Tips and Advice for Dairy Intolerence in Breastfed Baby

I had the same problem with all five of my kids. Some were more sensitive than others and they all were extremely sensitive when they were teeny. I couldn't eat any breads because they had dairy in them. I pretty much cooked these things myself: meats, beans, rice, veggies, fruit etc. I could eat lots of mexican foods without cheese and sour cream. I just made them myself and didn't eat out much. I could eat chips, corn or potato, corn tortillas, canned chicken for chicken salads etc. I love dairy too but it really seemed to go fast and I got used to it. I wish you the best!!

Nearly all asian foods are dairy-free, so that's a start. And look for vegan recipes that sound appealing, too. You can always add in meat and eggs if you'd like.

I know that when I eliminated dairy from my diet, I lost about 10 lbs without doing anything else. Hope that's encouraging!

A good link to info is: http://kellymom.com/babyconcerns/food-sensitivity.html#pr...

My 2nd child has gluten and dairy allergies, and #3 seems to be allergic/intolerant to gluten, dairy, egg, and peanuts. It was awful having to give up all that, (because cheeseless pizza is just so depressing!) but the babies did so much better afterward that it was well worth it!

I go through my cookbooks and label which recipes are gluten-free or dairy-free, that way when I'm planning my menu I can tell at a glance whether or not it's something I can have. I also make a lot of foods like nachos or tacos (still good with just refried beans, ground beef, lettuce, tomato) so that I can omit the cheese and sour cream on mine but still put it on DH's. I make lots of Spanish rice and chicken-flavored rice (from scratch, of course), and I put vanilla-flavored almond milk on my cereal (I didn't care much for rice milk). Like someone else said, you can use broth instead of butter in things like mashed potatoes and veggies, and fry things in oil instead of butter. And make sure you read ALL labels, because they sneak dairy into the strangest things! Some foods (breaded chicken tenders, for example), the store brand will contain dairy but not the name brand, or vice versa. (Also, some foods will say things like "dairy-free" such as creamers, but they usually contain casein, which is a milk protein and may cause the same kind of discomfort in your baby. FYI.)

Here's some ideas from my menu: Stir-fry, hot dogs, french fries, chicken cacciatore, chili, meatloaf and mashed potatoes (made with chicken broth), gumbo, chicken burritos, spaghetti, roast beef sandwiches, meatball subs, braised pork chops, vegetable soups. HTH!

Try rice milk and rice cream...rice cheese. Also goat cheeses and milks.

We know a boy who is allergic to dairy, eggs, peanuts...he eats rice products and goat products.

Good luck.

My friend usually finds them at whole foods, fresh market.

My daughter has a dairy intolerance too and I had to cut out ALL dairy. It took about 3 days to see some improvement and about a month to see remarkable improvement. Before this I was a vegetarian who ate alot of dairy (5-7 servings a day). Vegetarian food just doen't taste that good without cheese, at least to me!

Now we eat much more traditional meals ( a meat, a starch and a veg for dinner). For breakfast, I have cereal with rice or coconut milk. Lunch is a tuna sandwich, pasta with veggies and olive oil or leftovers. For Mexican food, use guacamole in place of cheese (mash up an avocado with some lime juice). You can make mashed potatoes with broth instead of butter and milk. And you can use rice milk is most baked dishes.

Like Meredith, I lost the last 10lbs of baby weight without even trying once I gave up dairy!

We cannot eat gluten, dairy, soy, and two of us in my family also cannot eat eggs. No Problem! We did not just eliminate what we can't eat. Like you, that would have left us with not much. We completely changed the way we eat - like going to another country and eating differently but wonderfully. In fact, we now eat better, and with a more diverse diet than we ever did before.

Here is one of our favorite food sites, but there are dozens of others: http://www.foodsensitivityjournal.com/

There is one wonderful "cheese" I love that tastes like cheese and you can melt - Daiya cheese. If I crave pizza (which I don't much anymore) I melt that with spaghetti sauce on a rice cake.

After I CHANGED my diet - not just eliminated things, it became second nature, and I wouldn't go back to my old way of eating now, even if I could. Sometimes, when I go to potlucks, I am actually GLAD I can no longer eat just anything.

For breakfast, I used to eat a big bowl of cereal. Now a sample of my breakfast is a small piece of lean chicken with organic spring mix salad plus some blueberries, strawberries, half a banana or some apple - I try to make a colorful plate. If I could eat eggs, I could do like my husband and make a wonderful, colorful omelet with green beans, sliced yellow and orange peppers, etc.

Quesadillas are still do-able with Daiya cheese... If you must have comfort food full of starch, there are even Macaroni and cheese mixes that are non-dairy! Some taste better than others. That good tasting cheese mix is called "Chreese" and the packet says "Cheddar Style Chreese Mix". It has gluten, but that is not an issue for you.

I will say that first we did without the processed foods, then started adding in these ready made stuff, and it tasted wonderful to us. We still don't often do it.

Oh and restaurants! Again, we are eating things I did not before - African and Thai. American, too, of course. We just talk to the manager or server and carefully choose - but we have more allergies.

We only bring into the house food that all of us can eat, with the exception of the eggs from happy hens which my husband eats, and which I can give one of my pets, and guests.

I knew one lady's husband who insisted on bringing in Pizza! That is simply cruel!!! She said she tried to change her thinking to it being a box of poison. But - she also would go and get fast-food french fries as a comfort food to compensate for the no pizza. At least the bad person had agreed to not having anything in their apartment (like pizza) that could not be eaten by her for the first 6 months. (I am not sure he kept to that... They are no longer together, btw - no kids involved - so I am very happy for her!).