my 11 month old allergic to milk, ill all the time and not gaining weight

[dollyjack]

Need some advice and generally some sympathy and help here. My 11 month old DS is allergic to milk so I mainly feed him on fruit/veg/ and he has meat and fish too plus milk free cerial in the morning. Since he started nursery in October he has been well for about two weeks. He's had every illness going in fact and now has croup! To add to all this he goes off his food and is rapidly loosing weight. He's so thin it's heartbreaking. He is still breastfed and at the moment and due to the croup, is feeding for most of the night for comfort in the main. I'm really at my wits end as to how to help him gain some weight. I'm sure I want to pull him out of nursary now as I can't bear to see him relapse again when he gets better. We have had our allergy test at clinic and Doc says he can have soya after he's one. Please we need to get him gaining weight soon. Any suggestions welcome! I should say that he's mixed race asian and both my husband and I are pretty small and thin (due to all this illness etc I am now very thin!)

Dolly, I can't add much as you've had some good advice already.

My DD is milk/soy/meat/rice/citrus allergic. Shes also really skinny, looks like Gollum when shes naked.

Your GP can prescribe MAXIJUL which is milk free, tasteless powder which you sprinkle on food or add to drinks. I found that honey was good for extra calories when she passed 1, although some babies react to honey. You can also get PURE margarine spread in Tesco, the yellow tub is milk & soya free and add that to usual food.

Beware meat, DD reacts to chicken even organic ones, but I think this is because they are feed soya. Also beef proteins are the same size as milk proteins, so can be enough to aggravate their system. I haven't had the guts to try fish yet.

Good luck.