Dairy vs soya intolerance

[jasperc163]

LO is on Neocate with a suspected (though not certain) MPI. The dieticians have said that whilst it is better to leave dairy out altogether until 18months, we should try soya anytime after 6 months (as often soya more of a problem in first 6 months??).

Just interested to know how many people here have found their LOs are ok wtih soya but not dairy?

thanks
alice
ps LO is 8 months.

[mosschops30]

ds developed a lactose intolerance after a very serious stomach bug. he would vomit after every bottle. We switched to soya milk and he was fine, we were told to do this for 6-8 weeks then slowly wean back on to dairy.

It all went fine and he is now back on dairy products.

Good luck

[HenniPenni]

DD aged 5 has always reacted to "something" since around the eight month old mark, Her symptoms are/were: continous runny nose and eyes, excema, chesty cough, ear infectios, chest infections, major glue ear requiring grommets (failed all hearing tests at 8 months- 1 month after weaning her from the breast)tummy pains, enlarged adoniods- sounds very congested when she talks.
After numerous visits to Gp, a refusal to send her for allergy testing and a 6 month course of antihystamines we finally decided to take her of most dairy produce and use soya products,the effect is amazing aroun 90%improvement of the above symptoms- so we now have a very happy little girl (well most of the time)instead of a miserable upset child with all the related behavioural problems, so yes deffo better with soya- just wish it didn't taste so horrid-but hey, she's got used to it now.HTH

[bresha]

the same happened to me as it did with mosschops30.
except my dd is still not having milk, she has small amounts of cheese and yoghurt but only small amounts she still cant take it.
hoping it will lessen as she gets older.
my dd has SMALF and Soya milk

[threebob]

I'd keep her on Neocate, it sounds like they are trying to save money.

[apronstrings]

my dd has been lactose intolerentall her life she is 10 now and I think she might be groing out of it. We have never had a problem with soya

[colinandcaitlinsmommy]

DD was horribly lactose intolerant and we got it diagnosed somewhere around the 3rd month of her life. She was switched to soy formula, and has done fine on that, although she can only tolerate the more expensive brand, and reacts to any other kind. We were never able to put her back on breast milk, and at almost 10 months she still is unable to have anything dairy. Dr. said to try again after a year and see what happens.

[Chandra]

I do have mixed feelings about soya, I would try to avoid soya for longer if I were you, especially if your child is a boy.

DS is allergic to milk and, as someone else in this thread, it took us ages to convince GP that something was wrong, nor even when he had the first reaction to peanuts were they very proactive in getting an appointement. To cut the story short we took him abroad for allergy testing, and while we were at it asked them to test for other things we were slightly suspicious of. The results were shocking, apart of being allergic to nuts, he is allergic to milk, fish, egg, some fruits and vegetables and soya, of all the allergies soya is the most troublesome ingredient to avoid.

There are many studies that mantain that there is a link between soya and peanut allergy, many children who are allergic to peanuts also react to soya. We don't know if his soya allergy is an extension of his sensibility to peanuts or visceversa. However, DS didn't have any exposure to peanuts before the one that caused the reaction while he was expsed to soya before: soya formula for 2 weeks when he was about 6m, he also had a soya based bath oil for his eczama for about 4m and... at the time of the test DS levels of antibodies to soya were more than one hundred times higher than the "healthy" limit. So... I will avoid it if I have another child.