Reintroducing Milk, help needed please!

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My daughter was diagnosed with a cow's milk allergy at about 4 months. She was exclusively breast fed until then and it all went horribly wrong!
She's now 16 months old, thriving and wonderful but I need to start introducing cow's milk back in. The dietician's advice was to start with something like a biscuit with milk in and see how that goes. I was told about a pyramid type thing with cow's milk at the bottom, things like yoghurt towards the bottom and the less like milk it looks the nearer to the top it goes as the proteins are broken down in processing and cooking. Anyway, that was about it on the advice!
So, have emailed the dietician had nothing back, so has anyone out there done it already and can you please tell me what order did you introduce things and how long did you wait between new things please. And how did it go. I must confess to being very scared of making her poorly!

Thanks in advance supermums!

My son had the same thing at four months, although I only managed a few days of breastfeeding.

Nobody advised me on how to reintroduce cows milk into his diet. I was pretty much left to it once he was discharged from hospital. I think that he developed a temporary intollerance to the proteins in cows milk following an upset tummy (that the HVs didn't pick up on even when his stomach started bleeding but that's another story, don't get me started).

I totally went against the advice you've been given, and started him off with quite obvious dairy like cheese and fromage frais. He was still drinking the specialist formula, but each time he ate something with cows milk in it we were on nappy alert to check for signs and at least this time I knew what to expect and why, if there was a problem. But we were lucky and he's been fine ever since.

I'd go with the softly softly and just try things with a little dairy in that have been through some kind of preparation first and see how you go. Good luck.

We have reintroduced dairy to our little one who had a cows milk protein allergy. We tried malted milk biscuits first, then other products with cooked dairy, then butter, then fromage frais, then milk on cereal. We do not yet give her milk to drink. This has taken 2 months but has been relatively stress free.

It all depends on the child, but I would follow the advice you have been given.

We reintroduced dairy a year ago, after his alst test shown negative for milk (he even had sips of milk in the 3 hours long test) but he still can't have dairy regularly without getting in trouble. He can manage cheese as long as it is only once a week, more than that and the eczema is back, he gets a stuffy nose and the asthma gets wild. Milk in a daily basis? I will land him in the hospital in less than 10 days. So... better to do it gradually as advised.

There really is no rush, my dd was diagnosed as lactose intolerant at 12months and she only started drinking milk when she was about 6.

We just slacked off a bit and weren't so vigilant.

thanks for that ladies.

There just never seems to be a right time! We had a biscuit yesterday and all seemed well but she wasn't fussed over tea last night, been fine all day, did a massive poo (sorry!) at half 4 and has ended up going to bed hours early having been grizzly since and not wanting tea tonight.

Is it the biscuit or is it the teeth cos there are four of them causing bedlam! Oh dear. The next thing is to wake her for milk she usually has at half seven or not...... Now or wake hungry at some silly hour I reckon!