My dd has had food sensitivities since 4 months. It started with carrot, sweet potatoes and rice and now has become Lactose intolerant. She has outgrown the sensitivities to orange fruits n veggies, but rice and lactose cause a major diaper rash with blistering! We have been giving her soy formula since 7m., and are nearing the 1 year mark(11/28). I have been giving her 1 cup of plain soy daily along with 4 6oz bottles, she likes it, but I hate the fact she has SO much soy in her diet. Does anyone know much about Hemp milk??
I cannot get this girl to eat any meat but natural hot dogs and breakfast sausages. I bought Boca soy chi'ken, but again more soy. One day without thinking I gave her a Garden burger and she had a horrible reaction to the rice in the burger :( We are a very natural/organic family. Any help would be greatly appreciated. What the heck can I feed this girl?
Soy yogurt has rice flour and coconut yogurt has rice starch!!
I also want to add:
I first purchased Coconut milk as a filler instead of the 1 cup of plain soy milk, but I gave her a cup and she had a bad diaper rash again. Would this be lactose intolerance or a milk protein thing??
So I broke down and called the Dr. She said since she feels she is lactose intolerant not to give her Goats milk. Since it is a mammals milk it contains lactose; which she will more than likely cause her to react. Her pedi suggested supplementing with Soy or Hemp milk. Good to know!! :)
I'm sorry but the comment about a baby not eating until they have teeth just seems wrong to me. My daughter will be 1 on the 28th and still has no teeth. She would not be getting everything she needs off of formula or breast milk. She would be starving!!
I tried hemp milk and preferred it to soy. However, I'm a cow's milk person. I haven't tried yet (but would like to) goats milk and have heard it's actually the closest to breast milk. Would be worth giving it a try. Good luck.
I have been an organic eater for more than 40 years. So what I am about to tell you is borne of long experience and I've been in practice as an alternative healer longer than that.
No wonder your daughter is food sensitive. A four month old baby does not need food. They live on mother's milk and if necessary rice cream.
A BABY DOES NOT EAT UNTIL HE/SHE HAS TEETH. Period!
Now try your child on goat milk. Try it as a 1/4 cup and increase to half a cup if she has no reaction for two days. Goat milk has the consistency of mother's milk. I kept goats for many years so that my children could have fresh goat milk, yogurt and cheese. That was before goat milk was available in every health food store. You can freeze it.
Coconut is too strong for an allergic child. Stay off nuts. Introduce them one at a time.
One of my children had celiac disease and if I had not known all that I did I would have made endless mistakes. Our whole family had trouble with cows milk in those years.
You need to buy a few books on allergies in small children. It'll help you to learn what to do and what not to do.
I've been allergic all my life but in this country the method that really works is forbidden. Bioresonace takes the allergy out of the body. If I hadn't been working in Europe I would still be unable to eat normally. No more lactose intolerance, no more wheat allergies.
We've really got to get BIG PHARMA out of dictating what is all right and what is not in medical care.
Question for you: Do you know for sure that she is lactose intolerant instead of allergic to cows milk protein? Having an allergy to cows milk protein is very common among young children and is a condition most will out-grow. Being lactose intolerant is different than allergic to cows milk protein; it refers to the person's body not producing the enzyme to breakdown lactose (the sugar in all animal based milk); lactose intolerance is a life-long food allergy.
The reason I asked is because the diet for one is very different than the dietary restrictions for the other. You can find cows milk formulated for lactose intolerance (I think the milk's brand name is Lactaid-?) and you can get a prescription for enzymes to help digest lactose. However foods marketed for lactose-free diets may still contain cows milk protein.
My daughter has a cows milk protein allergy. I chose not to go the soy milk route (she gets enough soy just from foods made with vegetable oil!); instead her diet incorporates goat milk, goat yogurt/butter/cheese, and sheep cheese/yogurt. Of course, these foods obviously contain lactose, so a person with lactose intolerance would not be able to eat the same foods.
I was told it's important for young children to have diary fat in their diet since it's necessary for brain cell development. If you don't know for sure which she is, I suggest you work with a pediatric allergist to confirm what her exact food allergies, because you may be excluding food options unnecessarily--which makes challenges for feeding her which may not be necessary either.
As for protein sources, you can look at microwaved egg yolk & soy cheese (no egg white before 12 months, maybe longer if she has other food sensitivities); egg yoke noodles also contain protein (serve with chicken or beef gravy mixed in with the noodles). I also made canned chicken (minced up tiny with a fork; no chunks) and mayonnaise. Retried beans and lentils are also protein sources.
Check with your daughter's pediatrician on using Goat's Milk (and NOT the canned stuff- you can get it just like cow's milk and a lot of people with lactose intolerance are beginning to use it.) It is usually from Organic Farms. I use it because I like it. In fact, both my children and my husband do too! My children never notice any difference when I give it to them and always ask for more! There is a company in CA that makes ice cream out of Goat's Milk too (though I would have to do a search because I can not remember the name). I hope this helps.
Addition:
I use "Meyenberg Goat Milk Products" and I think one ice cream company is "LaLoo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream Company."
Hi L.,
Hemp milk is fine, so is almond milk (nut allergies?). I prefer goat's milk. It is closer to mother's milk than any other milk. Soy in a little girl's diet can wreak havoc on development. I would avoid it as much as possible.
We eat organically also but you might want to think about avoiding pork. Does she have a problem with chicken? Most allergies are caused by an overabundance of chemicals in the system and even though you're not "eating" them in the processing of foods, she may be absorbing them through your laundry detergent? soaps? even your perfume? Have you detoxed your home? We did and ALL my allergies went away. There is never a time the human body should have an allergy to something natural. If there is an allergy, there is an underlying problem that can be solved.
If this is something you don't know and you'd like to know more, feel free to get back with me. If you know all this, please forgive. Detoxing did wonders for everyone in our whole family.
Regards,
M.
Hemp milk is actually reallly really really good for you better for you then rice milk is. My little guy drank it for awhile until he outgrew his issue with soy and dairy.
just wanted to add that goat's milk is very different structurally, which is why a lot of people can tolerate it when they can't digest regular milk. i would give it a try before going the soy route. i have celiac's disease and am unable to process cow milk without discomfort but i am fine on goat products.
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good luck!
I never tried hemp milk but what about almond milk? Is she too young for any nuts (check with doctor, I don't know for sure)?
