Hun, they may never grow out of it *groan* at the stupidity of GP's in this matter. My girls are both allergic to cows milk. This isn't an intolerance but an allergy. We have not had any dairy in our house in over a year now. As soon as I stopped all dairy intake, Jovie didn't have reflux anymore (funny that).

I went to an allergy/well being specialist in Brissy who cost an arm & a leg who tested Matilda and did kinesiology testing on Jovie. My girls are not lactose intolerant, or even milk intolerant, but are allergic. Intolerances can develop into allergies are allergies are less likely to be "grown out of" I listened to that advice for 3 years with Matilda and I wish I could have taken that time back. I was told she was a "difficult" baby, than a "tantrummy toddler" and then that she had "failure to thrive" as she was loosing weight, and never did a formed poo. We did poo samples for lactose intolerance when Matilda was 2 years old and were told that it wasn't the problem... it wasn't...it was the protein allergy. But the GP just shrugged. So I followed his advice... I shouldn't have, but I did.

When Jovie was 11 weeks old, she had reflux and was refusing to breastfeed, so I wet to a lactation consultant who took one look at her & one look at Matilda and said "your children are allergic to milk" I looked at her and said "So, what does that mean?" She put me on the total elimination diet and Jovie was better in 2 weeks. She still refused some feeds, but her reflux was gone and I got special formula from the GP to help when I didn't have enough milk. I weaned her off that formula entirely and only used a few tins. She breastfed mostly until she was 18 months. Then she went straight onto rice milk.

Occasionally the girls have had a biscuit or something with dairy in it... we see a reaction every single time.