Food Allergies Treatment

Question by hearts_bleed_dark: Is it okay to mix milk with formula to get my seven month old used to it or should i not use milk til 1 year?
my husband wants me to start mixing milk with his formula and I have always heard that if you give a child milk before they are a year old it can cause them to have worse allergies.. he’s almost eight months, and a friend of ours did this with their child at five months but im just not sure about it.

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Answer by rose_everafter
WAIT!! I tried it with my youngest son and he would have seriously bad diarrea because their little tummies cannot digest it yet.

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Question by Waiting4Forever: Do you think certain foods should be banned because a child has an allergy to it?
LIke, if a child is deathly allergic to peanuts… Should peanuts be banned from the school? What about if your child is deathly allergic to wheat? Milk?

I think that if you ban [insert allergy] to protect children who are deathly allergic to it, then you should ban [insert different allergy] to protect the kids who are deathly allergic to it. I don’t think it is fair to protect kids who are deathly allergic to [insert allergy] but not protect the kids who are deathly allergic to [insert allergy].

Hypothetical situation: Your school bans peanuts because one child has a deathly allergic reaction to it. However, your child has a deathly allergic reaction to [insert different allergy] but the school refuses to ban it. Do you think it is fair to protect one child but not the other?

What about for elementary? Middle school? High School?

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Answer by Sara
It’s not right for a school to ban an allergy for one kid, and not do it for another kid with a different allergy. I’d be pretty pissed off.
My son doesn’t have any allergies thank god. But his daycare bans anything with nuts in it. Only because there is a kid with a but allergy, but it’s not deadly.

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Question by Heaths Mommy: baby has cows milk protein allergy should i keep pumping……?
hi Ladies my son has a cows milk protein allergy i have cut out all dairy, wheat, soy and beef which was advised by the pediatrician ( been doing this for about 3 weeks now) so no other allergy’s come out! he was on breast milk but was very gassy, fussy and would cry while feeding him we changed him back to formula which he has been on for four days he is doing much better! i spoke to my family doctor today he suggested i keep pumping and maybe use the milk when he is a few months older( hes a 32 week preemie) just wonder if i should keep pumping or just leave it there will still be a chance he cannot have the milk?? has anyone else done something like this how did it turn out… or should i just let myself dry up??

Thank you!
He’s on liquid Nutramigen

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Answer by Brittany
not too sure

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Question by The dancing cat: Toddler has milk allergy, what should he drink?
My 16 month old baby was just diagnosed with milk and egg whites allergy, they told me the blood test results over the phone. Also they told me to schedule appointment with an allergist. So I did, next appointment is available at the end of August. Till then I have no idea what to feed him with? Soy milk seem sdoesnt have required amounts of fat as whole milk, lactaid milk still contains milk protein he is allergic to. He was on Similac milk based formula since birth. It is weird he just got diagnosed at 16 months after I changed pediatricians several times trying to figure out why gets so bad eczema. I was kept being told it was normal. Now I see it was because I fed milk formula to him and since 1 year he drinks several cups of whole milk per day that he is in fact, allergic to. This morning I went and bought some soy Similac toddler formula, thos things are so expensive! Isnt there something cheaper out there? I cannot find a soy toddler formula in store brands, only Similac and Enfamil which is very expensive. Is there a type of soymilk that is good for toddlers? What should I do? 2 months till I can talk to specialist about this. Pediatrician says do whatever you always did till the specialist says otherwise. But seems idiotic to me to give him milk & cheese if he is allergic to it, right???

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Answer by ceinglehart
It does, but if it’s only eczema and not making him ill, it might be best. See how he reacts to the Soy Similac and if it’s alright, I guess you just have to suck up the price. And you are right about Lactaid milk, for an allergy it will still cause an issue.

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Question by Annie: Mommy to Sid and Liz: How often should Newborns go to the Pediatrician?
I thought i had taken my, now a month old, son to a pediatrician at his 2 wk apointment but it turns out the Clinic we went to does not have and actual Pediatricians. I went to the clinic althrough out my pregnancy and knew that they saw children because i saw them in the waiting room. And i didn’t think twice that they didn’t want to see my son untill April, Now i’m not too sure and his starting to show his Father’s Milk Allergies. Should i find a pediatrician or what?
I thought i had taken my, now a month old, son to a pediatrician at his 2 wk apointment but it turns out the Clinic we went to does not have and actual Pediatricians. I went to the clinic althrough out my pregnancy and knew that they saw children because i saw them in the waiting room. And i didn’t think twice that they didn’t want to see my son untill April, when we made our next appoinment. Now i’m not too sure and his starting to show his Father’s Milk Allergies. My son also wouldn’t breastfeed so that’s not an opition. Should i find a pediatrician or what?

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Answer by amosunknown
Any doctor is acceptable. Pediatricians simply see only children on a daily basis, but all doctors are trained in the care of infants and newborns.

You can continue to go to your clinic if you are comfortable with the care you receive there, your baby will be taken care of just the same there as at a pediatricians office. But, if you feel his care would be better at a pediatricians office then start asking local mom’s who they use.

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