My 13 mo dd is on SMA LF, when can I start to use Soya Milk on her breakfast?

[mrsbarryscott]

Anyone now?

Any advice on this subject welcome by the way.

Thanks.

does she have an allergy? the research seems to show that kids who are allergic to cows milk (i think thats what is in sma?) may well be allergiv to soya too

my research shows that soya milk can be high in sugar and lacks vitamin D so check out what you buy

rice milk, goats milk and oat milk are also alternatives to consider

Hi dd was on the same fornula but with her breakfast we introduced normal milk at 14 months. She was fine with it.

Just to add the soya milk gave her really bad constipation.

A nutritionist told me that rice, oat milk etc are no replacement for soya or dairy milk because they don't have the protein or mix of vitamins.

My DS is dairy intolerent and I am just trying him with soya formula at the moment. He seems okay on soya milk but like newgirl I wasn't sure about the sugar content. I am keeping my fingers crossed about soya allergy.

As far as I'm aware, children who are sensitive to cows milk are in many occasions sensitive to goats milk. They may not be so sensitive to soya milk but considering what a strong allergen soya is, it is sometimes recommended to avoid it if you can.

But you can use rice milk but check you get the calcium enriched one. However if he is fine with the L free formula I would keep it in that for longer as the formula would be far more nutritive than any milk substitute.

DS was in formula until he was 18-19 m old, and has been put back on it now (4.5 yrs old) as he has become allergic to all the other alternatives. Obviously I'm sad about the allergies but he seems to be better now that he is back in formula

The doctor's haven't diagnosed an allergy but have been prescribing LF since she was 4 months old. When I ask the Dr/HV about testing for an allergy they don't seem to want to do this and keep telling me that lactose intolerance is temporary.

I have started to introduce yoghurts and food with milk products in and she seems totally fine.

I'm wary of introducing neat(!) cow's milk into her diet and thought that maybe soya was an alternative.

Those of you who have introduced cow's milk or soya into the diet, did you do it gradually, ie mix it with formula milk until it got up to just cow's milk?

On the advice of the dietacian we introduced milk in stages- fiorst stage was milk in baked goods (aparently that denatures the allergens or something for some people)- eg buscuits. After 2 weeks (each stage 2 weeks) then cooked milk in smalla amounts- eg rice pud; then yoghurts with live cultures, then yoghurts without; then cheese ; then small amunts milk.

if he showed a reaction, to pull back and stay at the previous level a monh, then try again skipping problematic stage

I mixed cows milk with formula when DS was about 15m old, he got in a rash so I put him back in formula for a few more months, then re introduced it again and he seemed fine. We didn't now he was allergic to milk until a year later when he had a test after a reaction to another thing. We only realised how much it was affecting him until we removed it from his diet, you wouldn't believe the change!

However, yoghurt and hard cheeses are easier to diggest than milk. It is very encouraging that he seems not to have a problem, why not to try him with cows milk and only resort to milk substitutes if they are really needed?

BTw kids with lactose reactions ime ok with goats miilk- kids like ours 9and me) with casein intols react to goats milk. Soya is known as an allergen in many kids who have milk allergies, its also problematic in formulas because of its high sugar level- ds1 has lost many teeth, niece ahd to ahev all hers removed. DS3 was prescribed a lactofree formula (enfamil) which seemed to make a difference- whether he ahs a lactose intol rather than the family casein reaction is questionable. Neocate and other hypoallergenic formulas are good, but the enfamil is extremely palatable and even I liked it! He's just gone on to carton soya at 4 years

Mrsbarryscott same situation as us. We put dd on LF SMA at five months after I had been bf her exclusively. Then at 14 months we started her with milk in her cereal and yogurts, all was fine. She stayed on her LF formula until she was 19 months and then went onto milk and we've had no problems at all. She was never allergy tested either as the doctor told us it wasn't necessary.

id try the cows milk gradually - say half and half?

good point about the milk alternatives - they apparently lack vit d so you need to be providing a relly good mixed diet the rest of the time too

You can start by mixin one part of milk to x parts of formula and gradually increase the amount.

Peachy, DS is OK with casein but not with the other parts of milk. He now can tolerate goats cheese if we don't use it often but still reacts to goats milk.

I posted a thread about moving to cow's milk from formula a few weeks ago. Had loads of different advice, but the resounding advice was, just swop. I've just moved (last week), and literally, just swapped one day. DS hasn't even noticed the difference !