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Allergies and intolerances

does your child have a cows milk allergy?

8 replies

nappyaddict · 11/06/2007 09:47

but can they eat butter, cheese or yoghurt?

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debliz5 · 11/06/2007 10:29

Hi nappyaddict, from my experience with DS, it depends how old and allergic he is.

We found out DS was allergic to milk when I first tried to give him a bottle when he was 6 months old. He got a bit red around the mouth. The dietician recommended not to give him any dairy products at all, including products that might contain milk protein.

He had a blood test when he was 18 months old, and found out he was had a very minor allergy to it and the doctor recommended to start giving him dairy. He still (now 21 months) doesn't like milk, but he loves yogurt and cheese and he's fine with it.
The good news is that most children grow out of it at some stage.

I hope this helps. Good luck

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slalomsuki · 11/06/2007 10:39

nappy

my dd will get terrible tummy upsets if I give her cows milk to drink so we are on goats milk but she van stand cheese, butter and yoghurts in small quantities. Its Ok to manage but a pain if we have to go somewhere since I then have to take goats milk. She never really got on with Soya.
funnily enough she is 21 months too

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barney2 · 11/06/2007 10:58

My daughter was allergic to formula milk from day one, although we weren't aware of her allergy until some time later when after so many weeks of projectile vomitting and me trying to convince the GP's there was something wrong with her (she was losing weight etc) I finally had the diagnosis of an allergy to formula and cows (we tried both) at about 6 months of age so we had to put her on prescribed soya formula. She couldn't tolerate anything with cows milk in it - whether it be butter, cheese, yoghurt, cakes, bread etc etc....she lived off Alpro soya yoghurts and soya was put in with any meals I cooked for her. Once she got to about 18mths old she suddenly started keeping cheese and yoghurt down (only because she was helping herself to her elder sister's food!) so we had her checked by the specialist that was dealing with her allergy and we were advised to gradually introduce cows milk into her diet. After a few weeks of weaning she was fine. If she ate anything with cows milk/normal formula she would be immediately sick, a rash would develop around her trunk and she would go very snotty. We found it was quite common with children to be allergic to cows milk - its usually either an allergy to the lactose or protein. The same applied to eggs with her - I smeared a tiny amount of raw egg on her face to see if she developed a rash, which she did - much kinder to check eggs out this way rather than feed it to them and then be ill.

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Tartanmam · 11/06/2007 14:26

My ds is just over a year, he's had butter, cheese and yogurt but only in really small quantites (he never seemed very keen on them) sometimes he would get a bit of a rash round his mouth when he ate them but i never thought anything of it - until he had some double cream and his eyes swelled up and his face broke out. I'm still waiting to see the paed. but have cut out all dairy until i do - felt it was better to be safe than sorry.

He's also allergic to eggs, had a reaction to them before the cream incident so luckily i had priton on hand.

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nappyaddict · 11/06/2007 15:00

has anyone's lo been allergic to cow's milk but not cow's milk formula?

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barney2 · 11/06/2007 15:56

Yes...my dd couldn't even swallow a mouth full of cows milk without bringing it straight back up again.

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nappyaddict · 11/06/2007 23:24

we have just switched over to cows milk and recently has been being really clingy and crying all day long. i just thought it was a phase but someonesaid their could be underlying medical causes like food intolerance. the only thing i could think of was that but we never had problems with formula.

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ang772 · 11/06/2007 23:28

my son has intolerance to cows milk. he is breastfed and i have had to cut all dairy out of my diet, haven't tried him on formula. he was always a sicky baby who was extremely clingy, the clinginess may not be related, but my thinking is if i had an upset tummy i would be crying and want my mummy too.

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