Problems with some dairy only. Confused?

Catherine123456 · #1 (**permalink**) 27-08-09, 17:31

Hello everyone

I am hoping that someone may shed some light on my current problem. My DD has been formula fed since birth and I have been weaning her for several months now (she's 9 months). Every time I give her yogurt (which she loves) or cheese she gets really sicky after about 8 hours - it seems to keep "repeating on her" and eventually she vomits, which always smells sour! After that she has a terrible night's sleep, tossing and turning. She never has a problem with normal formula, although I have always had to use cartons as the powder makes her REALLY windy.

My HV has no idea what the problem could be and has said that she needs yogurt and cheese for calcium and that I shouldn't just cut them out but i'm not giving her something that seems to upset her.

Has anyone else experienced this or is able to shed some light on it. Do you think it would help to see my gp or is my hv overreacting??

Thanks for your help.

Catherine
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rachaelmae · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-09, 09:07

How does she react with cows milk?

katefosteruk · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-09, 15:45

hi both my older 2 had that a bit funny only on some products !! we found cutting out the bad ones didnt affect them at all just add butter/milk in where you can and make milky puddings with her milk hope that helps im just going through this again with the 3rd !!
kate
hv ott a bit with first i went all the way to the hospital due to gp and they couldnt under stand why we were there baby was growing nicely!! getting vits etc from milk!! they grew out of it by 18m -2yr
trying semi milk is gd but then you do need to add more fats to the diet as thats the only difference in full and semi milk so hospital told me .

Catherine123456 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-09, 17:06

Thanks so much for your responses.

Rachaelmae- I haven't tried cows milk yet. I add formula to everything to get the extra vitamins and iron. I may try some and see if it causes a problem.

Kate - isn't it strange how they have funny reactions to some foods only, and i'm so glad to hear that mine isn't the only one! I figure that following my hv's advice will result in a three month wait to see a paediatrician to be, more or less, told what you have just told me. The AK Purees book has a lovely recipe for rice pudding so i'll make a batch of that. She'll love it. Good to hear she'll grow out of it......probably around the same time that she will refuse to eat anything except chips and beans!

Cath

bevvsedge · #5 (**permalink**) 18-10-09, 22:18

I spoke to an allergist about dairy and whether my son could have certain things, she said no as he is allergic to the milk protein and not lactose intolerant. EXCEPT butter, aparantly because butte ris mainly fat most people with milk allergy can tolerate it, so odd!

I was also worried about him getting a balanced diet, she said that he gets all he needs from the hydrolysed (spelt that wrongly maybe!) formula so not to worry and they will discuss when we get the results from his next allergy tests at a year old.

gingerboots · #6 (**permalink**) 18-11-09, 12:11

Baby formula is made using either fully or partially hydrolised milk proteins, which means that the protein chains have been broken down into smaller parts. It's likely that your baby can tolerate the formula because the protein chains aren't complete, so don't create the reaction full milk would.

Your health visitor should know better! If cheese and yoghurt make her sick, don't give them to her! My boy is very intolerant (not allergic, which can be fatal) and he had his special formula to drink till his 3rd birthday. He also happily drinks chilled rice milk (the one with added calcium).

You can find calcium in many things, so avoiding dairy is a pain, but not too hard. Eggs are good, brocolli and wholemeal bread too. Ask for a list from the nutritionist.

I avoided soya as the proteins chains are v similar to milk, and he reacted to them. All good wholemeal breads are soya free.

You can make rice pudding with rice milk, you just need more of it! I also stir in a dollop of coconut cream at the end...yum!

I use Pure Sunflower marg for all cooking to replace butter or spreads (all of which contain milk). It works just fine - I even made lemon curd with it!

My boy is now 3 and still intolerant, but he's cruising along the 50th centile and is as sturdy and healthy as any mum could wish.

Hope this helps!