dairy intolerance help
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Topic: dairy intolerance help
Posted By: sbeach
Subject: dairy intolerance help
Date Posted: 14 November 2011 at 4:17pm
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I am pretty sure DD has a mild dairy intolerance. Over the last three days I have introduced a bottle of cows milk to replace one BF with hope to fully wean her to cows milk but mid Jan when I return to work. She has some of the symptoms, rash, blocked nose, mild constipation. I say mild intolerance as she hasnt flared up like this from BFing and I love my dairy!
I am going to the doc on Wed, I just have a few questions for those experienced in this... Could I just use soy or rice milk instead? Is there a formula I can get from the supermarket that would be okay or is it just that prescription only one that is suitable? TIA ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 14 November 2011 at 5:14pm
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Lily is Cows Milk Protein Intolerant. Was a very, very lengthy process for us to get that diagnosis! Over a year! Anyway we just use rice milk for everything now and you can even get some with calcium added which is a bonus for us as our Paed has advised us to go dairy free for 6 months. For us Lily has a gut reaction - runs almost immediately, bloating, gassy... Also gets dry skin and eczema...
With cutting dairy it's meant no chocolate, milk, yoghurt, ice cream, butter, cheese, margerine, hmm and a few other things that I have completely forgotten! We noticed a 'reaction' almost immediately with cows milk and goats milk, cheese... The other things I never paid much attention to. I never bothered with formula. We are still BFing though it's more like once every 2-3 weeks as she is weaning naturally. I am working about 24 hours a week and it hasn't really interrupted the BFing but it's nice that she can drink something else other than water so we use rice milk. I avoided soy as I've heard a few 'bad' things about using it too much. I'm not sure what a doc is likely to say to you as I noticed reactions with Lily while I was BFing. But I am glad I pushed to see a paed (saw 3 GPs). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: snugglebug
Date Posted: 30 November 2011 at 10:02pm
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Sorry Ive only just seen this, and you might have had advice from your GP, but my understanding is you can't give them soy or rice milk as their main milk for a while, but you could buy soy or lactose free formula rather than getting neocate on prescription. I know for rice milk its not suitable as the main milk until 5 years but Im not sure about soy milk ------------- Me 28, DH 29 DS born 20 Nov 2010 (4 years old) #2 due October 7 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 30 November 2011 at 11:05pm
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Not sure on the rice milk, we would have got put onto that if Cooper wasn't intolerant to chickpeas, rather than the neocate as they need the protein from the chickpeas. So normal rice milk is a no but I'm sure that fortified rice milk is ok. Mind you he was at least 6 months older at the time.
Maybe think about still b/fing morning & night & doing fortified rice milk during the day. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 02 December 2011 at 1:54pm
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Oh should add we only use rice milk as a substitute in cooking (along with olivani spread) and on her cereal. We are still BFing also. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: sbeach
Date Posted: 05 December 2011 at 2:22pm
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thanks for the suggestions/info guys
Turns out DD is intolerant to soy/soy formula also as we tried that after the lovely people at Nutricia sent me a tin. So are now trying Pepti-Junior from the GP on script but after 2 days (4 bottles) DD is having a reaction to that also. Less severe than before but still not as good as she is on Neocate (my GP gave me a sample tin to try while he got organised and got script for other) I would love to do morning and night BFs but will be doing full time shift work from about Feb next year so wont be possible then and want to get all this sorted well before then so there arent a lot of changes for DD to deal with at once. So back to GP tomorrow to get Neocate script. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: snugglebug
Date Posted: 06 December 2011 at 2:27pm
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Neocate is awesome Sbeach you should get a script for a year too so that means free for a year really helps as formula is so expensive.
I thought only paeds could make the request for neocate though? So you might have to get it from a paed? ------------- Me 28, DH 29 DS born 20 Nov 2010 (4 years old) #2 due October 7 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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