If you had to cut out dairy...

[bluedaisy]

how long did it take to see changes in your LO?

My 13 mo dd is allergic to dairy but it hasn't seemed to bother her when I have it. However, she does have a lot of sleep issues so I decided to try to cut out dairy to see if it makes a difference.

I know it takes 2 weeks for it to get completely get out of your system...did it take that long to see changes?

I'm on day 5 and there is no obvious improvement at this point. I'm planning to go 2 weeks and then add it back slowly and see what happens.

Thanks!

[ratrodgrl]

we had different issues: GI tract irritation to milk protein (egg, too) discovered at 2 months. Things improved after a week. He grew out of it at 1 year old though. I've read 2 weeks for it to clear your system then 2 weeks to clear your LO's, so 4 weeks total. But I gotta think if you see NO improvement in 2 weeks, you're probably fine...

[Cativari]

With my little people it took a few days to see a difference in behavior and about 2 weeks for them to be 100% better. I had to cut out dairy really early with both kiddos though and had to be extremely through with ds, if I had something that had even a little dairy in it he screamed for 2-3 days.

[ThankfulMama]

It took about 3 weeks for the blood in her stool to clear up. I can't recall about all of the other symptoms because I was so new at everything and she was only 3 weeks old! The most recent food I removed was corn. I didn't see enough of a difference until I started learning all of the code words, sources of corn. She then began getting better pretty quickly. However, our DR said that different symptoms subside at different rates and I find this to be true (e.g. a rash may clear before poop returns to normal and so on).

Best wishes!

[ShwarmaQueen]

We saw improvement beginning at day 11-12 (I was just about to give up on the milk protein allergy theory).

[SallyN]

With DD2 I can tell in a couple of days. With DD1 I could only see slight signs after 6 weeks.

Yeah... 6 weeks. It took me a few tries to stick it out that long... and when I finally did I regretted giving up at the 2 and 4 week marks, 'cause then I had to start all over.

Hang in there.

[moonlight mom]

It took about 5 weeks to clear the blood from her stool and she would get blood back with even the smallest accidental ingestion by me.

[texmati]

My baby would simply get fussier when I drank a lot of milk straight. It would take 2 days for him to get back to normal.