To cut out dairy and eggs or not and for how long?

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DD (13months) is is allergic to cows milk and eggs. I breastfed from birth and am still feeding. When she was born she had explosive yellow poos, up to 12 a day. Very windy, poor sleeper - I remember asking the health visitor in despair if there was something wrong, she said it was normal. Another one said it was colic and suggested gripe water. Then she went through a period of green poos - different health visitor said I wasn't feeding her long enough before changing breast. I asked both if they thought it could be milk allergy (my cousin was allergic as a baby) and both brushed me off. She always had dry skin but by 4 months she had developed eczema, diagnosed by the Gp but never getting better despite all the creams she gave me. I asked her again about allergy and she said it was just eczema. I didn't feel she listened to me so read a bit on the internet and tried a milk free diet for 2 weeks. It didn't seem to make a difference (though now I'm not sure I did it properly - I didn't think to check food labels). When I started weaning her, she had came up in a rash when I gave her yogurt and egg. We've just been to the allergy clinic and again I don't feel listened to - her skin test was positive for milk and egg and I told them that I'd tried to go milk free myself but wasn't sure I'd done it properly and it hadn't made a difference. They didn't tell me to do it again or to stop breastfeeding but did give me formula to add into meals instead of cows milk and said to avoid eggs. I'm feeling guilty feeding her when her skin is so aeful, but I'm really confused as I font know whether I'm making it worse, or if changing my diet or stopping breastfeeding will help her. If I'm honest, I did feel a bit of negativity from the doctors about still breastfeeding but not sure if that's because of her age or because I'm poisoning her. Is it possible that she has a milk allergy thats NOT affected by breastfeeding (or is that impossible). The more I read, the more confused I get and I don't feel very supported by the hospital. Help!

I think you have no clue what you meant. Bless. Have a steak.

would Not and Miss Bax like to stop the thread derail now please, or take it elsewhere.

OP, here are some things to look for on food labels if you need to cut out milk from your diet. I find the allergens only in bold type in the ingredients list harder to spot than as it used to be, a list at the end.

Milk also goes under other names you may not realise are milk, Lactose, Casein, Whey, whey powder.
It's in all sorts of things, bread, biscuits, cakes, confectionery even lots of mints, coatings on crisps, coatings on savoury snacks, coatings on "fries" which often just look like oven chips so be doubly careful, my dd reacts adversely to 0.01% on those.
Some flavourings on peanuts, lots of ready made sauces, lots of ready made food particularly cooked ham, turkey and some chicken.
In other words, read the labels on absolutely everything that's had a modicum of processing.
It's not as difficult as it sounds, you'll get used to it.
Good Luck and non-allergenic

"Bless" 😷😷😷😷

Coming in very late to the thread but my DS1 was (is) anaphylaxic to egg and milk, reacts to the smallest trace, yet I didn't give up either when BF (didn't know you had to, it was a long time ago) and it fidn't affect him.

There was a Web chat with an allergy doctor on here a few years ago and I asked about this. He said in some cases it doesn't seem to go into the breast milk.

I will try to find it tomorrow.

Some very helpful posts from Idontneedanotherhero everysmile pananipanoo and kilicat to name just a few (i will take you up on the pm offers, thanks). The advice on food labels is really helpful - that's what made me realise I hadn't done it properly and it just seems so hard, I'm not sure I'd be able to do it properly. Someone posted a link to nice guidance - it says to cut out dairy but I don't know if the advice applies to her. And it doesn't mention egg - should I do that too? I dint like to complain but I suppose as someone else said, yes I do feel a bit let down (by my gp and health visitor mainly) and felt as if I was making a fuss. I think I either need to go back to the hospital (maybe with a list of what I want to say?) or get another opinion.