to be really pissed of my DR is an hour late!

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DS is lactose intolerant so gets prescription milk has been for 5 months now he is 6 months i have to start weaning him on to milk, little by little in 6 weeks try him with one bottle of normal formula (once he is used to milk in his food) so that all fine.

Yesterday i phone the DR to order his repeat prescription to be phone back and told the DR has cancelled it because he's 6 months and needs weaned from it! I had to explain to the receptionist the ins and out of why this was wrong before she would make me an appointment for the DR to phone me so I and explain it to the DR. So spent all last night wondering how the DR can think wean at 6 months means stop dead called HV to confirm i'm right she told me no way was i to put him straight on to 5 normal bottles a day it would make him really ill tell DR any problems phone back.

So now i'm sitting waiting for the idiot DR to phone for my 9.15 phone appointment so i can tell her how it bloody works i can actually feel my blood boil with every min that goes by. I timed DS nap to go down for 9.45 so i can get showered and go out for 11 now i'm not going to be able to shower until he's up and will be late!

sorry for the rant but i'm so annoyed this is not the first problem i've had with this DR they 'forgot' about is last week and we had to wait an hour n a half with a starving DS in the waiting room!

Still no phone call.

In the real world they are not used interchangeably and perpetuating that only makes it worse, especially if you have some knowledge...use it! Skin tests are for allergies, not intolerances. There are definitive tests for lactose intolerance, readily available that don't need an exclusion diet.

There is so much misinformation given, even by doctors, on something that isn't that difficult. I've heard of plenty of people who are breastfeeding told to avoid dairy as the baby might be lactose intolerant. So, the lactose that is inherent in breastmilk wouldn't be a problem then, but the lactose from cow milk already broken down before it reached the breastmilk would? Ridiculous, illogical bullshit.

PENIS, and of course you can't grow out of a missing gene, but it is quite common for babies to develop secondary problems with enzyme production after having gastric illnesses - this they tend to grow out of 6 months to a couple of years later.

I know PENIS , but people are resistant to learning stuff sometimes! BUT yes, honestly, substances CAN pass through the gut and into breast milk unchanged by digestion (whole molecules), and CAN cause reaction (drugs, food, alcohol).......

signing off the thread, have things to actually do!

I know all that. But PP said from BIRTH, which is a entirely different, and far rarer, thing.

I know substances can pass into breastmilk, but lactose is not one which is unchanged, and even if it were, would be dwarfed by the natural lactose in breastmilk.

People being resistant to learn is no excuse to keep using misleading and wrong terminilogy. And really if your child has an actual problem and you're still resistant to learning, well, I depair.