Food Allergies Treatment

An allergy to cows milk protein can show in lots of different ways but with our 8 mth old daughter (she is milk and soy protein allergic) she comes out in itchy fluid filled blisters (wherever has come into direct contact with the dairy or soy) within 30 secs of touching any dairy or soy product. She also has an itchy whole body rash which comes up after about 10-30 mins after touching dairy or soy.

I was certain that my son was allergic to the milk based formula – and my doctor was certain he was NOT! As a child I was allergic, therefore I really assumed that was the problem. He also had a rash that would develop on his face periodically. BUT… for our son it was actually reflux! He was just at you explained – and was arching his back when we’d burp him. They put him on pepcid for one month and had us add 1 tsp of rice cereal to his 4 ounce bottles of formual. In time, it fixed himself and we took him off the pepcid. We also made a switch to the Similac Alimentum – it’s hypoallergenic. Check it out on the Similac Website (which you can register on and they’ll send you coupons for the formula!) This change in formula also did wonders! Good luck. I know how hard it is to try to deal with this. (Also, after my reading up on how to sleep train our baby, they say mostly ALL babies begin to get fussy around week 6, so this is partly normal)

I had one daughter who was born with a lactose intollerance. She had diarrhea and a lot of spit up on the regular Enfamil. She used to get frequent belly aches pulling her legs up crying. We put her on soy formula (Prosobee) at a week old and she was the happiest of my babies for the rest of her infancy. She stayed on this until the age of one when I tried her on regular cows milk. It gave her belly aches again, so we put her on Lactaid milk. She did fine with this for the next couple years. When she was about five she was alright with regular milk.
My second daughter was born with a milk allergy. Her first bottle of milk based formula she threw up projectily all the way across the room right onto the nurses uniform. She got diarrhea, a rash on her face immediatly, diaper rash, blood in her stool, and asthma symptoms. She was diagnosed with asthma later on as well. She went on soy formula like her sister. Her doctor told us to keep her on soy formula until she was two. When she was eighteen months she weaned herself off of it and onto soy milk. She just stopped drinking the formula. We tried some milk when she was two and that was her first trip to the ER. She got hives that looked like huge masquito bites all over her biggest on her back. Some were the size of half dollar coins or bigger. She also got more asthma problems, watery eyes, rash on her face, diarrhea, stomach ache, and her throat was closing (anaphalactic shock syndrome). We made several more trips to the ER for her allergic reaction during the next years because she would sneak foods sometimes or eat things that she did not believe had milk. We had to keep Benadryl and an Epipen with us at all times. This January at the age of nine she underwent some extensive testing, blood and skin prick tests, that declared she was no longer allergic at this point. It took her nine years to outgrow her allergy which may come back at some point.