please can any one help me my baby who is soon to be one is lactose intolerant and i am finding it really hard finding food that she can have. please can any one help

Hi,

My friend has a little boy who is now 7 and had the same problem, she doesn't live local to me anymore but I will see if she can post me some info or give me any advice on the phone and I will post a mess back to you.  It must be so hard for you, has your docotr given you much help?   Keep your chin up, I am sure when you get used to it it will become easier to go shopping etc.  Take care sweetie x

 

hi hun thanks for your reply, the doctors haven't been much help it took me months of fighting to get her onto soya milk i have asked to be refered to dietion but still waiting for app.  tried to make her a birthday cake but it was a disater not much of a baker but we will get there.  take care xx

I've only just read this post so I'm coming at this very late.

Have you been in contact with Allergy UK?  I'm sorry I don't have a link but my daughter has multiple allergies (food and otherwise) and they have been marvellous in supporting and informing us.  I'd definately get in contact with them.

Very best of luck.   

Jacqui

our daughter is also lactose intolerant, just like her mum, but we get around really well with Lactofree's lactose intolerance range, here's a link to their further resources.

both my wife & Sophie (our daughter) have been reacting really well with their products. I'd recommend you try. There's always the worry that, u know, different organisms might react differently but we never had problems. we even bake pancakes and goodies with their products and it's been fine.

 do have a look. it's not a website to sell as much as to provide good information.

 

hope this helps! 

hi my name is julia

my son was lactose intolerant

but

doctors said he may grow out of it

he was very good as a child i found he didnt eat things he couldnt have  and it never botherd him

when he was 2 i was really worried about his teeth as he had no calcium at all

so i started to  buy him yogurt normall not dairy free . he took to them really well and since i have introduced things very slowly

he can now eat almost anything

he cannot eat icecream

and still has dairy free butter and milk but other than that he has choclate in small dosses

so my advice to u as am

 mum is just introduce things that u have every day dont go buying expensive things just for him

try things in small dosses if it goes through leeve it a few months and try again

my son is very fit and healthy . and nos his limits

u will find it is harder when they go to school or partys leaving whom ever with a list of things they cant have its heart renching so try things early .hope this helps and u may email anmytime julia from mum to mum

I'm lactose intolerant, but it didn't kick in until I was a teenager, and even then it wasn't that bad, so I didn't twig until more recently.  Despite that, I used to love milk as a child, but I remember I just went off it as I got older - obviously my subconsious was ahead of me, lol.

It seems that being lactose intolerant is a bit of a scale thing, and I'm fine with smaller amounts, and things like yoghurt and mature cheese are much more forgiving.  I just switched to soya milk for my cereal and porridge of a morning, and that helped a lot. 

 

You can also get lactase tablets, which help you to digest the lactose, but they are only suitable for you when you are older, and would work out very pricey if you used them all of the time.  I'm not sure how reliable they'd be if you were very intolerant.  I take them if I'm eating out and find dairy hard to avoid and don't want to risk the discomfort, or if I feel the need of a splurge.  I've tried the lactose reduced milk and cheese, but decided I'd rather stick to soya milk, and the only cheese they do so far is mild.  It's alright, and better than the dairy free "cheese", but a bit tasteless for me.  However, it's probably ideal for children, but check the salt content.

 

I'd recommend anyone trying to put a child, especially a young child, on any kind of restrictive diet, speaks to their GP and asks for a referal to a nutritionist.  Getting the right amount of fats and calcium is so important at that young age, and can be quite tricky to get right.

 

I still have some dairy, but have substituted milk in my porridge for soya milk, and have used the lactose reduced milk and cheese.   Mature cheeses and yoghurt tends to have reduced lactose compared with the equivalent "fresh" dairy products.

Hi, I have a child (now 30) who was completly dairy intollerant, and two grandchildren, one 8 and one 10 months bot milk intollerant.

I make most of their meals myself using soya milk such as chocolate orange rice pudding as I found pasta, potato, and fish meals all had butter/cheese or dairy added.  Remember if you buy fresh meat and veg, you can do a mass batch of meals and freeze them.  We did 36 meals last time, enough to last over two weeks, so you only need to do this every so often.  The baby eats every single veg going, and we make some just veg, some beef, pork, chicken or turkey to give her different all the time.

We buy a lot of the alpro soya yogurt (not the one you can keep out of the fridge) as the baby loves the smooth ones.  We also use soya butter, milk and cheese.   Tesco do a soya cheese spread, which the baby loves on toast.

If you have a Sainsburys near to you you can find a lot of their free from range such as cookies, biscuits, fruit pies, cake, pasta, chocolate buttons, etc. They also do milk free ice cream, custard and cream.  Holland and Barrett are good for soya chocolate and other bits as well, and also excellent for advice.

Certain religions will not mix milk and meat so you find good ranges of products dairy free in certain areas, have not tried but you may be able to find a cake in these special deli shops if you ask.

I have even found advent calenders with soya chocolate this year, but due to the high price I am going to make my own with the Sainsburys chocolate buttons.  This was on Amazon.

When we went to the hospital dietician, she said I had more information, and better recipes than her. 

Having spent years reading labels, and seeing how many products contain milk, when you don't expect it, you get used to recognising the brands.

Hope this helps.