Soy ALLERGY (Includes info on milk allergy)

[swak8201]

My son has been tested for milk and soy alleries. The skin tests for soy was positive. Milk was neg. But they did blood test to double check. He will be one year old on June 25th. He has been soooo happy since he has had a dairy and soy free diet. BUT...its sooooo hard for me to feed him. I spent hours at the grocery store reading labels. EVERYTHING has soy in it. Does anyone else have this issue? What do you eat or feed your child with this allergy. Also, if he has milk issues, what do I give him to drink? I have been giving him the VERY $$ formula for allergies. Its 26 bucks a can. The cheapest I can get it is 13 bucks a can. Still a ton of money for a 16 oz can. HELP!!

[MrsPinecone]

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I believe that he can probably have fortified rice milk.

[Nice1704]

Did his blood test show any allergy to milk? If not, you can give him cow's milk (after he turns 1, of course). My younger dd had a blood test reading towards milk for around 3.xx (can't remember exact value) at 6 months of age. Repeat testing at 1 year of age showed the milk allergy had gone down to 1.xx. Her pediatrician said we could start on cow's milk even though the her levels had not yet gone down to zero. He said children that age need the fat available in cow's milk. However, since I was nursing her (still am!), I didn't press too hard for her to drink cow's milk.......she still only drinks it once in a while and only a quarter to half cup at that! Or, mixed in her cereal! Her one year testing also showed a slight soy allergy (3.xx) and I can soooo agree with you...it is VERY difficult to avoid things with soy in them! Almost everything seems to have it! I did ask the Dr. whether rice milk was an option but he seemed to think that that should be a last resort since it doesn't have enough fat that babies that age need.

Another thing you may want to consider if his blood test for milk was negative but he still has issues with milk........he may be 'intolerant' to milk which is completely different from a milk allergy and won't show up in allergy tests. There are other tests though for milk (lactose) intolerance.

Good luck with your ds's allergies........I know from experience how tough they are to deal with! However, you can rest assured that most allergies like mild milk and soy allergies usually go away as they get older. It is only peanut allergy (which my dd also has!) that is rarely outgrown...

[greenrays]

You can feed rice milk, almond milk.... make sure if you do the rice milk that you get one that is fortified b/c just regular rice milk has a ton of carbs in it. You will have to find other ways to get proteins and calcium in your kiddo: meats, adding olive oils to foods(pastas), avocados etc. There is a lot of other foods-- you can google "calium and toddlers" or "protein in toddlers"

So Delicious has dairy and soy free milk and yogurt. they just came out with the coconut milk and I haven't tried it yet but I saw it at Whole Foods and at Kroger.
Turtle Mountain - So Delicious Coconut Milk Beverage You can also contact them and they'll send you coupons.

My son has a severe dairy allergy and we've been dairy free house for over a year now and we did avoid soy but only for a month or so.

Faan is a great website to join, they have tons of recipes and ideas. The grocery trips get much much easier, we still read and re-read every label incase of food changes but I promise it gets better!!!

The first few months of a "new diet" were sooo hard and confusing.


Food Allergies - BabyCenter is a good site also for moms going through the same stuff and recipe ideas!!

[swak8201]

Thank you everyone for your time!!! It means alot to me! I did not get his blood work back yet. Next wed. I will have it. The skin test on the milk was neg. 12 minute test. But the soy was positive in less then 3 and he got a rash on his chest. Does the time that it shows a positive determine how bad the allergy is? I am new to all of this. I have some nut allergies myself. But nothing serious. Just feels like I am chewing on razer blades!!!!! Thanks for your help!

[notmstewart]

My now 4 yr old was tested at 10 months and got positive results for nearly everything they tested! We had to avoid dairy, soy, peanut, peas, wheat, goat milk and eggs!! I was breastfeeding, so I had to avoid all of those as well!

The adjustment was not easy at all. His blood tests showed the same results as his skin test and we went thru hell for quite a while afterwards because with the dairy and soy and wheat, there was hardly anything left!

The links already given by others are excellent resources. With my son, he either outgrew or was misdiagnosed on most of his list of allergies. He is still definitely allergic to dairy and we are avoiding peanuts to be on the safe side, but we can live with it a lot easier than when we had the whole list to avoid.

One thing I have done, which has made life a lot easier is to make a list of ingredient words to be avoided. Dairy had a ton of different names it can hide under. I carry my list with me everywhere. After dealing with the allergy for this long, I've gotten pretty good at knowing which words to avoid, but it helps to have that list when I come across a word I'm not sure of. I'm always checking online to make sure my list is still accurate too.

Good luck! I did learn that early testing (considered anything before 2 yrs old) isn't always accurate. You can get false negatives and you can get false positives (like we did). I'm still holding out hope that my ds outgrows the rest of his allergies. "Most" kids who have the allergies young "usually" outgrow them.

[MrsPinecone]

Yes, milk can hide behind names like casein (milk protein) or caramel color (dairy based). It depends on how bad the allergy is when you are trying to figure out what ingredients to avoid.

[greenrays]

www.godairyfree.com is a GREAT site for dairy allergies
Eating Dairy-Free? again ...dairy allergies

You can pm me anytime if you need to scream or ask any questions. My toddler is contact allergic along with being a level 4 with dairy. He reacts to cross-contamination and will break out in all body hives if we touch him after we eat pizza or doritos or anything with dairy in it. I have a friend who stays away from dairy, soy and lots of others, I will ask her for some ideas for you and come back (she is always on the baby center site tho so I'm sure you can get a lot from the posts on there also)


Did you allergist test for ALL the top 8?? The skin test we did at 8months old was only + for dairy, yet soy and corn was a little raised on there. We rast tested right afterwards and He was highly allergic to dairy, moderately to peanuts (didn't even show up on scratch test) and fine with soy and corn. So allergies are just a crap shoot imo!!

[greenrays]

Originally Posted by MrsPinecone Yes, milk can hide behind names like casein (milk protein) or caramel color (dairy based). It depends on how bad the allergy is when you are trying to figure out what ingredients to avoid.

In the last year I have found that caramel color is more from corn and hardly ever has lactose in it. My sensitive kiddo hasn't ever had an issue with caramel coloring. Always call the company though and ask if you have any questions about their products, they've always been super nice to me!!

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Also you may want to check and see if your kiddo breaks out with soy lecithin. Supposedly it's not classified as soy (and is in EVERYTHING) but some kiddos with soy allergies have sensitivity to it.

[swak8201]

You all are just so wonderful!! Thank you. I have been staying away from EVERYTHING soy. If it has the word soy, I dont give it to him. He is a new baby! He used to scream when he would eat, have NASTY diapers, rashes, diaper rashes so bad he would bleed, runny noses all the time, ear infections, and wet sounds in his throat. Awful. Ever since I stopped all dairy and soy of any kind, all this has gone away!!! I will check out all the sites. Thank you all. I cant wait for his appt. to see where we stand on levels.