lactose/cows protein intolerance - long sorry

[GloriaMumble]

DD has developed a rash round her mouth and nose in the last few weeks. It looks like bright red pin pricks. I assumed that it was a reaction to food (I didn't perhaps go as slowly as I should have done when introducing new food ) so I cut out everything except plain vegetables/fruit (not tomatoes) and the rash is definitely better but not gone away.

I've realised that DD started to have formula feeds at a not dissimilar time to the rash appearing - its very hard to be specific cus the rash didn't just suddenly appear, it sort of developed.

Anyway, discussed with HV today who said it looked to her like a classic food reaction rash and to try lactose-free SMA for few days to see whether it got better. Thing is, I thought breastmilk had lactose in it so wouldn't DD have shown a reaction to that? Looking at the SMA website SMA LF is cows milk based so if it a cows milk protein allergy LF won't help.... but then if its a cows milk protein allergy, I eat dairy so wouldn't that have gone through into breastmilk????

Help!

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Gloria, your HV is confusing lactose intolerance with cows milk protein intolerance, from the sound of things.

So you are right to question her advice.

[GloriaMumble]

Thanks for the swift reply, thats confirmed what I thought.

So what do you think I should try in order to eliminate cows milk protein allergy? DD's been having at least 2 formula feeds a day for a couple of months now so I'm assuming I can't easily go back to exclusively BF (and tbh I don't want to). I know goats milk formula isn't available and I dimly remember that soya formula's not a good idea because lots of babies who can't do cows also can't do soya....