Lactose free milk

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My ds (9 years old) suffers from pretty bad eczema. He's got all the creams etc. My niece's eczema got a lot better when she started drinking lactose free milk. I would like to try and put ds on lactose free milk for a while to see if it helps.

Does lactose free milk have all the important nutrients that normal milk has? DS is short and a picky eater so I am a bit careful with changing his diet.

YABU - LF milk has the same amount of healthy nutrients
YANBU - LF milk has fewer nutrients than normal milk

Is one of these inferior to the other?

Sorry @Pestispeeved I'm trying to make sense of the two tables but can't read them properly on my phone. It looks like slightly less protein, calcium, fat and calories. I can't see the B12 value on the normal milk table. So there is a difference, probably based on reduce sugar content but not a massive difference. Is this right?

My son has a dairy allergy and we were advised by his consultant to give him unsweetened soya milk as it is fortified with the extra nutrients he would have gotten from cows milk. Might be another option if your ds will tolerate it.

Arla lactose free blue milk is whole milk, most of the supermarket own is uber processed from reconstituted milk powder and spikes bloodsugars,for me at least.

Its worth a try, also raw milk and goats milk could be eorth a try if lactose free dosent work out, it still triggers intolerance in some people because of the homogenization, raw milk is completely unprocessed with enzymes and bacteria that helps digestion and vitamins are bioavailable unlike in pasteurised milk where due to heat treatment they are reduced or not available at all.

Lactose free just has the lactose broken down and is still.cows milk.

Alternatively you could try a dairy free milk if lactose free doesnt help

Everyone is different so what works for me might not work for your son.
I have eczema and couldn't tolerate lactose-free milk at all.
It's the dairy that my skin reacts to, not the lactose.

As others have suggested, it's worth trying goats milk, dairy free milk with added calcium etc.
Just remember to go dairy free on everything he eats and drinks for a few weeks while you see whether it makes a difference to his skin or not.
There's no point in just changing his milk but still giving him food/drinks that contain dairy....

Also, a lot of DF milks are quite thin and watery which might put him off if he's a bit picky (not criticising, I'm the pickiest eater in the world !), so maybe try the barista versions (some of the oat milks have them) as they seem to be a bit thicker and may be a bit more similar to cows milk in that regard

@RenderingItAllFlat there is little difference if you buy the Arla whole lactose free milk, just less sugar (because lactose is sugar). The milk is fine, the cheese is rather average.

Buy some lactose free milk and cheese, try it out on him for a couple of weeks, does the eczema get better. You also have to become a label reading freak and exclude all other milk stuff. It is a faff and only worth a permanent change if it has a noticeable effect. Then go back to normal milk, does it get worse again (this bit is important as going lactose free means you tend to eat a lot less dairy and change your overall diet).

DC2 got on well with sheep milk, but it is a bugger to try and buy.

When you get to a bigger screen, the lactose free is the one that does 5 servings.

Reading for later
https://www.arlafoods.co.uk/brands/lactofree