i know i'm being a total idiot, but breakfast ideas for dd4 please that dont involve milk

[misdee]

am feeling useless.

she is 6.5months old.

Toast
Toast
Toast
Toast
Raisins
Banana
Oaty ceral bar
Fruit puree
Toast

..... my DDs staple diet

dont mind hi-jack tree

will look out oat milk in tesco.

dd4 reaction to milk on her skin

am avoiding dairy as much as possible for me. which is hard

sorry - DS' not settling.

Treedelivery - what d'you want to know?

DS first showed signs of allergy/intolerance at about 4mths but it took until he was over a year to see a consultant, by which point he was on Neocate (which I found out about on here) and couldn't eat fruit/tomatoes/peppers/aubergines/potatoes/ red meat/dairy/wheat/soya/eggs and had become anaphylactic with sesame. I had to stop bf as the restricted diet was making me ill.

My paed consultant was useless (but in fairness I suppose they do have to be jack of all trades ) I basically walked in to see my GP and demanded he be referred. In London he's had IgE levels checked against certain allergens and skin prick tests (though I accept these can be unreliable and can give false negatives as well as positives depending on how the body is coping at the time)

DS is now 3 and we only avoid cow (milk/cheese/meat) pork / sesame / raw tomato & pepper / wheat / soya and egg (though now he's developed a dustmite allergy ) it's utter bliss in comparison to life before. Though we still can't eat out and parties are, well, avoided as much as possible at the mo but it is getting better

misdee that's a hell of a reaction!! I'd be knocking down the GP's door demanding some support! Take the photo with you when you go by the way - it helps them understand exactly what's going on.

oh i did iris. we are now waiting on an urgent referral to clinic

scrambled eggs or omelet

this may be a useful organisation to join - you register the allergen you're interested in and they send food alerts (post/e-mail) if a product labelling is wrong. The site has some pretty useful info on it too.

I kept my ds completely off dairy until a year as we have a family history of allergies, so IIRC breakfast was lot of porridge made with several different grains. I made millet porridge, polenta porridge and normal porridge made with oats. I used water in them all. I thought they were boak inducing, but ds liked them....

banana and your lil one could fingerfeed herself

a variety of fruit I suppose....

toast (unless you avoid wheat, of course)

anything eggy, if that is o.k. for her

iris66 - that's exactly what I wanted to know. Ta! I think I will be 'with respect I request a skin prick and IgE test' once dd2 has had a variety of food, so we get a true pic.

Am struggling with use of word only in your description of life. Here's me peeved at not having a cup of tea! I am glad it is getting better and I need to get a grip.

It sucks though I soooooo miss tea. I remember that pic from another thread. Our poor dc's!

I recommend Lucy Burney Optimum nutrition - as all recipes are dairy free till one, and she uses alternative food in a normal way. So for example, I now have a need for tahini in my life, instead of wanting a need for tahini. That to me a good book makes!

Iris66 - 'Am struggling with use of word 'only'' - as in it seems massive to me!

Must be hard for you and I admire your resolve and positivity.

will look for the book

i have an understanding alleries book recomendded when dd1 was little, but no idea where it is. it was falling apart whn i last saw it

will look for the book

i have an understanding alleries book recomendded when dd1 was little, but no idea where it is. it was falling apart whn i last saw it

thanks tree it's taken a long time to be positive as I blamed myself entirely (my other 2 are ok so I had to have a reality check)

Lucy Burney's book is great - I like Barbara Cousins "Cooking Wihtout" too. More recently I've been drawn to "Eat Right for your Type" by Dr Peter J D'Adamo (not everyone's cuppa but it works for me)

Before I go (33wks pg - need to go to bed ) - nut milks may be ok (tree nuts - hazelnut/almond) but be aware that reactions often happen on subsequent exposure - rarely on a first!)

Misdee - it has some odd ideas about bf, so be warned. I can email you any recipe ideas you like, they are short and simple, no bother.

My DS has
cheerios with rice milk
shreddies
bagels with pure spread
toasted teacakes with pure spread
toast
sausage sandwiches
potato waffles

M&S do white bread and teacakes without soya flour in if you are avoiding soya.

