My 5 month old daughter is lactose intolerant, and she's on soy as instructe!


Question: My 5 month old daughter is lactose intolerant, and she's on soy as instructed by her Dr!.!?
This same Dr has said that she could possibly outgrow it!. My question is this: How can we tell if she has outgrown the allergy if she dosen't drink milk!? How/when does ANYONE know if they aren't allergic to something if they avoid it!? It's kind of like the cold medicine that gives you 24 hr relief!. How do you know when your cold is gone!? (not sure if they still sell that or not!) Anyway, I hope someone understands me!Www@Answer-Health@Com


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When my son was a baby he also was lactose intolerant - and he drank soy formula until he was two years old!. We tried several different times to introduce him to milk from skim to whole milk and had no luck!. My doctors had felt he would out grow it but he is now 29 years old and still can not drink milk or eat milk products!. There are people who truly do have an allergy to milk and milk products not just an intolerance and if this is the case then you would need to seek the advice of a nutritionist!. There are blood tests that can be done to determine if you have a true allergy to milk and if it comes back that you don't have an allergy to milk then you are only dealing with an intolerance which in most cases the child does grow out of it!. I know this seems like I answered your question with another question but I am only trying to let you know that there are other options to rule out a true allergy - as for an intolerance the only thing that I can suggest is to keep her on the soy formula and gradually introduce her to milk or milk products but I would not do this until she was at least a year old or whenever your doctor tells you to try her on milk - believe me you will know if she can not tolerate the milk - she will either have diarrhea or other signs and symptoms of her inabiity to drink milk!. I hope that I have answered your question - believe me I know your frustration!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

In some cases, infants who don't tolerate the milk based formulas do outgrow it!. The doctors tend to call it all lactose intolerance, but it's more often thought to be an intolerance to the proteins in cow's milk!. What happens is their intestinal system acquires the bacterial flora necessary to digest the lactose in milk!. Children that are truly allergic to the cow milk protein are also more likely to be allergic to the protein in soy as well!. You would not know, nor even want to find out until she is much older!. Usually when they are old enough for solid foods, and at least a year old- when they start eating things that contain milk or dairy products, you can try small amounts to see how it goes!. A significant number of children will tolerate it at that point, and an even larger number by the time they are 2!. You would need to ask your pediatrician for guidance as to how best to test her tolerance, but it should wait until she's at least a year old or older!. If you don't have a family history of true lactose intolerance, chances are actually good your daughter will not be either when she gets older!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Lactose intolerance is not an allergy!.

Lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, a sugar found in milk and other dairy products, because the required enzyme lactase is absent or its availability is lowered!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Lactose_int!.!.!.

Probiotics (there are brands esp for children/infants) can help the body be able to digest milk produts, there are also other over the counter products that help the body breakdown lactose!. Once she is older and consumes a dairy product!.!.!.she will know if she is intolerant, she will probably have cramping, diarrhea, gas, bloating and such!. You will be able to tell by the way she reacts to dairy productsWww@Answer-Health@Com

I agree with what "The Mom" said!.

Although my kids were never diagnosed with lactose intolerance, I put them on soy formula myself!. I mentioned to my (then) pediatrician that Asians are famously lactose-intolerant (my kids are half-Chinese)!. You'd be amazed how many pediatricians don't know that (I've mentioned it to others too and they were clueless)!. My son had really bad colic and my daughter never wanted to eat when they were infants!.

When my twins were one year old, I started giving them whole milk!. There was a period of about two weeks while their digestive system acclimated to it (meaning, nasty poops for about two weeks) but after that they were fine!.
I went to 2% at two years!. Now they eat yogurt, milk and cheese!. I don't know if they were "really" lactose intolerant and outgrew it, or if they were just fussy and colicky for other reasons!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I understand you completely!. MY daughter was also lactose intolerant as a baby, she is 3 now and is no longer!.

I started giving her milk at 1 to see if she could handle it and she did ok!.!.!.!. but I gave her 1 or 2% and slowly introduced it to her!. I also gave her yogurt, it was slow but she's 3 and drinks whole milk with out any problems!. I would leave her on soy until she reaches 1!.!.!. then try to give her milk!.!. if whole milk irritates her, try going to a lower percentage of fat!. Some kids can handle yogurt and other dairy foods but not milk!.

You can always buy lactose free milk and If you are on WIC!. Wic pays for lactose free milk!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I would think you would have to visit a doctor and ask to run tests at a later time!. Cows milk is bad for people in general!. Soy milk gives people a lot of estrogen!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

the only real way to see if you have grown out of being lactose intolerant is to try drinking milk and seeing what happens!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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