What is a good source of calcium for children that have a milk allergy ?!
Question: My son has a milk allergy . He can have a limited amount of cooked milk now that he is 2 years old. but I know he needs calcium for his bones and teeth any idea's ?
Answers: My son has a milk allergy . He can have a limited amount of cooked milk now that he is 2 years old. but I know he needs calcium for his bones and teeth any idea's ?
Ha girl! How ya doin? So here is what I found out...
Recommended Calcium Intake1
Age (Male and Female)
0-6 months 210 mg/day
7-12 months 270 mg/day
1-3 years 500 mg/day
4-8 years 800 mg/day
9-18 years 1300 mg/day
19-50 years 1000 mg/day
Over 50 years 1200 mg/day
Recommended Vitamin D Intake1
Age (Male and Female)
0-1 year 400 IU/day
1-50 years 200 IU/day
51-70 years 400 IU/day
Over 70 years 600 IU/day
What foods contain calcium?
Breastfeeding is the best way to meet your baby's calcium needs. Infant formula provides calcium for babies who cannot be breastfed. Dairy foods are very high in calcium, especially milk, yogurt and cheese. Other good sources include calcium-enriched orange juice, rice beverages, and soy beverages. For more information, see Food Sources of Calcium below.
There are only a few food sources of vitamin D. Good sources of vitamin D are fortified foods and beverages like milk, soy drinks, and margarine. Check the labels on these foods. Fish, liver, and egg yolk are the only foods that naturally contain vitamin D. If you do not eat vitamin D rich foods often, you may want to consider taking a vitamin D supplement. Most multiple vitamin supplements contain vitamin D. Breastfed babies under 1 year of age need 400 IU of vitamin D from a supplement each day. People over 50 need extra vitamin D and should take 400 IU from a supplement each day.
Now if you want more information on things like What is calcium and vitamin D? How much calcium and vitamin D do I need? What foods contain calcium? What foods contain vitamin D? What if I do not eat dairy foods? Food Sources of Calcium? You can click on this link http://www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles... here they have all this information I just provided you with and more. I also e mailed to you the tables they have, so you can print it out and hang it on your fridge and everyday you will know how much and what you can give to your little guy, they even tell you the age and the ammount of calcium a day that you should take, so this is a helpful and cool site. Now I do think you should contact your physician or your little one's physician and ask if this information is accurate, to me it sounds accurate, but just to be sure, you know? I did a search on google and found tons of info, since I don't know which one is best for your little guy and which one is your favorite, I will give you the link for the google search and you can go there and look for which ever one you like best. But remember to add it to your favorite (the google search age that is) because in some websites you can't go back, so add the link to your favorites that way you will have all the information there saved at your fingertips and can print it out, read it and do whatever you want. As long as you have internet ;) Lol, kidding, no seriously, you gotta have internet! Anyways, here is the google link to all the info I found!
http://www.google.com/search?q=rice+as+a...
Go there and check it out and let me know if it helped, I hope it did, and let me know if there is anything else I can help with kay girl!? You could also try something in the vegan diet, I know vegans can't have anything that comes from animals so maybe they have some great source of calcium and all the other vitamins that he can get from some other source, here is ANOTHER link I found it is on veagan diet, they don't eat anything to do with animals, so no milk, no dairy, they must have some good source of calcium and all those vitamins!
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/calcium.htm
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Pearl
hmm i need a lot of calcium these days so i found out about these foods:
nuts, almonds, asparagus, broccoli, buttermilk, cabbage, oats, parsley, prunes, whey, and tofu
umm try the soy milk, can he have dairy products? maybe ice cream?
Soy formula are often used for milk allergic children. If this is not tolerated, then special casein hydrolysate formulas e.g., Nutramigen, Pregestmil and Alimentum can be used (very few milk-allergic children react to these). Do not use goat's milk or lactose free cow's milk which will cause allergies as well. Lactose intolerant people are not milk allergic and can often take small amounts of milk without problems since their problem is digestive, not allergic. Note that soya milk is not soy formula and does not contain enough calories or calcium for an infant although it may be used as a drink for older children. However, there are some calcium enriched Soya milk and orange juices which provide extra calcium. Calcium supplements should be given to a young child who is not taking dairy or any other formula. All formulas including Soya formula contain sufficient calcium. Juices can be used if the child is on table foods, but too much fruit juice, especially apple juice, can cause bloating, cramps and diarrhea.
CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS Age 1-3 years needs: 500 mg elemental Calcium / day
e.g., 4 tsp Calcium Sandoz or 2-1/2 Turns antacids or
1 Calcium Sandoz Forte effervescent tablet ( 500 mg ) per day
Age 4-6 years needs: 600 mg elemental Calcium / day
e.g., 5 tsp Calcium Sandoz or 3 Turns antacid or
just over 1 Calcium Sandoz Forte effervescent tablets
( 500mg ).
or 1/2 tab Sandoz Gramcal (1000 mg tab)
Notes:
Some calcium supplements are derived from cow's milk e.g., calcium lactobionate, and may contain trace impurities with milk proteins. This should be safe for cow's milk allergy except in the case of anaphylaxis when it should be avoided as a precaution.
Dolomite, bone meal or some other natural source calcium e.g., fossilized oyster shells may contain significant amounts of lead which exceed tolerable daily intakes for children, and should be avoided.
Calcium Sandoz, and some other liquid calcium supplements containing sorbitol as a sweetener, can cause osmotic diarrhea and abdominal cramps
ask your pediatrician about a calcium supplement found in a vitamin form, and for the little one make sure it is in a liquid form.
Orange Juice , white and red beans, almonds, broccoli, salmon, oatmeal. calcium-enriched rice or soy milk. Vegan cheese and other soy products.
I hope this healps.