Son Has a Milk Allergy...

My second son is extremely milk protein intolerant and while I''m breast feeding I can't ingest anything with any form of dairy (we also suspect eggs which is another story). It has been difficult to find things to eat. I suggest Smart balance light for a butter spread substitute as margarine has dairy. For baking try Crisco baking sticks. Both are trans fat and hydrogenated oil free. The hardest thing has been cheese and chocolate. Ghirardelli (sp?) semi-sweet chocolate chips use soy so unless he is deathly allergic you could use these (poss. cross contamination). Hershey's chocolate syrup and oreos are both dairy free. I make pretty much all the same dishes I did before minus the cheese or whatever and allow everybody to and cheese on at the end, it's not the same but it helps. I drink fortified vanilla rice milk since I don't like the soy milk by itself, although I think it's okay in things. Make sure the juice he drinks is fortified and give him a vitamin with calcium like the Gummy vites which have no artificial colors or flavors and you can get a big jar at Costco. I have found recipes online, especially vegetarian sites. If you need more info, email me.

My daughter cannot drink regular milk but she can eat cheese, yogurt and ice cream, and have things that have milk in them........like recipes. We alternate soy milk and rice milk (drink) for her. Did the doctor say he can't have anything with milk because the way milk is processed is totally different than yogurt or cheese. You also might want to try raw milk which isn't pasteurized.......it is gross and expensive but worth it for the calcium.

my daughter just a a virus bug that milk and lactose made worse. We completely eliminated all lactose, but found that there is bread, string cheese, milk, yogurt, etc... that are all lactose free. My daughter didn't notice a difference at all and she is now feeling fine. While she was sick, though, I didn't have to hold back the things she loves so much. Hope that helps and good luck. My mom also looked up lactose intolerence in children on google and just got a couple websites that gave information and some suggestions as well, so you might want to try that.

Hi S.,
I too have a child with a milk allergy. She was deathly allergic as an infant to the point where we kept benadryl and an epi-pen on hand. Fortunately, I've never had to use the epi-pen. People get confused by a milk allergy thinking that it's being lactose intollerant. It's two completely different things. Being lactose intollerant is where your body can't digest the milk and you may get a tummy ache or diarrhea. A milk allergy is obvious signs of an allergic reaction like hives and swelling. My daughter is now 3 1/2, turning 4 in March. In the very beginning it was very difficult because we had to read everything to make sure that it didn't contain milk or the protein names like whey or casein. I had to make a lot of meals from scratch. My daughter could have just about anything homemade as long as I substituted the milk with soy milk. My daughter wouldn't drink the soy milk or rice milk. I think that the soy works best for cooking. It doesn't taste that bad either. Now that she's older I think she's just about out grown this allergy, although if she gets too much milk protein she sometimes breaks out in eczema. She hasn't had any trouble in quite some time so I think we are almost out of the woods. At some point I plan on trying her on milk again (which she used to vomit about 20 minutes after injesting) to see what happens. Good luck to you and your little one. I hope everything works out.

I would suggest going to Sprouts or a natural food store like that. When my son was reacting to dairy though my milk, I started drinking almond milk (sounds gross, but it is very yummy!!) and eating almond milk cheese, etc... They have tons of items made without diary. I would just go there and have someone show you what they offer. They really have a huge selection! Have you made him fruit smoothies? We buy frozen fruit in bulk from Costco and use that, ice, and juice to make them.

Also, I took my son to Dr. Kail, a naturopathic Dr., and he decensitized him to the things he is alergic to so that he can still enjoy them. It's called the NEAT series. It might help your son too!

Hello!
I recently got a copy of "Master Cooks 9.0" for my PC. With this one can search the receipe section wih the instruction to exclude certain items. It just returned 3798 receipes without dairy from all of its cook books. While I did not look into them in detail, this might be something that could help to add variety for the whole family?

Good luck!
D.