Goats milk

[SARA777]

Anyone here with mspi baby okay w/goats milk?

Anyone here have mspi/mfpi babies who outgrew their allergies by 18 months?

Anyone know what the real "out-grow" time is for these allergies/intolerances?

[broodymama]

I'm 4 for 4 with MSPI. It's still too early to tell with DS2, but my other 3 were fine with goat milk in my diet. DS1 outgrew his sensitivity at ~16 months***, DD1 at 12 months and DD2 at 9 months. So far DS2 hasn't shown any problems with goat milk in my diet yet, but it's too early to say for sure.

*** While DS1 stopped showing physical reactions to dairy in my diet around 16 months, I eventually noticed behavior problems when he had a lot of dairy. (I started a thread called "dairy & behavior issues" about 4 years ago and got a lot of responses with others having similar reactions.)

[kjbrown92]

My dairy soy intolerant (I don't use protein in there because I believe it's a misnomer) DS is now now 10yo. Can't do cow, goat, sheep, or water buffalo milk. I kept thinking he "outgrew" it but he just kept changing symptoms to confuse me. I believe healing is a better term than outgrowing because I think healing is necessary for "outgrowing".

[SARA777]

Behavioral probs

Thank you for the light at the end of the tunnel - when did yours outgrow their behavioral probs to milk (goat's milk/cow's milk?)?

How did you trial? Mine is almost 18 months, and i'm afraid to trial milk.....

[SARA777]

healing

Originally Posted by kjbrown92

My dairy soy intolerant (I don't use protein in there because I believe it's a misnomer) DS is now now 10yo. Can't do cow, goat, sheep, or water buffalo milk. I kept thinking he "outgrew" it but he just kept changing symptoms to confuse me. I believe healing is a better term than outgrowing because I think healing is necessary for "outgrowing".

Any ideas as to WHY they take so long to heal?

[broodymama]

Originally Posted by SARA777

Thank you for the light at the end of the tunnel - when did yours outgrow their behavioral probs to milk (goat's milk/cow's milk?)?

Yeah, I'll have to get back to you on that. He'll be 6 in September and I still notice issues.

[LaurieG]

My DS2 outgrew his issue with milk (we actually never fully determined what all he was reacting to but milk was among the issues) by about 12 months, although later after I started coming to this forum I wondered whether his symptoms had just changed to something less obvious. But at this point (almost 6) he seems to be a healthy, happy, well adjusted kid with no obvious GI, behavior, sleep, or other issues.

DD is almost 3 and still reacts to milk and soy. Milk is better than it used to be - a little bit of gassy, loose stool but no real major changes in behavior. Soy is an extreme behavior reaction and a much less significant GI response than she used to have.

DS1 is almost 8 and is getting tested next month so I'll get back to you on whether he has outgrown his. Our attempts to eliminate milk haven't shown improvement in his issues (GI, skin, and general immune system issues) but I haven't been successful at getting him, DH, grandparents, etc to buy in to the need to try long enough to really know. We haven't done any significant healing interventions with him though. He's my project this year - LOL.

Oh yeah, I forgot about your question of goats milk. DD definitely still reacts to goats milk too. Never tried goats milk with the boys b/c I never did a serious ED with them.

[xeniphia]

I'm new here but I wanted to point something out. I was following a dairy allergy thread on a different forum I'm on and a lady said something which will forever haunt me. She said that her parents thought she "outgrew" her dairy allergy by 3 or 4 years old so they put dairy back in her diet. She spent the next 14 years of her life in a haze as she put it. She could never think clearly, was constantly sick, and just never felt great. As soon as she found out about the "outgrown" allergy when she was around 18 she voluntarily cut dairy out of her diet. She said it was like someone flipped a switch and suddenly she had a normal life. She says to this day she's still mad about it.

That post will forever haunt me, and I'm not 100% sure I could ever, ever, put a child back on a food they've shown an intolerance to until they can tell me, with real understanding, if it affects them. The thought of doing that to my child just scares the crap out of me.

[rhesp1212]

Unfortunately, there's no real way to know how long before and if a child will outgrow a sensativity. They're all different. Some say they outgrow things like milk allergies around age 2, but that's not true for everyone. My allergy specialist said that most kids outgrow sensativities by the time they are 6-7 years old. But, again....not all of them do. She did tell me (and I'm sure there are differing opinions about this). If he reacts to a food, remove it and don't reintroduce it for a year.

Regarding the goat milk...again, everyone is different. My son is dairy and soy intolerant and could tolerate RAW goat's milk from grass fed goats only (not the stuff you buy in the store) for a short time but quickly became sensative to it, even on a rotational diet. All you can do is try it!