oh thats good!!

The goat farmer came good - hurray! Let's hope he likes and can tolerate it, failing that the dietician said 600mg of calcium supplements a day. Need to check with the manufacturer if the ones in sweden are gf/cf or else I will order from the goodness direct website.

Thanks for your advice and links.

Funny you should say that but my FIL has a 'winter home' a few hours away with a neighbour who has a goat farm. My husband thinks he might make goat milk so we're going to check that option out!

You could buy a goat and milk it yourself!!!!

They don't sell any kind of A2 milk in supermarkets or health food shops here, or almond milk. One supermarket did stock goats milk for a while but stopped as they said it wasn't popular. The only thing I can find is coconut milk but i don't think it's that high in calcium (can't find any real figures on it).

My husband went to the pharmacy yesterday (the pharmacies are a state run monopoly called Apoteket in sweden) and they refused to sell him anything saying that we need to see a doctor/dietician to get the correct doseage or we could give my son kidney failure, so now my husband is very against me buying the liquid product staryeyed linked to on goodness-direct. He will call on Monday but last time we had to wait for 3 months to see a dietician so I hope it won't take as long this time (if so I'll try to get hold of a private one, but there's not as many private practitioners in sweden, particularly for children).

Just made some almond milk which hasn't gone down too well, but we'll give it another go tonight before he goes to bed. I'm not sure that that's very high in calcium either though as a big proportion of the nuts don't end up in the milk.

Thanks for your ideas and sorry if I sound all glum, just a bit fed up.

Does he need calcium? I'd get a blood test done first.

My ds had blood test that showed calcium had leaked to outta cellular (in blood) so was dangerous for him to have calcium. Their is a lot of evidence out their that asd kids have calcium receptor problems etc..esp if you feel the cause is a metobolic issue like in ds case (mito issues turning protein into energy etc).

Can you ask the Manager of your local supermarket as it is becoming a very popular product. In the UK, most supermarkets stock fresh goats milk

Sweden.

where are you based?

Thanks for the replies.

I haven't been able to source any A2 milk in my part of the world so far, but will look into it again. It's certainly something I'd consider. If I understand correctly, A2 milks are:
goats
buffalo
guernsey cow

Is that right?

I think I may have found some long life goats milk a while ago that I might be able to get shipped from england although it will cost a bomb.

Thanks for your link also staryeyed, I will look into it.