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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Milk for babies with milk allergy?
DD has been on Alimentum since she was 6 weeks old and we discovered she has a milk allergy. As she got older and started eating table foods, we tried giving her tiny bits of food with milk in them. Like cheese, and yogurt, milkshake, etc... She always breaks out slightly just around her mouth so obviously she is still allergic to milk.
She will be a year old in about 8 weeks. We would like to stop the formula and go to cow's milk, but the allergy presents a problem. What can we give her in place of the formula?
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Re: Milk for babies with milk allergy?
The official recommendation in Canada is that babies should either get breast milk, whole cows milk or formula til 2. Milk substitutes are not adequate nutritionally for infants under two. And especially under 1-- I would definitely keep LO on formula. My DS is severely allergic to milk so I am just going to keep nursing him and see if he grows out of the milk allergy in 6 months or so. If he would accept formula then I would consider that too but he won't.
My Ped told us soy milk would be ok but all the sources I find online say it isn't complete enough for a baby under two.
Here's my answer to a similar question:
Coconut milk is better, IMHO. Its fat most closely resembles the fat in breast milk, but I didn't know that when DS1 first moved on to milk. And, now I'm talking myself out of my almond milk answer. We may move on to coconut milk... who knows? Hemp is another good alternative. Lower in protein but HIGH in Omega 3s. Like, full RDV in a single serving. At our markets, hemp is the most expensive.Almond milk has the least sugar. BUT, it also is lower in calories than most of the alternatives. Back in 2010 (when I started my research), I thought the sugar content was the most important thing. Obv, I've got some other factors to consider this time around.Rice is the least likely to be an allergen, but it's really high in sugar and lacking in protein. So, we scratched it from our list of possibilities.Soy is also really good in terms of nutrition, but I have boys and soy is an estrogen replacement. I didn't want to make their main source of calories an estrogen replacement when we use small amounts of soy elsewhere in our diet. I'm not comfortable with that.
You can always post questions on the Food Allergy board. Many, MANY moms on that board are working around dairy allergies.