I'd have to disagree with this coment, soy and cows milk protien are very different, cows and goats and breast milk are very closeley linked, my daughter has multiple food allergies to dairy, eggs, all nuts and rye as well as been allergic to dogs and horses.  I don't know of anyone with a cows milk allergie that can tollerate gaots milk, and if they do they usually have an intolerance to cows milk and not an allergy. 

I must say that I haven't done the reading on it.  It is just that I have an ongoing relationship (professional relationship)  with my chiropractor, also including her treating of my son, and she had done a course on pediatrics, and that is what she told me from that.  She said something along the lines of, if the child is allergic to the protein in cows milk, switch them straight to goats milk, not soy milk, as soy milk has a similar protein structure.

This is not the same as a lactose intolerance, in which case goats milk should also be avoided and soy may be an option.  My son responded worse to soy milk than to cows milk.

Goats milk is available at my local Safeway/Woolworths and Coles, in the fresh milk section/fridge.  It is expensive, but nicer than the alternative in my opinion.

Sorry for any confusion.

Jodi

I will stop the cow's milk. But the weird thing is, I put a drop of cow's milk on their arm and their arm didn't turn red at all - no rash or anything!

I will look into goat's milk, though I wouldn't know the first thing on where to find it.

I have to say that the skin test is very unreliable.  One the allergy reaction is when in enters into the blood, hench they have to prick the skin (actually inject the allergin) for the skin tests.  The reason why they don't react is our skin is designed to keep such intruders out.  Hench the reaction when they ingest it.  Also my girls specialist told me to never try the skin method as it can trigger a potenially life treatening reaction and most often needs immediate medical attention, which is not often able to occur in the home.  Hang in there Izzy.

When did you have your daughter tested?

and what do you do now? it seems a lot of product contains eggs.

This morning I decided to start a food diary and was planning on doing that for a week or two and bring it to the pediatrician. Well, wouldn't you know it, 10 minutes after I fed the girls yogurt, the red spots came.

OH I would definately NIX all food with dairy in it then....the reactions will just get worse....

Wow, it'll get worse? I will stop then.

I may continue to do a food diary for a week and then take them to the pediatrician.

It can IF the levels in their blood get high enough...I would stop. The rash may end up all over their body....

I go to a reflux board at www.parent-2-parent.com

They ahave an allergy board where you could talk to other parents who are more educated about this than me...But I would stop.

I don't think they will have like an anaphalatic reaction, but the rash coudl get worse.

Were they on regular formula?????

I am still breastfeeding, so they are not on formula at all. They were on some formula for the first 2 months of their life, and never had a reaction then. But I guess that doesn't mean anything since it could have developed later.

Thank you very much.

The other thing to remember is the doctor is right, it isn't a common reaction to a milk allergy. The reaction you are saying with hives immediately can be an indicator of a strong reaction. So you really should get it looked into further without introducing anymore milk as a more severe reaction might happen.

thank you for your input!

Some how I have it in my head that I should be pushing milk to get the system get used to it. Bad thinking! So I'm so glad about this discussions here! It is better to be cautious.

Not all kids who tolerated normal BM or normal formula can tolerate cow's milk.

My sister's DD did fine at the breast and did fine on formula later (about 6 months) but she can't tolerate milk at all....not one bit. It gives her  GI issues. Meaning she get explosive explosive dirreah...yucky!!!!

So jsut becaus ethey have don efine up until now doesn't mean the ywill continue to do fine at the transition. I only asked because that *can* be a triggar.

I wouldn't go full out of somethign WAY differnt yet. My niece tolerates Soy milk just fine. Taht woudl be my next step. It's the next cheapest...LOL so I would work my way through that first. Before going to anything that would be more costly.