Am pretty certain dd4 has a milk allergy, shoud i avoid dairy?

[misdee]

this happened today

i spilt a drop of milk on her earlier when pouring older dd's drinks out and her arm came up in a blotch where the milk touched it.

am unsure if i need to avoid dairy, as she sometimes has a rash after feeding, but not always. she has always been mucousy, runny stools, snotty nose etc.

Hi Misdee,

I can't have milk products and use Alpro unsweetened in tea and on my cereal, I find the sweetened ones too sickly. After trying loads of different ones I found this the closest and less offensive taste.
I also have alpro yogs, Alpro cream, Alpro custard, Pure spreads and swedish glace Ice cream which is dairy free. I find all these things tasty. I also noticed Alpro have also started doing cheese, both creme and slices, but haven't tried these.

I have been able to buy all these items in my local Tesco, but sure you can find them fairly widely.

Hope this helps!

this happened today i put a drop of milk onto her back. am stopping weaning now, and will get allergy referral and dietician adivce for me after hols

a couple of articles about soya that you might be interested in:

soya formula (obv talking about baby milk, but the issues she writes about are relevant to any diet containing large amounts of soya)

guardian article

like anything else I am sure there are plenty of people out there who will say it's fine. it's another thing that just hasn't been researched enough IMO. But there are potentially risks, and I personally try and limit the amount of soya in my diet (despite having been basically vegan for over a year for ds2!!)

I didn't like rice or soy milk in tea - put up with rice milk for a bit and then switched to herbal tea...

Oh and meant to say re soy milk - we have always had a special milk from the hospital for DS1 here in France as they are very against soy milk as a main drink (whereas in NZ at age 1 they said he had to have soy if he wasn't allergic to it). Our allergy specialist has advised us to limit the amount of soy in his diet but she reckons the equivalent of 1-2 soy yoghurts a day is ok. I also use a bit in cooking but not very much.

Sounds like she may have the more extreme form of milk allergy, misdee. (My DS has the mild version). useful info here

Go to your GP (who, if they're anything like mine, won't have heard of milk allergy and will fob you off, or claim it's a lactose intolerance - which is totally different). Insist that you have DD tested at a proper, specialist children's allergy clinic.

Once tested they will advise you very well. Until then I recommend that you avoid dairy altogether.

I've always had tesco own soya milk in tea. Get the sweetened with apple juice and added calcium one in the long life section (it's blue). It's worth trying several different milks to see which you like best as they all taste slightly different.

Pure sunflower marg is nicer than the soya one. Soya yoghurt is lovely and the icecream is delicious.

We had soya formula on prescription for DS.

My son was anaphalatic to milk the advice was if he reacted on his skin to completely avoid. We were also told to avoid goats milk as the protein was too similar.

Reaction looks very similar to the skin reaction my son had and he only had baby formula. We also had a peadotrician who lacked knowledge on this who told us to take him home, give him a glass of milk and see what happens. be cautious of this type of advice.

He has nearly grown out of the allergy but had been advised to keep him dairy free to give his body chance to grow out of reaction.

I use so good soya in my coffee, different soya milks taste differently. My son is picky about which brand we get and thankfully only thing his picky about.