What do you do if you have a milk allergy or intolerance?

Soy milk or lactose free milk. Did you switch her to whole milk all at once? When my daughter decided she was done nursing, she wasn't quite a year yet, so we used formula which she tolerated well. We then gradually changed it to whole milk (1 part whole milk to 7 parts formula, for example and then if she did okay, we did 2 parts to 6 parts, etc. until she was on whole milk) It could be an intolerance, but some children just need to adjust more slowly.

Even if she does no milk at all, she can get calcium and enough fat from other sources. Hopefully her doctor will refer you to a dietitian if it becomes too complicated.

Milk is not the magic ingredient that makes kids grow. The only reason why you are told to give your child whole milk is because whole milk is high in fat and children need to eat a high fat diet to develop properly.

You don't need to replace the milk with anything else. Water is fine. Cook with olive oil and coconut oil when possible. Ghee is clarified butter and might work if your child just has an intolerance, not an allergy. Avocados and nut butters are high in healthy fats. You can see if your child responds well to soy and give soy yogurt with ground almonds stirred in. You could add ground almonds to applesauce. If you have a coffee bean grinder or a food processor you can grind your own nuts for nut flour or even make your own nut butter. Eggs, salmon, mackerel, tuna, and trout are filled with healthy fats as well.

Soy milk, almond milk, and rice milk are fine to have something different to drink, but it's not necessary and they don't have the fat content that milk does, so it's not fulfilling it's true purpose that real milk does, which is to provide fat for your baby's brain.

Several of your answers have confused two very different issues.

A milk allergy or intolerance refers to an allergy or intolerance to cows milk protein (a form of beta casein). It is NOT related to lactose, and drinking lactose free milk will not help a person with an allergy or intolerance to beta casein.

Lactose is a sugar that is present in all mammalian milk (including human milk, which actually has more lactose than cows milk). Humans produce the enzyme lactase to digest lactose. Lactose intolerance occurs when a person does not produce lactase. All mammals except humans typically stop producing lactase after infancy. Humans tend to have 'lactase persistence', whereby we continue to produce the enzyme even as adults.

Many people, as they age, will eventually produce less lactase, so lactose intolerance is far more common in older people than young people. Humans are almost never lactose intolerant as babies - until the invention of lactose free infant formula, this form of lactose intolerance (primary lactose intolerance) was considered incompatible with life - that is, babies invariably died (that's why its so rare).

Lactose intolerance is almost always accompanied by diarrhoea.

In simple terms, an intolerance is different to an allergy in terms of severity, mainly. If your daughter has either, she should drink other milk - almond, soy, even coconut milk (apparently - its very calorific so I'd check with your doctor first on that one). Problem is that allergy or intolerance to nuts, soy etc is around about as common as allergy or intolerance to beta casein.

In this situation, you would be best to discuss how to proceed with your doctor, particularly if there is a family history of allergy or intolerance.

Change her milk.

My son had the same issue,so we switched him to Soy milk,but I started reading about how too much Soy isn't healthy so now he mostly drinks Almond milk. And he really likes the vanilla flavored.

Calcium ;

*Green vegetables - Broccoli,Kale,Spinach,Collard greens etc

*Seeds - Sesame and Flax

*Nuts - Brazil,Almond (And here you can always do Nut butters if choking is a concern)

*Herbs - Thyme,Oregano and Basil etc.

*Fortified breakfast cereals (dry and oatmeal)

*Fortified Orange juice

*White Beans

*Pink Salmon

She would probably drink soya milk its just the same as milk.she does have milk intolerance.

soy or lactose free milk.....they also make other lactose free stuff (yogurt cheese etc)