CMPA - Outgrow or build tolerance?

[user0512]

Hi,

My DD who is two diagnosed with CMPA as a baby. Tried the milk ladder at one and she started getting eczema and reflux symptoms and would get tummy aches.

Tried again at 1.5 and she would still get reflux type symptoms and an upset stomach and eczema

Tried again at 2 and she had reflux, loose stools but no eczema.

She will be 3 in November - my question is, do I need to consistently reintroduce dairy into her system so her body builds a tolerance to it and doesn’t see it as a threat or do I just keep trying at regular intervals and hope she doesn’t react.

We’ve been discharged from the dietician who in my opinion wasn’t that helpful anyway. Is waiting long intervals causing her body to never adapt and does she need small exposure regularly to learn to accept it or would that be trying to rush her body and I should just try again in a few months and take a break again if she doesn’t tolerate it?

Not sure if I’m making sense but I guess my question is, will she just outgrow it herself and accept it one day randomly or do I need to build tolerance in her system over time?

TIA

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My daughter is a bit older, but the advice we got after a few failed ladder attempts was to start very very small and go at very tiny increments.

Views seemed to be mixed on push through and build tolerance vs bail. When I asked about this feedback was that it’s doesn’t seem conclusive one way or another, but need to take symptoms in account. If they’re something that can live with for a couple of weeks then can try pushing through. If it’s something with wider complications (eg constipation) then pushing through not advisable.

both of mine outgrew it

Mine was 4.5 when we successfully did the “milk ladder”. Didn’t keep trying to “build tolerance” (usually there was just some incident every few months where he mistakenly ate a bit of dairy and had symptoms so I knew to keep him off it). I just found that this time round he could have butter biscuits with no reaction, so kept going.