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Dd nearly one and intolerant to cows milk what do I give her?

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JillM · 13/06/2006 16:27

My dd is intolerant to cows milk and I don't know what to give her when she is one as soya is not suitable as the main milk supply until two. Any suggestions to or for rice milk, goats milk?? Any other advise please!!

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JillM · 13/06/2006 16:28

My dd is intolerant to cows milk and I don't know what to give her when she is one as soya is not suitable as the main milk supply until two. Any suggestions to or for rice milk, goats milk?? Any other advise please!!

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MitchMatch · 13/06/2006 23:33

I use a goats milk baby formula called Nanny. You can get it from chemists and health shops and there are a couple of other goats milk brands avail. I've seen another thread where someone said that if baby is intollerent to dairy that you might be able to get the formula on prescription from the doctor. Worth a shot as its more expensive than the dairy and soy ones.

psychomum5 · 13/06/2006 23:46

why is soya not ok?
3 of mine have milk allergies and two were on soya formula from 8mths (when I gave up BF) to now in fact and DD2 is 10 DD3 is 7. cow & gate infasoy.
DS2 is on prejomin formula and has been from 2mths as my breastmilk just didn't help:( and is 4 in july. I will keep him on it as long as he needs...

info on both tins are suitable for children and adults!

psychomum5 · 13/06/2006 23:48

info should read...infants, children and adults. SorryBlush

MummyPig · 14/06/2006 09:35

JillM, has this been diagnosed by a doctor or dietitian, and is she fully formula fed? If so, they should be able to advise and/or prescribe a suitable formula - you can get 'pre-digested' versions which are less likely to provoke reactions, but they are probably very expensive if you try to buy them yourself. If you haven't seen a doctor about it yet, you could try - I know (from my experience) that you have to be determined to get them to realise you are serious and that you have investigated it fully, but once they believe you they should be able to offer you options.

Are you thinking about the 1yr cut-off because that's when many people start giving their children normal cow's milk as opposed to formula? I don't think you necessarily have to switch at this stage, whatever baby milk she's been drinking is probably still good for her.

if your dd is breastfed you shouldn't have to worry about finding a 'milk' subsitute, although you might have to cut cow's milk out of your diet, and make sure you offer her lots of food with calcium (e.g. hoummous, bread, eggs, calcium fortified juice, sardines or salmon with bones, figs, seeds). There are some good ideas for non-dairy calcium foods on the Vegan Society website. The people on the 'allergies' topic will probably give you some other good ideas.

Approx 60% of milk intolerant children also develop reactions to soya, so that's a good reason why you shouldn't give soya formula to your dd. (My ds1 had cow's milk intolerance and I had very bad advice, gave him soya formula from about 8 months and he then developed a reaction to it. Now (4yo) he can tolerate small amounts of cow's milk protein but soya is still a problem - and it is in virtually every food so very hard to avoid.)

Soya formula tends to be more sugary than standard formulas, another reason to avoid it. Also, soya formula has been around for less time than cow's milk based formula, so the 'experts' say that it is not as well developed, although I'm dubious about this statement given that the general public is given very little information about how normal formula is created. I have also seen research that implies that if a child is doing okay on soya formula, there's no reason to change them, so your kids should still be alright psychomum5.

If you're thinking about the soya 'milks' that adults use, they are not as nutritionally complete as a formula, so that's another reason it is suggested to leave them until children are older.

Children intolerant to cow's milk can also develop reactions to goat's milk if they have too much of it, so although some people use it as an alternative I would recommend introducing it slowly instead of using it as your main milk substitute. My ds now eats goat's cheese quite happily but has calcium fortified rice-milk on his cereal. It seems that if you want to avoid reactions it's important not to depend too strongly on one food source.

Sorry, don't know how fully you have investigated this, so apologies if you know all the information on this page already, however \link{http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthissues/foodintolerance/foodintolerancetypes/milkallergy/?view=textonly\this page} is a useful summary of the issues with milk intolerance or allergy.

hope that helps

bresha · 15/06/2006 09:43

my dd has just turned 1 and she’s lactose intolerant. i give her SMLLF, i get it prescribed by the doctor( i had to go down and shout at him to get it) and i also give her rice milk, i was told that Soya isn’t good for baby girls(but i dont know if thats true or not). You should defiantly get your doctor to refer you to an allergy clinic, they should be able to tell you if it an intolerance to cows milk or if its just lactose she cant handle. they can then test for allergies for other things (although they might not test for intolerances but its nice to know).
They will give you support and you will talk to a dietitian who will be able to advise you!

matnanplus · 18/06/2006 20:20

Bresha was just going to say about SMA LF, it is clinically lactose free.

baby BOYS should not have soya has soya has/mimics female hormones.

Many CM allergy children react to soya.

It all depends on whether the allergy is to lactose or Cows Milk Protein, if lactose then SMA LF is ideal and available on Rx and suitable for use thru life and for cooking with.

If she had CMP allergy then there are non dairy formulas like nutramigen

SabineJ · 18/06/2006 21:16

JillM, it depends what is your dd intolerant to. It is possible that she will happily accept goat milk (DS1 did) but also possible that she will react to it (DS2 did).
Other alternatives for cooking etc ... are as you suggested rice milk, oat milk. You should avoid almong milk because of the increase risk of developing allergy to nuts.
You can get some special milk but they taste disgusting and you DON'T have to use them for cooking.
If you are thinking of yogurt, goat milk is the best because you can get goat milk yougurst (and butter). Otherwise, you will have to get creative and prepare some custard with rice or oat milk for example.
I am pretty sure that, for what the dietician told me at the time, that you could use only one of these if your dd is happy with it, as a replacement of cow's milk. My understanding was that her main concern was DS2 calcium intake and the way that I was using to substitute cow's milk wasn't imortant as long as it wasn't cow's milk or soya.
Are you followed by a dietician who could give you a bit more advise on that subject ?

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