Growing out of Dairy Allergy???

[Lou C]

My little boy is now 11 months and I have read elsewhere that 80% of children grow out of Dairy Allergy by the time they are 2. He had a strong reaction to milk when I started weaning him so has been on Nutramigen/Breast/Normal Soya Milk since. We are seeing the consultant and Dietician again in May when they are going to try him on Milk again. He also has eczema and asthma. In the back of my mind I feel this is here to stay, but hope it's not! I wondered what other peoples experiences are. Lou xx

[Copper]

My eldest daughter and I both have lactose intolerance rather than an allergy. I am pretty sure that like me my daughter was born with this problem. We both grew out of it by about three months. My daughter is now in her 20's and has lactose intolerance again. My intolerance came back to haunt me at various times in my childhood. For the last four years I have been very lactose intolerant and feel that it is here to stay now.

[cnc]

Lou C, has there been any improvement with his asthma/ eczema after being milk free, as I know many peoples (my asthma particuarly improved loads when I became dairy free, but I have a weird asthma type).

Hope you get a definate answer soon.

[Bet]

I used to have a milk allergy as a child (my daughter now has a milk intolerance). I still had the allergy when I went to school at 5 - they made me milk monitor which meant I had to dish out all the milk bottles to the kids and the milk spilt on my skin causing red blotches. I'm not sure at what age I grew out of it but 2 seems very young to me, especially as exzema / asthma are a problem as well

[Lou C]

Hi Claire, the asthma hasn't shown any improvement at all, it's been worse over the winter but that's also the case with my eldest boy.
Hi Bet, It's intersting to hear you say that you got blotches when milk spilt on your skin, when my older children have had milk and they blow rasberries on Zacs tummy he comes out in blotches.

Lou x

[Copper]

Hi Bet, It's intersting to hear you say that you got blotches when milk spilt on your skin, when my older children have had milk and they blow rasberries on Zacs tummy he comes out in blotches.

Lou x

I think that you had better mention this at the appointment in May. It sounds like he has a milk allergy still so it would not be a good idea to give him milk at the moment.

[ellsie]

I have a milk allergy but did not have it as a child. Many children grow out of allergies and others have them for life. Mine started when my body changed at adolesence.
Because of my allergy myeldest twochildren had no milk until they were tested at 18 months. The first thing they did was to put some milk on the skin and wait 15 mins for a reaction. Then it was a quarter t-spoon of milk and wait then half a teaspoon. It took all morning to get to a yogurt! If they test your child and he has a skin reaction then they will stop there I would think. They will probably wait a few years to retest.
Hope this helps.;)

[Nic]

I was told by a consultant dermatologist that 90% of children grow out of allergic eczema by 18. Unfortunately, I'm one of the 10%, and I think that that may have been partly because I didn't start avoiding dairy until my mid teens, and even then I cheated a lot. A friend of mine who projectile vomited when she had dairy as a baby, and then was kept on a very strict non-dairy diet until she left home at 18, is now much more tolerant than I am. But that's just personal experience, and best to check with a doctor and get tested.

Nic

[tigerlily]

I've been told it's 3 years but that's supposed to be in children who suffer from no other allergies/problems.
Eden is 26 months now and still has it. Her dad, Rob, outgrew his dairy allergy by age 3.

Vanessa.

[Pam]

I've heard that the magic age is 7 and I have noticed that my daughter (nearly 7) is more tolerant than she used to be.

To be honest though, I don't know where they get their figures from because most children aren't tested and my daughter has not been seen by any professionals for 3 years so how do they know if she has grown out of it or not?