What are the symptoms of lactose intolerance/milk allergy?

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She does seem to have a constant runny nose, but I've never thought to link the two. I have a gp appointment tomorrow, I might see if I can talk to him about this as well.

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MadB - thanks so much for that. Explains alot to do with my mum & sister.
I knew there was a difference between an allergy & intolerance, but didn't really know that difference was.

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The key thing is that the intolerance is to the lactose - sugar - and the allergy is to the protein. That said, it's also possible to have an intolerance to dairy protein.
There are 2 kinds of protein in cow's milk, which is why some people find the A2 thing helps. I reckon talking to a dietician might be a better idea than experimenting at home. You wouldn't have to do the whole elimination diet, since you already have a prime suspect.

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Yeah, I will do that I think.

She did have a tummy bug 3 weeks ago & I remember having to have DD2 on lactose free formula after she had rota virus, but I'm thinking its a bit late after the fact for it to be a gut lining problem. I only had to use that formula for DD2 for a week from memory. I might've gone a second week to err on the side of caution.

I think this may be something more & I think the problem has been around before, but she's never had this much milk before for me to notice a persistant problem.

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We think my DS2 is Lactose Intolerant, we never picked it up when he was little as they were FF Lactose Free formula but since switching to cows milk he started to have vile acrid BM's (up to 5 a day) which would literally burn his bum - not nappy rash but scalding from the acid. We also noticed that when he would do a BM he would pass alot of undigested food as well - like it was going straight through him. We switched him across to Lactose Free Cows Milk and Lactose free yogurt about 3 weeks ago and after a couple of days he started to doing formed BM's and only 1 maybe 2 a day and has only had 1 instance of burning poo (which was probably from him being on antibiotics recently which would have upset his gut) so we are just going to continue along the Lactose Free path with him for the time being