Is it ok for DD (14mths) to drink cow's milk while we're in Majorca?

[ElleOhElle]

I will take a few cartons of formula just for ease on the plane etc but once we're there is it ok for her to drink their cow's milk?

why does she need formula at 14 months? full fat cows milk will be totally fine. I am a little confused.

So she can have a bottle on the plane if she needs it.

oh, well take a handful of cartons just for the journey there and back and use cows milk when there. :) have a nice holiday!

Yep, that's what I was thinking just wanted to make sure that it was ok for her to drink the cow's milk out there. Thanks

Why wouldn't it be ok for her to drink Spanish cow's milk? Really don't understand...

Don't know really, probably because you can't drink the water so wondered if there was something in th milk as well.....just being a bit paranoid I think.

We went twice to Majorca, when DD was 23 month and short of her 4th birthday.

We all drunk bottled water, still and sparkling. During the first trip she actually refused cows milk as it tasted differently to our British one. I think they pasteurise it differently. We had the same issue in Germany as well. Some kind of process to make the milk last longer.

She ate lots of yoghurt which are very yummy.

Last year she had no taste issues and had a glass of milk each morning. Spain is also big in UHT milk.

When we fly we normally buy a cup of milk after the security at one of the coffee shops and whatever she doesn't drink before departure we take with us.

Even if she totally refuses milk, no child dies if it doesn't drink milk during a 2-week-holiday.

All my children have been on holiday from very young - we've had no problem giving them cows milk from 12 months - 18 months depending on when we've been away.

We just used the local full fat milk.

There's nowt wrong with Spanish milk and there's nowt wrong with Spanish water....

Frank totally agree. Spanish milk isn't any different to British milk, it is pasteurised in exactly the same way.

Also, Spanish people tend not to end up in hospital with typhoid or diphtheria from drinking the local water either . It's not exactly a third world country people.

The tap water is perfectly drinkable, it just has a slightly different mineral content. Tour operators say that this can cause stomach upsets, but neither my family or anyone we know who lives in Spain has ever experienced this in over 10 years of drinking the tap water.

Of course, if you purchase UHT milk, it will taste different, just as it would if your purchased UHT in the UK.

Normal fresh, pasteurised milk from the chiller is exactly the same as in the UK.

She will be fine drinking 'spanish' milk honestly!!!! Enjoy your holiday.

Indeed diabolo. I lived there for 8 years until last October and appear to have managed...

@diabolo: We had the fresh, pasteurised milk and it does taste different. All milk which has a "shelf" life of two weeks has a different process than the milk which lasts only a couple of days.

UHT does taste different and that is the main reason we don't have it at all, it taste vile.

DD was fine with the forrin milk in Spain when she was about the same age.
I got a real taste for UHT milk when I lived in Spain. I love it on cereal.

Me too Ken - it ended up being the only stuff I would buy. It tastes nothing like the UHT of old.

If I wanted/needed real milk, pretty much everywhere sells Cravendale now.

hope you got all your vaccinations and malaria tablets too

Thanks for all your replies.

On a practical note, it might be a good idea to give her some UHT cows milk in the UK because fresh milk can in fact be hard to find in out of the way places in abroadland and the 'fresh' often does taste somewhere on the UHT spectrum (in France, for example it has a shelf life of 2-3 weeks so must be more highly pasteurised?) I've been doing this with my 1 year old DD in preparation for a trip to the Greek islands soon. She drinks formula, full fat normal milk and full fat UHt indiscriminately but it was reassuring to me to know that this is the case before our holiday. Now only the heat stroke, collapse of whole politic-economic system, etc to worry about!

Fresh milk is not hard to find in Menorca. Menorca is famous for it's dairy produce. Even the small, resort type supermarkets sell it. You can either choose Cravendale (exactly the same as you buy here). Or you can try the Menorcan version made by "Coinga". It is fresh, pasteurised, normal milk with a shelf life of about 4/5 days, lovely and creamy.

I'm sorry to drone on and on in reply to this thread, but anyone would think we were talking about the nether regions of Uganda. It's Menorca. Part of Spain. If you want UHT milk you can buy it, but like in my local Sainsbury's - it will be on a normal shelf in a cardboard pack, not in a 2.27 Litre plastic bottle in the fridge.

Does the phrase 'out of the way places in abroadland' not strike you as ironic, diabolo?! Sounds like you know about Menorca anyway - but you definitely can't find fresh milk in small shops in rural Brittany, for example, so it's not unreasonable to worry about it anywhere one hasn't been to before.

Feral apologies for being a grumpy arse, I appear to have lost my MN sense of humour these last couple of days.

hey, sorry, I was being grumpy too! That's the effect of a baby who is furious that she cant't yet walk...

my grumpiness is down to the effect of other MNers mostly. That'll teach me to stay away from AIBU.