Our 15 month girl was diagnosed with cows milk protein allergy at 11 months. She’d been having severe diarrhoea for over a month at this stage and it was the last thing the doctor said to try. She improved within days of cutting dairy out of her diet. (She had previously been fine with dairy so I assume it was a reaction to some sort of stomach bug? To be honest the dr was pretty clueless).
After cutting everything out we relaxed a bit and she’d have, and could tolerate, things with minimal cooked dairy in and even cheddar biscuits were fine so a month or so ago I was feeling pretty confident to try her on a small piece of cheddar. Diarrhoea happened after 4 hours and then for two weeks after she did this weird thing where she would vomit once a night sometime after her last (oat milk) bottle. This is even after making sure she had no dairy at all again.
Fast forward to today, she’s been symptom free and totally dairy free for a while so I gave her a malted milk biscuit. She vomited at bedtime. Urghhhh!!!
And now for my question(s), thanks for reading if you got this far.
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Can you develop cows milk protein allergy after you’ve been successfully eating it previously? Or could it be that she’s actually lactose intolerant?
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If she was happily eating cheddar biscuits before, why would a malted milk biscuit be so bad for her now? It’s almost as if her intolorance / allergy has gotten worse. Or is there a level at which you can tolerate and we went over and now her body it totally rejecting it? Or could it be that she’s now intolerant to something else too?
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The vomiting once a night thing was weird. I’d wondered if she’d got reflux from the cheese trial and it just stuck around for a bit? Has anyone experienced similar?
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Am I stupid or is all this genuinely confusing?!!