Re:In response to milk elimination

[Guest guest]

Ouch - that sounds awful - but my kids get terrible gas and acid reflux on

milk (doesn't affect their speech, just their digestion, seems to be casein)

- is there anything besides bones that anyone knows of? I give them regular

supplements, but this worries me and would appreciate any suggestions.

[Guest guest]

If it helps...my son has autism and apraxia. He isn't allergic to milk, but

when we eliminated casein, we saw some wonderful changes and his SEVERE reflux

vanished...and he was on a senior citizen dose of prevacid prior to that. His

reflux disappeared in 36 hours.

Our nutritionist recommended a mixture of rice milk (14 oz) mixed with 2 oz

coconut milk (for the fat) and a scoop of metagenics' Ultracare for kids (for

calcium & protein) which you can find on iherb.com. Ultracare for kids is made

for kids with allergies and is gluten/soy/nut etc. free. It tatses like a

vanilla shake, he is getting it 3-4x a day. My older son loves it too, so it

actually does taste good! This particular combination meets the requirements

for infant formula (my son is almost 2 but is in the 8th percentile for weight

so I want the extra fat). Before you eliminate milk, I would talk to a

nutritionist (we work with Dorfman, she does phone consults)to make sure

your child gets everything nutritionally he needs...rice milk alone won't cut

it. That being said, my son used to refuse to eat (and 4 of his five foods that

he would take were dairy based)and about 6 weeks after we eliminated casein he

started trying new things. My guess is this is how long it took his esophagus

to heal and at that point eating didn't hurt anymore. I still feel guilty that

for the first 19 months of his life he was in physical pain because of dairy,

but now feel good he is getting the calcium/fat/protein he needs and is no

longer throwing up and crying in pain. He is also on a compounded multi

vitamin, fish oil and some other things for nutritional support.