Haven't read whole thread, lazy! Have you tried expressing while feeding? It was the only way I could persuade more than an ounce out of my reluctant boobs!

thanks i think i'm going to dig out my breastpump and see how things go.

i spent ages in tesco reading labels on everything.

i bought some jarred food [slaps wrists] as dd4 seems to like them, but was very surprised at how many contained milk in some form.

i managed to ghet some cereal based things from the baby ailse as well, which are milk free but asre meant to be mixed with milk. i am going to used cooled/warm boiled weater and see how we go.

am hoping an appointment letter comes through soon

We were told that allergies tests under three where impossible at PDH hospital. However when my DS went into anaphalatic shock at 8 weeks they did allergy tests then. I think the answer you get will depend on who you see. We were lucky at 8 weeks and caught a top specialist. Most Peads know very little about allergies. You need a specialist in allergies. This is not only my experiance but that of one of our dieticians who is well respected but dispondant at the lack of knowledge of peads about allergies.

We have been dairy free for 4 years and rice milk is good for rice pudding (makes a more runny pud but fantastic with teasp cinamon)- especailly if there is an uncertainity over soya allergies.

Vitalite is both soya and milk free so that on bread was a basic for breakfast.

Plus there are some ready made baby food jars that are completely milk free for trips out - though you'll have to hunt as only some flavours of some brands.

Good luck!

Fruit,if tiny mashed up banana or pureed apple/pear.

Can you do eggs,scrambled?

dd loves fruited teacakes/teabread

We give weetabix with hypoallergenic formula to ds2 (12 months). This is pretty good as 1 weetabix will absorb quite a lot of the formula (around 4oz) and helps disguise the taste. Before we got the formula, or when I run out, I use calcium fortified rice milk or oat milk on his breakfast as I hate expressing (its such a faff, even with a hospital grade pump).

On rare occassions I sometimes give Farley's rusks (yes, I know, stuffed with sugar etc), but also fortified with calcium so 2 gives around 35% of his RDA.

If your baby is allergic to dairy then u should try and get a referral to a dietitian. I had a nightmare my GP would not accept that my daughter was reacting to food i was eating through my breast milk. Eventually my health visitor referred me. they can prescribe a formula like neocate lcp(completely dairy and soya free) which you can use with cereal. Also rice milk with added calcium is nicer for making puddings which can substitute dairy desserts later.

My baby who is 12 months now is allergic to dairy, soya, eggs and nuts also salicaylites (found in most fruit and vegs) so it was a nightmare devising a menu for her. For breakfast I started her on baby cereals, cow and gate cereal 6months plus banana sunshine is dairy and soya free then moved on to weetabix/oatabix which she loves mixed with her neocate lcp formula/rice milk although formula has more of the nutrients she needs as well as more calcium.
crumpets are dairy free
croissants are not!
most bread has soya so had to read all labels
vitalite spread is dairy and soya free.
bananas are really good to give young babies too rarely causes allergies.

I bought Anabel Karmels recipe book which was really useful gives lots of ideas, and made rice puddings to up her calcium intake for my daughter out of rice flour and rice milk which i froze.

Also dietitian has prescribed vitamin drops and calcium drops so she doesn't get deficient.

Hope this helps

Also its best to use rice milk/oat milk fortified with calcium with cereal until you get your formula, better than water!! its fine to use in food before 12 months as its not part of her main milk drink.

Plum Baby do an organic porridge that is gluten free and can be made up with water or expressed milk.

Tesco value soft spread is dairy/soya free and much cheaper than the pure spread (which I don't like the taste of). I also have a recipe for egg free pancakes which are pretty nice and I think would work with rice/oat milk too.

Quite a few of the Hipp cereals are dairy free too (although personally I resent paying 10 times the price for a didy little box of cereals when normal adult ones are fine). Also Hipp banana and rice pudding is dairy free as is the banana and peach one. The fruit purees with added cereal that Hipp do (called something like Fruity Breakfast?) are slightly higher in calories than the pots of pureed pure fruit.