Trying to work out whether to try my 9MO DD with cows milk again.
She has an egg allergy and we are trying to work out if an intolerance to cows milk protein too - as advised by her allergist.
Tried her twice (few months ago and this last fortnight). First time she had a week of really foul smelling diarrhoea. Of course it was possible there was another cause for the diarrhoea which is why we tried again. This time, we paced it more sensibly. She was fine with baked milk in biscuits, but had two episodes of horrible diarrhoea after trying cooked milk. She also seemed to be in discomfort at night...
Problem is - she has also had a virus to coincide with all this :S Part of me wants to try again to make sure she's 100% and we can definitely say it's the milk causing the problem... I'd love for it to be fine... but part of me thinks I'm clutching at straws, and we have two challenges... which probably cause her pain etc and I should just accept that we need to stay dairy free for a bit longer... My son was CMPA so I am used to it and I know that people have much bigger challenges than this to cope with!
I don't know what to do for the best...
So we pressed ahead with trying her with some cooked milk - rice pudding. She had two episodes of really foul smelling diarrhoea the day after... She also seemed uncomfortable at bedtimeVery similar to what she had the first time we tried to introduce dairy much less gradually when it lasted for a week.