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RubyLee
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12 Jan 2007, 10:20 pm

EmmaMom wrote:
This is all great information. I could always take my daughter to an allergist and have the testing done so I wouldn't be guessing if a milk allergy is there. When she had colic at 2 weeks old and while I was nursing, I went on a total milk/whey free diet and her colic stopped in one week. I think I went overboard drinking milk when I was pregnant and after my child was born. Had her tested again she was about 2 and she seemed milk allergy-free.

We eat a very healthy diet now, weight is normal but do drink lots of milk, and eat moz. cheese sticks, lots of yogurt so it would be hard to stop all that. Oh yes and whipped cream last night on pumpkin pie!

I don't even know if an allergy is there now but this whole thing about allergies and AS interested me. So many web sites mentioned the pattern of teens with AS often had a mill allergy in their infant years.


This milk allergy thing is very interesting. I hadn't heard about it, so thanks for sharing. I'm not sure if I have AS or not, but when I was a baby I was severely allergic to milk. My parents didn't know so they kept giving it to me, and they say they have never heard a child scream like I did.



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30 Jan 2007, 2:55 am

It has made a world of difference to her. We did not know that she was having digestive troubles until I started asking her some specific questions. We started her on a GF diet about three months ago. Within two days, there was a dramatic change. She did not used to like to go anywhere and it turns out she was feeling so poorly and felt like she needed to be near a bathroom. (She did not share this with me until after going GF.) Anyway, the girl who would not go to a fun event in our own town managed a trip to a zoo over an hour away. She had fun and did not feel sick at all. Also, a lot of her old anxieties are completely gone.
She will be going CF soon. She has backed off a lot on dairy already and she takes a digestive enzyme too. This diet change was a lot easier than I thought. We use a lot of recipes from Carol Fenster's book Gluten-Free Recipes and Menus. There are lots of CF alternatives too. The basic bread recipe in it is fantastic. It uses some alternative flours that can be bought at bigger health food stores or from the Bob's Red Mill website. They also have GF mixes that are really good. The brownies are amazing.