Cows Milk Issues - 1 year old

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My daughter has been FF from a month old with SMA Gold for a week or so than Aptamil until now. We’ve had no issues bar awful reflux. This was controlled with meds & now she’s grown out of it thankfully!

At 11 months, I introduced cows milk into her cereal, so 3/4oz with porridge or weatabix. No issues.

At a year, I swapped her formula for cows milk, perhaps stupidly in one go (she only has milk at bedtime & with breakfast). She had a terrible reaction, her poos went to liquid, very yellow & about 8 a day

We left it a couple weeks but eventually decided it wasn’t settling & switched her back to formula. Doing this has settled her tummy.

On Friday, I re-introduced cows milk into her cereal only & within 3 hours, a yellow, awful poo. I tried again this morning, same reaction!

So now I’m confused.. it’s like she’s suddenly developed a sensitivity that wasn’t there previously?! She was fine with it in her cereal before! And she’s had formula so surely she can’t have a major allergy/intolerance?!

Any ideas? It’s such a shame as she was loving cows milk & doesn’t seem impressed she’s been given formula again!

Thank you!

How much milk does she drink at bedtime? Some little ones need a build up of the milk protein to cause a reaction so maybe she was ok with the amount she was having on her cereal but when it increased with her bedtime milk it was enough to cause a build-up reaction? The fact she's been ok with dairy formula suggests she's not overly sensitive so that would make sense to me x

I’ve got non-ige Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy OP and can react sometimes horribly and other times be more or less alright. Agree too that quantities can make a huge difference. I’ve decided to go DF completely and feel so much better for it.

Could be because the formula milk proteins are hydrolysed; allergies are a scale - it could be that it's serious enough to be triggered by milk, but not formula.

Try UHT milk - it's heat treated so might be okay.

I have a milk allergy and can tolerate two coffees a day. Any more and I get hives which don't go away. I also suspect DS has a milk allergy (plus another) - we've put him on oat milk. Unfortunately the doctor doesn't think he does... sigh...