Multiple allergies

[Nojo82]

Just found out that my 6 month old is allergic to dairy, goats milk, cats, S.L.S (chemicals found in shampoos, shower gels, soaps, washing liquid etc). And acids in foods. So basically a lot. Anyone any advice on foods I can gave, we started weaning at 14weeks on advice from hv but now I feel totally useless and dont know wat i can feed him.
Any help at all greatly appreciated

How did you pinpoint such a broad spectrum of allergies in such a short space of time?

I took him for private testing.

Can't really help on the cats we don't have any. But my son is dairy, soya, egg, and coconut free so far. we found tesco asda, sainsburys ect. had a great deal of foods recently in the free from range however they don't stock a lot of it in store (we had trouble finding certain products at times)
I do buy the Ella's kitchen organic baby foods their range is pretty much dairy free, I
Also buy oatly milk (can be found at tesco) and almond milk. Is your LO on a dairy free baby milk, if not it may be worth while taking the results to your gp and ask if they could refer you to a dietician. My local hospital holds groups with other parents so they can share their stories and advice with each other.
There's also a Facebook page (dairy and soya free) and we're all very helpful and post where we find new products and our recipes.
For the SLS allergy you may benefit from going to places like Holland and Barratt as they do sell natural soaps/shampoos ect which are natural and sls free, they also do a great range of milk free chocolate and other foods.

Hope this helps
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Thanks. Yes he has been on dairy free milk from he was about 8 weeks old but still problems persisted although not ad bad. Hes ok with soya apparently. I have a dietitian appointment on 2nd aug. My hv phoned them today to see if they will take him before i go on holiday on 14th july. Waiting on call back.
Yes i plan on going to holland and barrett tomorrow thanks. As for baby pouches including the ellas kitchen ones, he had bad reactions so i really dont know anymore.
Thanks for your response.

What reactions has he had? What can he not eat? When you say acids in foods, can you elaborate?

I have a great book which helped reassure me that he was receiving a balanced diet... Lucy Burney Optimal Nutrition for babies and Toddlers.

My son had a long list and it took a while to work out what he could and couldn't have. With time, the list of food he could have has gotten a lot longer though he is still allergic to peanuts, sesame and we largely avoid gluten and dairy.

I would advise looking at including long chain fatty acids in his diet (oils) and plant sourced vitamin C, D, and A as well as probiotics. This helped my son hugely.

(As well as removing many chemicals that he was reacting to... long list of things we did but it all definetly helped!!!)

When you say private testing....do you mean via an immunologist or via a private company that you sent a swab too??

I had a terrible time with my immune system and was referred to an anaphylaxis clinic at a hospital in a big city. Over the years my immune system has become less reactionary

What sort of place does testing for those things at 6 months old? And what do you mean by acids?

I would go and talk to your GP about this and take your test results with you. I would be wary of believing everything in such a test. To cut a lot of things out of your DC's diet requires medical supervision and careful monitoring. DD1 was allergic to almost everything you care to name and she lived on milk for the first 4 years of her life. If she ate 4 cornflakes in a day, I was ecstatic. She only began to eat properly after DD2 was weaned, and we reckoned that it was because she had never seen another child eat anything. Her diet was, and is, painfully limited, but we had medical support, such as it was back then, to try and keep her healthy.

Speak to your GP.

Take him to a private nutritionist who specialises in little children if you can as they have more in depth knowledge than dietitians IME.