Help from mums with dairy intolerant children please

[PinkPalace]

Some of you know my story...

in short
DD isnt allergic to dairy - but at 12 months when we weaned her to full time cows milk - she had frequently runny/sloshy poos. So after a couple of months i put her on soy milk and the poos firmed up.

Anyhow - we are now 2 years and the last month i thought we will try again - it was so far so good on cows milk (she only has about 100-150ml a day).

The past 2 days she started having mucousy diarrhea and today has had blood in it.

Obviously first reaction was a infection - but no fevers, no vomitting, no loss of appetite.

Dreadful dreadful blistering nappy rash from the diarrhea.. and then i thought..

4 weeks of back on dairy... does it sound like the intolerance to the milk again?
ie causing a colitis of somekind?

I am going to go back to soy now and seeing our GP in about an hour but wanted your views from experience too

*hug*

TIA

[Celsie]

Oh poor baby. I was hoping she'd made an improvement by this morning. Let us know how you go at the doctors. for you and especially DD.

[christy]

Oh hun.... sounds like it to me. Sometimes kids with lactose intolerance get blood in their poos. Dairy allergy leaves them with frothy mucousy poo too.

We've never even tried milk with either girl since our diagnosis. I occasionally will try something like a milk arrowroot biscuit to see what happens, and most of the time I've had bad reactions to just that, so I assume we are still in no go land and maybe forever. Probiotics help clear them up as well when they do get something with milk in it.

[PinkPalace]

Yep the doc agrees with me - we are going no cows milk for a few weeks to see if it clears up .
Look like it will be soy or rice milk for my little one again

[Eenee]

is it the lactose in the milk that she is intollerant to?? If so you can get lactose free cow's milk.

[PinkPalace]

i am not sure what it is
She is fine with cheese and yougurt.