What if the dairy/soy allergy lingers beyond a year?

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DS is 4.5-months-old, breastfed only, and with colic now over, a few days ago I thought I'd experiment with some goat brie after long suspecting dairy made him gassy. Big mistake. He had blood and mucous in his stool for two days, and was awfully crampy and unsettled.

I've been told to avoid dairy and soy for the first year of his life and reintroduce slowly at that point. But has anyone had a child whose dairy/soy allergy lasted beyond a year? Was breast-milk their only form of dairy, if you will, or did you manage to introduce, say, goat milk over cow's milk at that point?

I bf for 2 years as the only option was hypoallergenic formula after a year as oat milk etc is not nutritionally adequate enough to replace cow's milk and DS wouldn't take the formula. From age 2 onwards he has had oat milk as a replacement for cow's milk.

Goat milk isn't recommended as the proteins are very similar to cows milk and most are allergic to that too.

DS was diagnosed at under a year. He's now nearly three and still can't have any dairy. He can have a small amount of soya now but reacts if he has more than one portion per day.

The hospital told us that the majority of children grow out of it by age 5. I'm hoping DS will be in that majority.

In terms of food, he has oat milk on cereal. He still has a bedtime breast feed (and I'm still dairy free). He's learnt to ask if it contains milk before taking food.

Mine is 19 months and I was able to start to introduce products with cow's milk in at around a year. He can now have yoghurt and cheese but not cow's milk itself. He was highly intolerant (like yours it sounds) and I wasn't able to have any other mammal's milk at all for around 8 months, after which I could start to introduce bits and pieces. No problem now - I can have cow's milk on cereal for instance.

He gets his milk from me and he also has oat milk as a drink and on cereal.

Every child is different but there is a hope that he will grow out of it.

I remember the last time I was home, oat milk seemed very popular in the UK. Is this preferential to almond and hemp, or is it simply a case of it being more readily available?

When trying to introduce dairy, organiccarrotcake, what did you introduce first? Did any of you give your kids calcium tablets, too, or are breastmilk/dark green veggies etc. sufficiently loaded?

We tried all the various oat/coconut/hemp milks and Oatly was just the one we liked best. The Oatly in red packs has added vitamins. I don't give DS vitamin tablets, mainly because he is phobic about taking any medicine, even calpol. I just aim for a good diet.

Oat milk is a bit more readily available than almond or hemp milk, tesco, asda, sainsburys and Morrisons all stock it. Rice milk has too high an arsenic content for kids and soya milk is out , so Oatly is your best bet.

my ds only has a mild cmp intolerance rather than a full blown allergy (but bad enough that I had to cut cows milk out of my diet). At 6 months he couldn't tolerate any dairy but by 8 months he could manage cheese & butter (and i could have dairy agan too), by 9 months he could manage a soya pudding. He's 9.5 month now and I have tried fromage frais again but its still a no go. I will try fromage frais again at a year, if successful move on to yogurt and progress like that. I don't expect him to ever tolerate pure cows milk as my dh, fil and dn's are all intolerant. We use oatly milk with the added calcium etc... for breakfast (actually is great milk replacement for everything except a cup of tea).

We don't use vitamins either and try (!) for a good diet