Dairy Intolerance Weaning

[dizzylizzie78]

Help!!

We have recently found out that my 6 month old son is Dairy intolerant. He has been put on Neocate by the hospital. Before this all happened He was doing really well with weaning! I have started weaning again and found that he is only really wanting fruit! A dietician at the hospital told me that I could give him ready brek.... which I have given him..... but just found it has milk in it!.... Lesson learned I need to check every thing. Finding this really stressful and need ideas of foods that I can give him. I have tried him on Jars and he will not eat them unless the veg is mixed with fruit.

Any ideas or recipes will be very gratefully received.

Ready Brek doesn't contain any milk, but is produced in a factory that handles milk, hence the "not suitable for milk allergy sufferers" warning on the box. Did your son suffer a reaction to it?

Hi. My son also has a dairy allergy but it wasn't officially diagnosed until he was nearly two (although the doctor just took my word for it and gave me prescription formula from 6 months when I wanted to stop bf). He also would only eat fruit and then some sweet veg for the first few weeks of weaning - I wondered if it was because I'd kept trying baby rice and porridge and other things with cow's milk in, which just made him ill (it took me a while to realise it was the milk causing the problem). I wouldn't worry though as some children just stick with one or two things at the start of weaning. Or you could try mixing fruit with cereal or putting some on some bread...

I don't think Ready Brek does contain milk - it's just ground up oats, isn't it? Certainly the supermarket own brands don't but they have added calcium, which is really good as most non-dairy foods don't have a lot of calcium in or you'd have to eat an awful lot to get enough calcium.
Although we have to avoid a lot of ready made foods because they contain milk or milk protein, you will find that you get to know what your son can or can't have pretty quickly and you can substitute soya milk for cow's milk in recipes. Vitalite spread is non-dairy and most cooking margarine is too (for baking cakes etc - when he's a bit older!).

One thing I've discovered with my son is to avoid anything that says "contains milk" under the allergy advice, but he is ok with things that say they're not suitable for milk allergy sufferers due to the method of production. Obviously you'd have to avoid those too if your child had a life-threatening reaction to dairy products, but if it's a milder reaction then he should be able to have them (makes things a bit easier).

It does get easier though - the weaning and dealing with an allergy.

on the ideas of what to give him, I'd suggest looking at Plum baby and Ella's kitchen, I seem to remember some fruity savory meals like pear and lamb, it's been a long time since I weaned my lo though!

We found out as weaning started, and we did BLW, alongside breastfeeding so, I gave up dairy too and DD ate the same as I did. Porridge oats are safe, and lots of cereals such as shreddies, shredded wheat and Weetabix are fine too.

My son has what some might call a mild dairy allergy- he failed to put weight on, dry skin, and runny poo. However, although he was always ok with 'may contain dairy' he reacted badly to readybrek- had to shower him down 3-4 tumes daily after poo explosions. We stuck to plain old oats after that!
He us now 17 months and doing very well on a reintroduction plan, hopefully he has grown out if his allergy fully now!