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When I brought my newborn home from the hospital I prepared going to feed him some formula when he broke out in a terrible rash just from the formula coming in contact with his skin! I was (and still am) breastfeeding, but wanted to supplement. However, I didn't because of this reaction. I told the doctor and she suggested I try soy. My son is now fifteen months old and if I but touch milk or dairy products to his skin he breaks out in hives. My husband once gave him a bite of toast which he thought was regular bread. However it was buttermilk bread...my sons eyes turned red and welty, he had red welts on his face, neck, and chest. He became congested and wheezed. My husband, in a panic, gave him allergy dimeatap. This isn't just lactose intolerate. I would like to wean him, but am afraid he will not receive the proper calcium and other nutritional benefits of cows milk. I read that soy does not provide the benefits of animal milk....and that soy can promote estogen in the body, therefore not a healthy solution for children. What do you suggest.
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Hi Kathy,
Contrary to what a lot of people are taught (me included), our bodies don't need milk to be healthy. Please take the time to read through the milk archive and come back with more questions if you need to.
Here's an article written by Dr. Stoll:
MILK; NATURE'S PERFECT FOOD?
Cow’s milk is NOT “nature’s perfect food” for humans. Since I was born and raised on a large dairy farm in Ohio, I am sure that this article will cause my father to “turn over in his grave”. However, truth is truth so here goes: There are many reasons for the above statement but space limits me to just mentioning a few of them. I will list them not necessarily in the rank of their importance. Those readers who actually can see the relationship to their own experience would likely put their own condition at the top. It is well accepted that more than 50% of the white race is deficient in lactase—the enzyme in the gut that permits us to digest lactose (milk sugar). The lack of this enzyme leaves us only fermentation as a way to deal with lactose. Fermentation causes the production of gas (which digestion does not), which results in bloating & cramps in that individual. The black race is 75% deficient and the yellow race nearly 100% deficient. That hardly sounds like “nature’s perfect food”. Of course, we now have lactase pills to try to resolve this. I question why adult humans have lost their lactase production. Could there be a reason that has to do with general health? If so, the marvels of modern science have just given us lactase to defeat that purpose. Will there be a “whoops factor”?
We now know that at least a large percentage of juvenile diabetics are caused by an immunological reaction to poorly digested casein (the protein in cow’s milk). How this can happen is described in last week’s column about LGS. Since juvenile diabetes is the most severe kind of diabetes, cow’s milk is not “nature’s perfect food” for children either.
For the adult with LGS, the poorly digested casein allows particles of that protein (peptides) to escape into the blood stream which then sets off the production of antibodies tailored exactly to those peptides. It just so happens that those peptides are identical to the endorphins in the brain that are associated with depression and panic attacks. In addition, many of these same peptides make up proteins in our own bodies. The antibodies cannot tell the difference so they just attack them all—a basic cause of many chronic conditions listed in many times on this 'site and in the the Newsweek article.
Dairy products are among the poorest sources of calcium that exist—in spite of the dairy industry trying to cash in on the current calcium panic about osteoporosis. You need to know that calcium is balanced with phosphorus via the parathyroid glands. In the human, calcium is high and phosphorus is low (in blood and milk). The higher the calcium, the lower the phosphorus gets and vice versa. In cows, the phosphorus is high and the calcium is low (in blood and milk). So, the more cow’s milk you get, the more phosphorus you get (in relationship to calcium) and the lower your human blood and milk calcium will be. Cow’s milk is “nature’s perfect food” for cows and human milk is “nature’s perfect food” for humans. If you are serious about finding the foods that are good sources of calcium, you will have to go to the library & ask the reference librarian for a book that lists foods along with their mineral content. Look for those foods with high calcium and low phosphorus. You will find that cow’s milk is the opposite.
Commercially produced cow’s milk is nearly free of the essential oils needed for normal development of children’s brains—especially before they are born but significantly thereafter as well. Even the AMA is now lobbying for these essential oils to be added to infant formula. Much of the susceptibility to learning disabilities, cases of hyperactivity, attention deficit and aggressive behavior noted, increasingly, in our children can now be traced directly to these deficiencies. Not quite "nature's perfect food"!
