advice please on 'puddings' - dairy intolerance

[misscutandstick]

DS5 (2.11y) is intolerant to: gluten, wheat, soya, dairy, eggs, bananas, annato.

Is there ANY soft 'puddiny' deserts for when his brothers have say yoghurt or ice-cream - or indeed ANY pudding at all, as they all seem to need milky-gluten-egg stuff?

DS5 has quite truly had enough of sorbet!

Really hoping that you have some magic ingredient that i havent heard of yet [praying icon]...

Kalo - my 14mth old DD loves the hipp banana rice pudding too

When I see it in the supermarket, I have to buy about 20 at a time as it sells out so much.

Must live in an area with lots of LOs who are dairy intolerant!!

Well I went to the health food shop and looked at that chocolate pudding as promised - even wrote down the ingredients - and then got back to read this thread again and found that Trixy had already got in there first with a link[grrr]. It is the same pudding. We have had it in the past and I find it quite pleasant. DS got stomach ache from it but that was over a year ago now and he tolerates everything much better now.

I hope your find something to your DS liking - you certainly have some good suggestions here.

Sorry!!!!!

It was lovely of you to go to all that effort!

buckwheat pancakes made with rice milk and egg replacer? (my family have a love affair with buckwheat pancakes ). Add sultanas, honey, blackcurrant jam or possibly Sainsburys summer fruit sauce.

There have certainly been some fantastic ideas! thankyou all so very much!

Im intrigued by the buckwheat thing... is that safe for him?

DS5 cant have bananas ATM, so the Hip pots are out for the time being.

just gonna check out the link, thanks!

had a good look at the links, thanks! they sound great!

but i was wondering about the 'oatly' stuff, i understand oats have gluten in them, but it seems to suggest that it is at a 'safe level for children to drink' - how safe?

DS5 has had the coeliac blood test, but it came back clear - but he is very obviously intolerant to it, that and wheat and a whole host of other stuff, however he can manage 'barley malt extract' so long as its not first in the list of ingredients. with this in mind, do you think it would be worth a try, even if only to expand his dietary range?

i ask because rice milk is sooooo watery and if its possible to make an ice cream from the other stuff, well... it might be the 'magic' ingredient im looking for...

??? what do you think?

PS i understand that i could get some and see if hes ok with a bit, was just wondering what they who know, thought?

Have your tried almond milk? It is thicker than rice milk and quite tasty IMO.

im a bit reluctant to go near nuts - i have a bad reaction to them - and with the fact that he has so many other intolerances, im just a bit nervous.

we have a good stock of doves flours too! we have to use sunflower 'pure' and trex - last attempt to make biccies (which DS5 doesnt like an awful lot anyway) turned into a complete mess .

Ooh and BTW tried the oatly and he seems to be okay but he only had a bit - made some rice pudding with it, tasted quite nice, much to everyones surprise!

Hi there, I am really sorry to hear your son has so many allergies it must be really hard for you trying to create new and exciting puddings! My DS who has just turned 2, has an allergy to milk, eggs whites and fish but we have only discovered this by trial and error. How did you find out about all your DS allergies?

Just like you really i suppose laura:

DS5 was always a sicky baby, and sometimes difficult to feed. I was sure at 4wks there was something wrong and he only had breastmilk at that point. I swapped him to formula at 8wks (if id have known what the probs were id have kept up the breastfeeding!).. and things went from bad to worse! every formula seemed to make him worse, sicky, gassy, crampy. the GP assured me all babies were like this. I knew they werent after all this was my fifth baby and none of the others were like that!

anyway we ended up with C & G comfort which was the best of a bad bunch.

weaning came and went and he got worse and worse. Egg made him throw violently, as did bananas. Then things got even worse - he had regression, stopped pointing, stopped waving, he never babbled anyway, but he stopped smiling and interacting at all .

By this point he had very little energy, was practically grey, had constant alternating diarrhea and constipation, and we were avoiding certain foods that made him hurl.

the dietician advised to remove ALL milk, which we did and i couldnt believe the difference in him! looked healthier more energy, and started looking at people again - he even started to answer to his name after a couple of months! Because we removed milk, we put him on soy milk - the diarrhea remained, but we didnt realise we had swapped one intolerance for another!

After 8wks of milk removal, we removed gluten as well. OMG it was horrendous!!! his behaviour was even worse - he self harmed more (scratching his face, nipping hiself etc) and he started headbanging too . he screamed for a week practically non-stop - but i had been warned that if his behaviour got worse, then it was working and he had an addiction which was causing withdrawal symptoms, it was heartbreaking. that lasted about a week, before he started calming down again.

He still had diarrhea, so we were still missing something. so we swapped the soy milk to rice milk, and it ALMOST stopped. so we removed wheat and it cleared up overnight - no more 'blips'.

DS5 is 3 next month and is still non-verbal, but he has learnt to do some basic makaton and he is full of life now, very loving, and happy. he probably is autistic in some way - but we will have to wait and see.