eliminating his food allergens got his health back on track. Hopefully your daughter's food reaction is limited to dairy (unlike these two other kids who have several), but it does sound like she should be tested immediately before you treat her for things she doesn't have. Good luck on this!

My granddaughter has had several food allergies as well as asthma and eczema. She has been thru the allergy (skin prick) test twice. Once when she was around a year old and then again when she was 6. The tests are not painful. It is just a slight skin prick, just enough to break the skin. My granddaughter fussed a bit when she was a baby but didn't even wince when she was 6. I've also had the skin prick test as an adult and did not find it painful. The hives the resulted from a positive test were uncomfortable but the nurse slathered them with cortisone cream and the itching stopped.

I have numerous food allergies and have found the elimination tests a hassle. The skin prick test is done and over including evaluation and discussion in 30 minutes or so. Well, worth the bit of mild discomfort to me.

They can also test for allergies with a blood test. The test is not as conclusive but did indicate that my granddaughter was allergic to milk protein when she was just a few months old.

My granddaughter was allergic to milk protein and outgrew it. We discovered that she'd outgrown it once she started school and on her own began to drink milk. Your daughter is most likely still allergic to milk protein. Around 3 is the earliest I've heard for having outgrown it.

My granddaughter was able to tolerate yogurt and cheese even tho she couldn't tolerate milk.

I suggest trying her on rice milk instead of cow's milk. I'm lactose intolerant and have been using rice milk to drink and in cooking for years. My grandchildren love rice milk. That is all I have in my frig. They also drank rice milk during their preschool years because of my granddaughter's milk allergy.

If she refuses the rice milk you could mix it with cow's milk and reduce the amount of cow's milk during 2-3 days.

Our two year old has also always, had a dairy intolerance and issues with oats. Her symptoms were similar and it took about two months for it to start. We also had experience with doctors thinking it was something else. Finally, I just decided to try what I thought and took her off both oats and dairy. She was a different child. We replaced milk with calcium fortified Lactaid and she loves it. The doctor said it was a good choice and we were told by a nutritionist to watch for similar symptoms in our next child because it runs in families. I then learned from my aunt that she and my cousins were all lactose intolerant until around the time they started school and then outgrew it. The doctor told us to try the oats and dairy at seperate times every six months or so to determine if she had outgrown the issue. I am happy to say she is now eating oats without any problems (at 2 1/2) and we will try milk again in a few months. You know your kid and you will make the best choices for her. Trust yourself. My main suggestion is try lactaid (it breaks down the lactose before we get it). It's a little sweeter than normal milk so she will most likely love it. I hope this helps.

Speaking from my own experience it sounds like she does a milk allergy. The way my ped explained it to my mom, my allergy to milk caused me to produce mucas. Too much milk caused a pneumonia-like response in me. My reaction was mainly to milk/cream itself. That is, I could eat cheese (in moderation) without an adverse effect. I grew out of my milk allergy and by the time I reached 8 or 9 years old, I could drink milk or even cream without any adverse side effects. I have always disliked yogurt immensly. When I was little, frozen yogurt was not common. If it had been, I might have eaten yogurt! I ate a lot of sherbert. My neighbor sells goat's milk and I recently tried some. I was surprised that it is very good. To me, it tastes a lot like cow's milk only richer, a little more flavorful. You can treat it exactly like cow's milk. That is you can mix it with hershey's syrup and/or use it in any recipe that calls for cow's milk. I'm not sure, but I believe it must be stored in glass containers rather than plastic. If you choose to purchase goat's milk, your vendor should be able to verify this. Other sources of calcium (in addition to calcium supplements) are tofu made with calcium salts (check the label), kale and broccoli. The great thing about tofu is that it takes on the flavors of whatever you're cooking it with-otherwise I find it to be almost tasteless. Kale makes a great addition to a nice leafy salad and to this day, broccoli is still one of my favorite green vegetables! Good luck and God bless!

My suggestion is maybe try Rice Milk. You can limit her intake of milk every other day, or substitute juices or try Rice Milk. See if that affects her allergies.

HI

My son is now 6 1/2 and I switched him to a non dairy diet - he loves his Goar Milk and I found many options of goat cheeses or rice cheese , rice ice cream. It has helped him so much with his colds and ear infections. It takes some effort but can really be done. To start with the milk you can do 1/4 goat 3/4 regular and slowly increase the Goat milk -

Good luck !

oi, so familar... You are reliving my daughter's milk allergy symptoms between the age of 11-23 months... hopefully without the ear tube surgery, reoccuring sinus infections (that would turn into brochiolitis) every 6-8 weeks, antibiotic allergic reactions & ER visits, battery of blood tests, heart tests, immunology tests... Before we got confirmation it was an allergy to cows milk protein.

Most kids outgrow it by age three. At 4, my daughter has not yet... At first, I was just going to cut out direct forms of cows diary from her diet... But she would still get the constant clear congestion which then turned into a sinus infection. So I then had to cut out all foods made with cows milk diary ingredients. I switched her to goat milk diary instead of soy. Bought a bread machine so I could make goat milk bread. Figured out how to manage homecooked meals and FT work...

And the congestion disappeared!! Sinus infections ended. In those 18 months before we knew about the allergy, she had 33 visits to her primary pedi, not counting the ones to her ENT and pediatric allergist. Since cutting cows milk diary, she's had maybe one visit every 6 months (but not for congestion & sinus issues!).

If my daughter eats anything made with cows butter, cassin, whey or milk, she gets the clear congestion. If she eats anything with cows cheese, she will either vomit or get the runs for 3-4 days.

Hope this info is helpful. Feel free to email me is you have questions about surviving a cows milk allergy.

Well something is bothering her. Here is what I was just told for my 4YO who kept complaining she was going to throw up. She had a bit of a throat infection and probably had some mucus running into her throat along with the milk it was upsetting her stomach. Try 2 or 1%, as I was also told that I should not have whole milk in the house unless I have a two year old. I have switched to both 2 and 1% and the problem is gone. I know your daughter is still two, but maybe it will help.

I was also told a while back by another doctor that latin babies cannot tolerate milk. I brought this up and she said it is not just latin babies, it is people of color, anyone with color in the pigment of their skin.

Hi M.,

Do an elimination test on her. Don't take away her yogurt or cheese but just don't have any milk in the house. If you can show her that you don't have any, she will not be as upset. Two year olds can process that. Yogurt and cheese are different than just milk. It may be that she can't tolerate the milk and it may be there is something else causing it but going without for a week, you will be able to determine if this is causing the sinus symptoms.

God bless,

M.

My boy showed signs of milk intolerance as soon as we switched him from formula to milk - so we went to soy milk. He can eat cheese and yogurt just fine and has probably grown out of the milk thing but we have decided to keep him - and us - on soy milk rather than cow's milk. In our opinion cow's milk is for baby cows.

We give our now almost 5 yr old rice milk for the very same symptoms. As soon as we got rid of milk he got better. He loves the rice milk and never really complains. Now that he's a little older, he can tolerate skim milk cheese (because it doesn't have the milk fat, which is the worst part). Good luck