An interesting study was done about 20 years ago with women complaining of cellulite. In more than 75% of cases, just stopping any form of dairy product resulted in relief of the cellulite within 6-12 months. Cow’s milk creates cows? This may be more related to the hormones in milk than the milk itself. Try getting one without the other!
Add all this to the fact that about 90% of children with chronic and recuring ear infections have them because of a hypersensitivity to caseine. Instead of recurrent trips to the doctor to get a prescription for antibiotics (which have been proven, over and over again in the medical literature to do absolutely no good) the problem would cease to exist within a month of totally eliminating dairy from the child's diet. Of course, THEN, what would the "poor" doctor do for an income??
Up to now, I have just listed some of the problems with “natural” cow’s milk. From here on I will mention a few of the problems we humans have added to this “food”.
We have all heard that cow’s milk is a serious source of trace antibiotics which is one of the major causes of the antibiotic resistant bacteria we are now having to come face to face with in this generation--check the ground water for antibiotics! The recent use of growth hormone (GH) has only served to increase this antibiotic content since GH increases the susceptibility of the cow’s udder to infection. The dairy industry has such a powerful lobby that it is the only food that is not required to list on the label what is in it. They have been able to keep off the label whether this dairy product has GH in it or not. Consumers have to rely on those producers of organic milk to put on the labels that this product does not have GH.
While talking about GH, I should mention that it is well known, in the world’s medical literature, that GH causes breast cancer and colon cancer.
It is a scandal of major proportions that it will be 20-30 years before the consequences, of this uncontrolled experiment on 250 million people, will force its removal from the market place. Of course, we have seen this with estrogens and other steroids added to livestock feed which, in spite of proof of its danger, is still being done—they just add a side-chain to the illegal molecule & sell it under a different name till the system catches up with it, then they do it again. The government is not going to protect us. We have to do it ourselves through knowledge.
Homogenization of milk was done only for convenience: so the cream would not rise to the top of the bottle. This is accomplished by making the fat globules so small that they cannot any longer clump together & float. However, now they are so small that they can leak through the gut lining into the blood stream undigested. These fats are called “fatty acids” because they are acid. When they are free inside the arteries, they cause small burns each time they brush against the wall. It has been known for many years that small injuries like this are the most common things that begin the healing process known as atherosclerosis (the main cause of heart disease and strokes). Is it a coincidence that the increasing incidence of atherosclerosis directly parallels the introduction of homogenized milk into our culture? It seems to me that this is a huge price to pay for a simple convenience.
How about ultra pasteurized milk? As you know, milk is now available that does not have to be refrigerated. Why is that? It seems that the extremely high temperatures needed to ultra pasteurize milk changes the structure of the milk in such a way that no self-respecting bacteria or fungus can live on it. I wonder what it does to us higher forms of life?
We can protect ourselves by deciding to learn what is going on. Your health food store has many publications about this problem. Remember, this article is listing but a few of the problems with cow’s milk. As Casey Stengle used to say: “You can look it up!”
Walt
Good luck,
Donna
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Kathy,
Listen to Donna.
The supposed heath benefits of cow's milk are totally a product of the dairy industry propaganda. Take it from a physician who was raised on a large commercial dairy farm.
There is nothing in cow's milk that cannot be obtained better from other, healthier sources.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: milk allergy in child (Archive in milk.) posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on August 09, 2004 at 17:03:31:
Walt,
Soy is no panacea, starting with the sugar that is added to soy milk to make it palatable. To paraphrase,
"The supposed heath benefits of soy milk is totally a product of the soy industry propaganda."
Lincoln
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Hi Kathy,
Your son has an immune system that is smarter than most
doctors.. Be glad that cow's milk was not the first thing you tried... Juvenile type 1 diabetes may have its' roots
in cows milk.
