Hiya, my daughter was diagnosed lactose and soya intolerant at 12 weeks old, it was a real battle to get the docs to listen, They prescribed pregestamil for het which is a milk substitute that we fed and cooked with until she was 2 years old. She was a little small for her age but is catching up and now, nearly 5, is the picture of health and can take milk and soya. It's a relief to get the diagnosis because once their milk is changed they become so much more settled. Make sure his diet is varied and you screen his foods for stuff containing milk because you'd be suprised! And talk to your HV she will be able to give you some advice. Most children will grow out of it by the time they are 2.
If you've got any ?'s feel free to ask, I will try and answer them for u. XX
). We find that we can get away with most foods, it's only when they have a lot of milk in the diet that they get symptoms. Yoghurts, rice pudd, ice cream and stuff like that are out of the window but we still have stuff that has little bits of dairy in it. We've adjusted the diet of the whole family rather than doing separate stuff. We cooked Daniels stuff spearately when he was small, but with 3 of them, it's easier if we all have the same. We used to make recipes up with soya instead of normal milk, but it tastes horrid. We use goats cheese as a replacement - it still causes symptoms but they can have a lot more goats cheese than cows cheese before they start. WE've also found that they can cope with semi skimmed / skimmed a lot better than full fat normal milk - HV tells us off, but in stuff like mash it's better than nothing (goats milk and soya make mash horrible)
