Our son will be 3 in February, and he still has an allergy to casein (has to avoid most milk-based products). Do any moms out there know when he might outgrow it?
My daughter is 7 and she can now have everything but milk and yogurt. Interestingly, she can have organic yogurt without problems. I am very careful to only buy organic dairy products for her. She never has a reaction to organic with the exception of actual milk.
My son was diagnosed with severe casein sensitivity at age 4. For one whole year after the diagnosis he was completely milk free. After the year, we started him on goat milk products. He loves goat cheese. Goat dairy has different casein then cow dairy. You can google Goat casein vs. milk casein to see the research and difference. After he had a great success with the goat products, we slowly introduced yogurt, cultured cream cheese and aged cheese to him. He is doing well on that. He is 5 and we are slowly giving him more and more cheese, and other dairy. We only give alittle at a time and keep it slow. He is 5 now and doing great.
Edit to add... I also only use organic dairy with him as he seems to tolerate it better. Organic yogurt, cream cheese, frozen yogurt, ect.
There's no way to know. Most kids outgrow by about age 6; some outgrow it older, some younger and some never at all. My 7.5 year old cannot tolerate even the smallest amounts of dairy. :(
Maybe never. One of my siblings is almost 40 and still can't tolerate milk. It has gotten slightly better than as a child, and can tolerate a little cheese now.
They usually outgrow it by age 6. One of my grandsons had the same allergy and once he hit age 6 he was able to have some milk products. He still can't have things with cream (like whipped cream or rich custards) but can eat some things.
It depends entirely how how you supplement to improve the immune system. This is an auto-immune reaction - an unusual reaction to something that should be harmless. Most of these sensitivities can be eliminated or significantly reduced. If someone has an anaphylactic reaction, that's much more difficult to eradicate but at least the person can be brought to the point of not having a life-threatening reaction through accidental cross contamination. Usually dairy allergies are not anaphylactic.
Outgrowing on his own? Maybe, maybe not. A lot has to do with the reduction and elimination of the inflammation that's already there, and the overall absorption of all nutrients to put the body back in balance. You can wait it out, or you can do something proactive to reestablish the balance that should be there but isn't. That's not usually a medical approach.
The science of epigenetics has really addressed a great number of immune system problems. Many medical doctors dismissed it for years but now most are changing their tune. It's not their fault really - most have not studied nutrition or non-pharmaceutical approaches in medical school. But with advances in everything from cholesterol reduction to cancer prevention to work in diabetes and neuromuscular diseases (everything on the autoimmune continuum), there's a giant shift in the thinking. That's why a lot of parents aren't doing as much allergy testing or NG tubes and all that, but moving to a preventive nutritional approach.