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Hello
My son reacted to the cow milk that I consumed when I would bf him. I went on a total dairy elimination diet and he got better.. he went to rice milk.. after a year. Your son's allergy could very well be a product of YOUR health problems.
Cow milk is made for COWS.. I had a difficult time believe that it was harmful to humans.. I love dairy and dairy products.
Also.. that was a pretty severe allergic reaction, you may want to inquire about an epi-pen just to be safe'
In good health
Rose
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Hi Kathy,
I don't know much about children, but I am allergic to both dairy and soy. I drink rice milk and nut milk. I make my own nut milk fresh with 1/2 cup of chopped almonds (they are very hard on a blender, so I buy them prechopped) to 4 cups of water. And then I strain the milk.
Cashew milk is also nice and doesn't need straining. I also make sesame seed milk and someone else posted once about macadamia nut milk.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Jan
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
It took me a while to figure out that my daughters colic
was a milk allergy.....I would have saved both of us lots
of grief had I taken her and her mother off it immediately.
Consider yourself lucky to have had this much good advice...
our Doc at the time was an idiot.
In Reply to: Re: milk allergy in child (Archive in milk.) posted by Lincoln [2274.20] on August 09, 2004 at 17:22:56:
Thanks, Lincoln.
I hope you did not think that I had ever said that it was.
Walt
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
pacific brand makes a hazelnut milk sweetened with rice syrup. Nut milk is easy to make yourself- buzz 1 cup nuts with 4 cups water in blender. Strain, sweeten to taste. Add liquid vitamins if desired.
JapANESE VERSION OF A MILK SUB IS TO SIMMER 1 PART BROWN RICE TO 20 PARTS WATER FOR 3 HOURS. iT'S CALLED CONJI. tHE SOFT COOKED RICE IS FED TO SICK OR ELDERLY.,the conji liquid is used as a milk sub for babies.
Lots of good non-dairy products in the health food store for when the kid is on solid food- van's toaster waffles makes two non-dairy varieties. Sunspire and chatfield make non-dairy chocolate chips. Rice dream makes non- dairy ice cream.
Please be aware that allergies are sometimes vaccine reactions. I believe there's one vaccine they now give newborns before they leave the hospital. If this allergy is the result of a vaccine (which mess with the immune system) the kid is a poor candidate for future vaccines and can have more severe reactions. Please research this. Place to start is www.909shot.com good books about dangers of vaccines include Neil Z Miller's Vaccines: are they really safe and effective and Harris and Coulter's book- first edition was called DPT: A shot in the dark. Sunse3quent editions were just called A Shot in the Dark.
My kids all breastfed and then went on to soymilk, which I don't see as a problem, but lots of other subs available for milk, and most species don't drink milk past weaning, so milk is more convention than necessity.
In Reply to: milk allergy in child posted by Kathy [485.23] on August 09, 2004 at 14:32:27:
Better safe then Sorry; I love Walt's article here and he always has so much information on hand to share and data that many never do find nor want to look for; I remember loads and loads of info on every health subject at his finger tips when he had his office in Lexington, he is very informative and open minded, listen to him;
Now just one question, have you tried or attempted to try him on raw goat milk? I would be curious to what would happen, felt that maybe a few months like 4 you might try it.
I had a baby in Africa that i treated just like what you discribed and we put him on soy as soon as i arrived off of the plane [they said he was die-ing], i found he could not breath hardly at all and he was suffering from a diary allergy; Well the soy was the thing to put him on and we kept him on this until he was 3 month old and then had the guidence to get him on raw Goat milk and they later bought a goat even; Well he did fantastic on it; If the soy is working for him now that is good and later you might want to try something else; Rice milk and Nut milks are good, but one had to watch the amount of sweetener in the rice and can perhaps over do grain product if over done and the soy, one can build and allergy to later [hopefully this will not happen] Make sure that the soy is organic] Nut milk is a bit heavy to have very much of it, but mixed with water would be better i would think; [perhaps others might have thoughts on this] With a baby you will probably see the results as you go along- great that you care to look into all these things;
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