Pepper
10-22-2012, 09:31 PM
Hi folks,
I'm gonna call our pediatrician about this, but i'm interested to know if anyone's had this experience. We think DS2 (age 3.5) may have a milk allergy, though his symptoms don't quite fit with what i've read on the internet.
(Sorry this is kind of long...)
A couple of months ago he had a bout of diarrhea that lasted several days, no fever. He also got a very red, very sore diaper rash with the very first loose stool. I called the pedi and the nurse told me that it sounded like a virus (he didn't have a fever) and to bring him in if it lasted for a week. DS2 was also having frequent bowel movements, which surprised me because usually (IME) when the kids have diarrhea they don't poop for a while after, as things get back to normal, KWIM?
Long story short, the GI problems came & went until I finally realized that the diarrhea was starting a day or two after DS2 ate pizza at school. We took him off all dairy for a couple of weeks, his bowels returned to normal. I started him on Lactaid and he was fine for 3-4 days, then we had the familiar progression of yellowish, sour-smelling poops, which gave him that terrible diaper rash, to diarrhea a day or two later.
So now we have him totally off dairy. I'd already bought the dairy-free cheese stuff (forget the brand names) but now i'm really checking everything to make sure he gets no whey or casein.
We adopted DS2 from Korea at age 13 months, and I remember that his foster mom told the doctor at his pre-flight checkup that he'd been having a lot of diarrhea. S they gave us a couple cans of "milk allergy" formula...which gave him diarrhea on the morning of our flight home. The FM also told the doctor that DS2 was OK if he drank cow's milk, so we switched him to that immediately and he was alright once we got him home. He's been drinking milk and eating cheese ever since, so I thought he was OK. But, though his bowel function never really settled into a pattern - he didn't poop at the same time everyday, and the poops themselves were really different from one time to the next.
From what I've read, milk allergy symptoms usually happen a few hours after ingesting milk, but DS's symptoms have been showing up a few days later. Plus, he doesn't get swollen lips, hives, or raspy breathing. But the GI problems definately seem to be tied to milk. Anyone else have a child whose milk allergy showed up after infancy? Is there such a thing as "mild" milk allergy?
I'm gonna call our pediatrician about this, but i'm interested to know if anyone's had this experience. We think DS2 (age 3.5) may have a milk allergy, though his symptoms don't quite fit with what i've read on the internet.
(Sorry this is kind of long...)
A couple of months ago he had a bout of diarrhea that lasted several days, no fever. He also got a very red, very sore diaper rash with the very first loose stool. I called the pedi and the nurse told me that it sounded like a virus (he didn't have a fever) and to bring him in if it lasted for a week. DS2 was also having frequent bowel movements, which surprised me because usually (IME) when the kids have diarrhea they don't poop for a while after, as things get back to normal, KWIM?
Long story short, the GI problems came & went until I finally realized that the diarrhea was starting a day or two after DS2 ate pizza at school. We took him off all dairy for a couple of weeks, his bowels returned to normal. I started him on Lactaid and he was fine for 3-4 days, then we had the familiar progression of yellowish, sour-smelling poops, which gave him that terrible diaper rash, to diarrhea a day or two later.
So now we have him totally off dairy. I'd already bought the dairy-free cheese stuff (forget the brand names) but now i'm really checking everything to make sure he gets no whey or casein.
We adopted DS2 from Korea at age 13 months, and I remember that his foster mom told the doctor at his pre-flight checkup that he'd been having a lot of diarrhea. S they gave us a couple cans of "milk allergy" formula...which gave him diarrhea on the morning of our flight home. The FM also told the doctor that DS2 was OK if he drank cow's milk, so we switched him to that immediately and he was alright once we got him home. He's been drinking milk and eating cheese ever since, so I thought he was OK. But, though his bowel function never really settled into a pattern - he didn't poop at the same time everyday, and the poops themselves were really different from one time to the next.
From what I've read, milk allergy symptoms usually happen a few hours after ingesting milk, but DS's symptoms have been showing up a few days later. Plus, he doesn't get swollen lips, hives, or raspy breathing. But the GI problems definately seem to be tied to milk. Anyone else have a child whose milk allergy showed up after infancy? Is there such a thing as "mild" milk allergy?