Need Advice for Son with Milk Allergy!

Good luck witht he allergy testing. Hopefully he will only be allergic to milk. My little guy is allergic to wheat, soy, p-nuts, and egg white. He had a blood test done which I think was the best way to do it. At least it was for us since he has excema. Anyways dont get discouraged there are a lot of children that have allergies and they say something like 80% of children grown out of them. For us we do a lot of reading in special diet books. Actually the betty crocker cookbook has been the best so far. I think it comes down to just a lot of good old fashion cooking. Also we do shop a lot at whole foods too. In some of my special cook books they talk about rice milk in many of ther recipes I have a cook book called Sophies Safe Cooking (it is an allergy cook book). I bought it at Barnes and Nobel you might want to look into that. Good luck I wish you the best with the testing!

Hi L.,
My son has milk AND sugar allergies. Both of those things are in EVERYTHING!
We just got really creative. We do a lot of soy. Be wary of people who think soy is bad for you. The phytoestrogens, which are in soy, are PLANT estrogens (which really aren't "estrogen" like we know it) are different from the human hormone estrogen.

For breakfast, there is a brand of cereals called Kashi and a good number of their cereals do not have milk in them - they also make frozen waffles. He loves oatmeal and cream of wheat. Lunch is a sandwich, pretzels, he loves fruits and veggies and soy yogurt is a huge hit. Once you get into the swing of it, its really not that bad (there are certain brands of soy icecream that are actually really good!).

I agree, eliminating dairy isn't a bad thing (although *I* couldn't live without cheese!). :-)

I was never a label reader, but with his allergies I have been forced to read them. Watch for things with Whey, as that is a derivitive of milk.

I cook most everything from "scratch" and don't use any pre-packaged things. You will find how much healthier you are eating after all of this.

Let me know if you have other questions. I'd be happy to share. Also, be mindful that the allergy tests don't pick up everything. The daughter of a friend of mine pukes each time she has milk, yet when she had an allergy test, it didn't show that she was allergic. If he eats it and it makes him sick, then stay away from it.
Good Luck,
B.

Hi. My husband has a severe dairy allergy (very rare for it to last into adulthood) so we make almost everything without dairy. We buy Tyson chicken tenderloin and nuggets at Costco that have no dairy in them. Just remember to always read the labels because companies change their ingredients. I once "poisoned" my husband because a company switched that I had been buying for quite a while and I didn't read the label. We have been able to find most anything in a non-dairy version, including mac and cheese. They don't always taste good though, but you could always try them out and see if your son might like them.

I think that Chef Boyardee has something that doesn't have milk in it but I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head I think it is hamburger and noodles, but I know that I have something by Chef Boyardee in the pantry, perhaps you can offer it to your son instead of the Cheese ravioli.

I make pancakes and waffles from scratch, it really isn't hard at all, and use soy milk instead of milk. I use Betty Crocker's recipe. They refrigerate well so that you can just microwave them for a quick breakfast, if necessary. I also have a recipe for banana muffins without milk that everyone says is great. Feel free to contact me if you need any recipes.

Good Luck,
D.

HI, neither of my children have afood allergies, but we don't drink milk either. We all do rice milk, Rice Dream is best. If you go to Whole Foods, you can find everyhting there that is dairy free. There is a ton, from waffles, bread, mac and cheese,sliced cheese, everything. I cut dairy out of my diet for about 4 months awhile ago, now I have it in foods, but not milk. I did it for headache reasons, but humans can't break down the calcium in dairy anyway, so it's not necessary. Maybe you can go to Whole Foods just to have a look and try a few things at a time. Both of my kids love going there and helping pick out their food. Everyone who works there is very helpful and actually knows about the products. The one in Wheaton has a bigger selection than the one in Palatine. Good luck to you.

Careful of soy w/boys due to hormone... can make their 'manhood' small says research. Have the dairy/egg/soy/peanut allergy thing here. We do rice milk. Not bad really, and fortified w/calcium and vitamin D. Get rice dream, some others have soy in them.

Whey and Casiene are the biggies but i read there's like 24 things in cow's milk people are allergic too. You can try oat milk but its hard to find. I heard people do Goat milk but expensive and frequently people have allergies to both. By the way, if they are doing a scratch test, bring in whole milk w/you cuz it didn't show up w/us until i gave them actual milk to use... and it showed up in blood test. They tell me because there's so many things people are allergic to it doesn't always show up.

There are some chicken nuggets out there w/o dairy.
Hot dogs are usually ok.
Teddy grahams are good instead of gold fish.
pretzels
Ritz crackers are okay too.
There's some animal crackers that do not have dairy, read labels.
Stay away from all canned noodle stuff, my son likes multi colored twisty noodles (forget the name).
We use earth balance butter substitute, as margarines have no dairy, but if concerned about egg, ... there's egg in all of them but Earth balance (vegan).
Watch bread labels... but the more sticks and gravel as my sister says... usually less likely to ahve whey/milk/casiene. ...

I just found chocolate chips that don't have dairy.
Unfort w/chocolate and breads the more expensive they are the less likely they have it.

We make pancackes w/rice milk.

cherrios (sp?)

Wheatables i think are okay.

avacados
make your own meatballs
oatmeal, plain (not those cream ones)
i had trouble finding fish sticks but i think that was cuz of the egg.
RICE DREAM ice cream, or toufoutti which is SO GOOD but soy.

need any more ideas just ask.
i find myself baking a lot and really find that things can taste just as good and more healthy w/o milk (and in our case eggs).

good luck.
it's not such a big deal when you figure it out and see how much happier your son will be : ))

Hi L.,

My son who is 6 now, had dairy allergies from the beginning.
When he wouldn't drink plain soymilk, I would give him vanilla or chocalate. It's better than none at all. To this day, he still drinks it. He is able to eat cheese, yogurt and ice cream now...although will sometimes get a stomache ache, but not always. Alot of kids grow out of their milk allergies.
My son is a VERY picky eater too. I do give hime Juice Plus everyday just in case as well.
My pediatrician once told me that milk and dairy products aren't good for us anyway. So, I fugure he won't have a weight problem like me....who loved milk as a kid and loves cheese!
Good luck,
A.