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1 year old soya milk

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Laurzz · 15/01/2024 20:35

My 1 year old has a suspected dairy intolerance. I'm making the move to soya milk. He hasn't taken to the soya milk, he pushes it away and screws his face up. Is it acceptable to try the sweetened soya? I've read so many mixed views on it. Please share first hand advice.

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Lollygaggle · 15/01/2024 20:38

Not in a bottle and only with meals. My first hand experience is taking out all an 18 month olds teeth because of soya milk in a bottle. Have you spoken to gp/dietician about replacement milks?

TeaKitten · 15/01/2024 20:41

I wouldn’t give a 1 year old sweetened milk. What does the GP/dietician recommend? Can you try it in sippy cups to make it a bit different?

dementedpixie · 15/01/2024 20:43

You get soya milk and oat milk for age 1+. Think its the Junior Alpro range and is found with the uht milks rather than in the fridge

Laurzz · 15/01/2024 20:48

So he's just turned one and not transioned from formula yet. We are under the GP at the moment but I was told I need to do a two week of non dairy before he's medically intolerant. We don't know for sure he is. It was the GP who reccomend Soya to us. I've not given him it in a bottle yet but I've been using soya in his breakfast. Usually, porridge or weetabix, he eats it no problem with formula.

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SisterMichaelsHabit · 15/01/2024 20:49

You need Alpro Growing Up Milk which comes in Soy or Oat, or you need Oatly Barista which is also well-fortified. Regular soya milks are not a substitute for cow milk. They make it by boiling soya beans in a pressure cooker and adding salt (also bad for toddlers). The organic ones aren't even fortified with vitamins.

Please don't do things like cutting out an entire massive food group without support from a knowledgable GP, HV and ideally a dietician as you are doing this very dangerously.

Your GP also needs to refer you to an allergy test because there's a raft of utter shite online making out that if your child has really normal digestive problems like loose nappies that they must have a milk allergy when that's basically the last of a long line of possible causes.

Without the vitamin D fortification, your child will get rickets and later, depression. Their bones won't develop properly because they won't be able to absorb calcium.

Without the calcium fortification their bones will be soft and break easily, they also won't be able to grow new bones so they'll be shorter than they should be.

Source: My child had a milk allergy when he was a baby and grew out of it with the milk ladder. I know it's hard to get it properly diagnosed, we were there, but you have to be so careful with nutrition for babies and toddlers!

dementedpixie · 15/01/2024 20:57

What're his symptoms on dairy?

Laurzz · 15/01/2024 21:19

@dementedpixie rash on his back and chest, breathless, screams in discomfort and vomiting (these symptoms start half an hour after dairy). His stools are never loose, this is why I've delayed getting him checked. I thought an allergy or interference would cause loose stools. I just always made excuses likes teeth etc.

I'm hoping the GP will carry out all the relevant tests etc but she is kean to see if his symptoms reduce after 2 weeks dairy free.

I got a one page leaflet and very little information advice.

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Crooklodge · 15/01/2024 21:37

We put dd onto soya milk (formula) at 3/4 months old after nutramigen etc didn't help. Was absolutely like night and day, honestly within 24 hours she was a different baby. There was studies done after that linked it to precocious puberty, I suppose that's not such a bother for a boy and dd is 15 now so sure there's been many more studies since debunking it. .

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