Intolerance to Dairy and Soy Milk?

Sometimes babies/people that are allergic to milk products are also allergic to soy. This is the case with myself & my daughters. Soy made us gassy. I use rice milk.

Hi M.,
My son is lactose intolerant. About two hours after consuming yogurt, cheese, ice cream, milk, etc., he'll get a tummy ache and then loose poop/diarrhea.

The only way to know for sure is to eliminate all lactose from your son's diet for a week or two. It used to take my son four to six days to recover from lactose ingestion, so one day dairy free won't work. You said your son still eats yogurt and cheese. Guess what? Yogurt and cheese contain lactose too. I buy lactose free milk from Walmart or Safeway. The one in my fridge now is Dairygold brand. There's also soy milk, as you know, and also Lactaid milk. Lactose free milk tends to be less expensive.

So - I would suggest eliminating ALL milk based products like yogurt, cheese and milk for a week or two. Use lactose free milk instead.

My son is now four and can have small amounts of lactose without a terrible reaction. It used to take only one bite of yogurt to set it off. Once he could chew, we bought, and continue to use, Lactaid chewable pills.

Good luck.

I adopted my second son at the age of 4 weeks, and he was a sorry-lookin' little guy, crying and fussing and uncomfortable. Everyone thought it was because he had been drug-exposed in utero. However, I realized fairly soon that it was because his stomach was upset. He was allergic to both milk and soy. I finally found several brands of specialty formula that he could deal with, and I didn't give him any other milk or soy products until he was three or four, and by that point, his allergies had disappeared. Let's hope your boy will get over those allergies soon!

I'm not lactose intolerant, but my husband, both of my daughters, my sister-in-law and my father-in-law are. I can't have soy and neither can my youngest daughter. Those types of symptoms are very common for both problems. Have you tried any lactose-free milk? It's a little bit sweeter so kids usually like it. My kids do. They also have lactose pills that you could try, but I'm not sure about the age limit on those. All they are is the lactase enzyme that we all have in our stomaches already, except for lactose intolerant people, of course. So they help break down the lactose in dairy.

Try goat's dairy! It is more easily tolerated than cow's by a lot of people. You can find goat cheddar cheese- it's really good- and yogurts too (milk of course.)

I would suggest using Myers Goats milk. as a baby my mom could not breastfeed and I was very lasctose intolerant so they put me on that. I heard claims that is extreamly close to breast milk (as far a how it breaks down). You can get it at most supermarkets in the Milk section or I know you can get cans of it but I don't remember what section they are in. Keep in mind that I cannot stand anything goatlike today but I did very well on it as a child!!

My 15 month old loves vanilla soy milk and when he drinks more than 8oz a day, his poops are stinky and a little loose. I know when I was on Nutrisystem for 3 months the gas was horrible! I read online that Nutrisystem adds soy in their to up the protein, which is healthy. However a side effect of soy is bad gas....I think it is the soy. Can you try rice milk? I think it tastes better than soy and as long as he is eating healthy meals you should be fine with nutrition.

Hello M.,

My son has been having reactions to milk products as well . . . I could not eat any when breastfeeding him. Now at 16 months old, I feed him a mix of enriched rice milk with a little coconut milk (to get some fat) and I give him soy yogurt (some soy yogurts are nasty and some a good . . . you'll have to try a few brands). I would try cutting ALL milk products and ingredients for 1-2 weeks, then adding them back one at the time to see the difference in your son's health. Good luck!

H M.!

Sounds like you are on top of it. Take a little bit of the soy milk and test it on the interior of his arm. If it swells up, or gets red, he most likely has an allergy or irritation with soy. You could also try rice milk. Very sweet and easy to take. Good for you for listening to your instincts.

M. S

We do soy milk too and my son's poop was often loose and stinky. Turned out once when the poop was explosive, he was teething. Anyhow, you could try rice milk, but with us, we just kept of the soy milk gave him cow's milk occasionally. He gets lots of cheese, but not much yogurt. It seems the more carbs he gets, the firmer my son's poop is.

Keep trying things, the poop will get firmer.

yes, cut out all cheese and all yogurt and start also by cutting out any food with whey or casein in it (milk ingredients). Then reintroduce those things if he's tolerating it well. My son became 100% lactose intolerant suddenly around 2. HE was always fine before that. Alot of things have dried milk powder in them. We even found out that McDs french fries and chicken nuggets have milk! (not that that's the healthiest thing anyway). With our son, we totally eliminated all of the above things, and he did great! Oh and you don't have to buy expensive goat milk etc... soy milk, almond or rice milk works- just make sure he takes a multi-vitamin to get vitamin D and A I think....

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Love, G.. :0)