Milk Intolerance/soy formula

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First to those of you really sick, or w/sick children, my thoughts and

prayers go out to you. Everyday when I read this I cringe for what some of

you are going through.

My questions if you can help:

One: Last year we took my now twenty month old off of milk formula because

he was gagging and coughing and when we switched him to soy he stopped.

About five weeks ago we got the eos. gasrto. diagnosis and started the

steriods. We have just begun the taper. W/ the Drs. o.k. we tried mixing

him half soy half milk. He began spittin up after some bottles, so we put

him on all soy. They say this probably makes him milk intolerant, but

disagree on whether he can eat cheese. What should we do? Is there a

definitive test for this or is he too young? What are the odds of

outgrowing this?

Two: I like our Drs. and think they do a good job. However, this seems to

be a somewhat rare disease and therefore maybe a complete specialist in the

field is needed. I don't feel that way yet, but for future refernce, is

there someplace, or some Dr. that specializes in this, particularly

pediatric ee.

As before, thanks for any help.

Good luck to all.

Pete