mspotatochip, the lack of avaliabiltiy of prescribed goats milk has nothing to do with the GP not giving you further medical advice and support with intolerance and ige allergies.
the reason we all go through such a mess getting help with allergies is down to the lack of training of said GPs and lack of nhs funds to pay for a new lot of full time allergy clinics, and the shortage of docs wanting to be immunologists, (its just not a sexy subject for docs).
testing for intolerance in many forms out there, (mainly quack) give little in the way to true idea of intolerance, the only thing left to do that gives a better idea of what foods are the problem is a exclusion diet, followed by re- introduction.
of course the most common culprits are out there, milk and wheat etc, etc. and are the first port of call for infants on a milk only diet.
eczema as a symtom is not all down to food allergy, but pointers to ige , classic food allergy has eczema as a indicator , if it starts with a young infant under 3 months, esp breast fed infants.
anyway, am waffling, but a parent today has to make a lot of noise to get reffered to a pead immunologist, we get fobbed off then sent on a merry go round , of skin docs, asthma docs, who , again, have little training on allergy, and only use what info they have while being faced with the huge numbers of children with such food concerns.
the goat formula was removed because of fears over possible food poisoning due to to risk of milk being contaminated with the companies current policies , which dont fit in with the strict nhs health and safety polices.
thats why docs are not impressed with the stuff being sold in supermarkets.....
severe milk intolerance often means that goat milk cant be used, after all, its still a mammal, like us, so does cause some problems.
also its worth thinking about the fact that generations are looking for alternative milks, as they become intolerant to the current one avaliable, camel milk is now being mentioned as being the next best milk to try, when dealing with ezcema and intolerance.
our grandchildren may be the next generation of infants that cant tolerate camels milk, and so we will look towards another milk that may work, some other mammel to milk............dolphins? (shrug, who knows?)
so i would sugest going back to gp , asking for a refferal , get a nearest name from a allergy charity, and try again. if milk intolerant ask for a whole protien changed cows milk formula, and try it for at least 6 weeks . as this may be the length of time a gut may start to improve as its damaged by previous milk feed.
good luck.