Dairy and Soy free.

Hi there,

After struggling with a reflux baby for 9 months and being tol dit will improve I have now seen another Dr who questions the reflux diagnosis and believes my son is milk intolerant. This is something I have questioned every single time i have been to the Dr's. I strongly believe he is and am now going dairy and soy free with him.

I have scanned thru previous posts and find some food items that are sweet. Can anyone add anymore? I may introduce soy back in after a mont and see.

Nice biscuits, Salada, Sakata, kettle chips, corn cruskits, pams choc chips, Snax, Casava crisps, gingersnuts.

What do you give for breakfast and snacks as I can't find a goats milk yoghurt.

Thanks soooo much!

Peanut are you still breastfeeding?

Sorry i know its a personal question, but i only ask because there is no mention of using a special formula like neocate.

but for breakfast you could give him toast with oliviani spread on it (its dairy free), and vegemite or jam

Easi yo yoghurt do a lactose free yoghurt

sorry i cant be of more help

Thanks people for the replies.

MamaT, I am only going by what people have said in other threads.

Kazzle, no I FF from birth and have been pushing milk intolerance for a while. I am going to try a month first and will head to the Paed if I am proven right. He is not severe but is getting worse the more dairy he has.

Tishy, will check out the organics shops round town. Although have made him custard tonight using formula and he seemed happy with that.

New world do an organic bread that is soy free.

Breakfast we always did porridge made with water, or you can do other cereal but make with rice milk. Stay away from anything that is goat or sheep, the proteins are very similar to cow's milk and are likely to still cause a reaction. Of course you can make the cereal with neocate as well (I'm guessing by trying a month you mean you are just gonna pay full price for the neocate to see first?).

Rice crackers are good too and other than that we did fruit, carrot, cucumber etc for snacks and I did baking and just used rice milk instead of cow's milk and rice bran oil instead of butter, you can't really tell the difference. Oh and check out the orgran range of stuff cos lots of theirs is dairy and soy free, including some outback crackers that are very nice.

two_boys - I am using goats milk formula at the moment. The Dr I spoke with beliefs he may be fine on it as Frano is not that severe in his reactions. He thinks he will be better on Goats than Soy based on his symptoms etc. Who do you see as your Paed? I am not keen on seeing Rodney Ford.

I am excluding all soy for the first month and will then start being slightly more lenient with it.

Didn't even think about the bread thing!

I am just concerned as I know that Rodney has had a couple of cases against him and been close to being struck off a couple of times. That in itself doesn't sit well with me.

Hmmm, I really don't know. He seems to be drinking the goats milk quite happily which is a bonus as with the old formula he was only taking 2 bottles a day of 70mls and 1 in the night of 150mls.