Egg and Milk Allergy - What's out of bounds

[qsack]

Just found the allergy topic so posted this in food too.
Been told today that my DS who is nearly 1 has a milk and egg allergy / intolerance. The intolerance on Egg is a bit higher than on the milk. I"m worried that I'll give him something with egg in by accident and wonder what snacks and puddings are good that i can also give to my other DS's so i'm not making and carrying round lots of diff. meals and snacks. any thoughts would be really welcomed!

[anneme]

Alpro soya yoghurts are good. Also flapjacks made with marge rather than butter. DS1 has been milk and egg intolerant and so has really got used to having fruit rather than pudding - I just don't bother with puds much at all. When I do it is soya yog or crumble!! Do label read - they sneak egg and milk into the weirdest things !

[qsack]

Thanks anneme. will try those. we love making flapjacks so that's a relief! what happens when your ds has milk or egg? as far as i know with milk it's either vommit or eczema outbreak. he's only been subjected to egg when I've eaten it and have breastfed and it made his eczema worse.

[qsack]

ps. when I say as far as I know I mean, that's what happens with my DS!

[mawbroon]

DS is allergic to egg and intolerent to milk.

I struggled with puddings too, and now, we mostly just do fruit. We use rice milk rather than soy, because I have read that soy is also a common allergen, so I didn't want to overload ds with it. You can also get oat milk. So, if you want to, you can make all sorts of milk puddings with the non dairy milk - custard, rice pudding etc.

Snacks are things like breadsticks, rice cakes, popcorn (pop my own and don't add any salt/sugar), ham or chicken, hummous, fruit etc

HTH

[anneme]

I noticed it with DS1 (who is now 4) when he was being weaned and I gave him porridge with milk at 6 mths - he clearly had a sore tummy. However it has mainly shown itself with eczema. He used to start scratching the top right of his lip and it would come up v quickly - and elsewhere and i noticed this when I gave him some scambled egg but can't remember how old he was.
Now he just gets generally itchy at times but he is far far better so it is true that they grow out of it sometimes. He is still on soya milk (alpro with added vits etc but not sweetened) but he can have a bit of cheese etc. he is also now able to have things with a bit of egg in them (eg cake) but that is relatively recent and he has not had egg on its own yet. I think he seems to get a bit edgy if he has egg/dairy too much. I don't think he was ever affected by what I ate when bfing and I bf until he was 15 months so think I would have noticed. Fingers crossed DS2 aged 7 months seems ok!
Oh - soya icecream - v good for when they want a bit of spoiling!! I did have trouble finding recipes that were suitable particularly because we are veggie and so ended up having to go down the vegan route which did not really suit me!

[anneme]

Has anyone managed to make pancakes with no egg and soya/rice/oat milk? Or is that a hopeful step too far?!

[mawbroon]

Haven't tried pancakes.

I took the decision not to go down the road of making egg and dairy free alternatives because when ds was younger, I thought it was a bit too confusing for him. He was too young to understand why he can't have a biscuit/cake/whatever today when he got one yesterday.

He's never missed them tbh and now that he is old enough to understand, he gets a slice of dutch ontbijtkoek now and again which I can buy in Sainsbury's. It's dairy and egg free.

It was also a way of stopping well meaning people stuffing him with junk without me sounding too precious about it. The only time having allergies has been an advantage.

[Mumfie68]

Yes, you can make dairy/egg free pancakes, and they're yummy! There was a thread on them only a few days ago, if you look there are some good recipes posted.