I am wondering if anyone has dealt with anything similair to this?
Since my little boy was about 13 months I started having problems with screaming...especially at night. He had always been very busy,but he became more hyperactive,unable to focus,whiny. Along with that He started catching stomach bugs that would take him up to 3 1/2 weeks to get over...vommiting. We started seeing Doctors and GI specialist with no luck. I assumed the behavoir part was just a dicipline issue..untill I decided to take all dairy out of His diet. Once I did this within a month he was calming down,focusing better,less whiny,and so on. He is still a busy boy,but it is different. I reintroduced dairy after 3 months just to make sure. I gave him 6 ounces of organic whole milk. He was up atleast 10 times that night screaming and very cranky the next day as well. Along with no dairy Iam giving him fish oils,(made a huge difference in behavoir), vitamins,a powder mix of dehydrated friuts and vegtables,and glyco nutrients(ambrotose through mannatech.) He has had a good few months,but every now and then will revert back to his old behavoir. Wondering if there is another food sensitivity?
Iam aware that 2 year olds can just be whiny,but he acts like two different children when this happens. We try to be consistent with dicipline and teaching him.
By the way the doctors say he has no food allergies according to blood test. But I have observed him scream all night after drinking milk.
What do you think?
C.
Thank You all for your responses. It is good to know other moms have dealt with similair things. Thank you all.
Hi C.,
My sister's second child had major milk allergies-it affected his behavior and skin.We always had to read labels on the pkgs of everything. He was not allowed to have any milk product of any kind. It's amazing how many things that we eat has a milk product of some sort!!
My nephew is now 11yrs old and has outgrown his milk allergies. Go with what you feel that will help your child and goodluck!!
BB
My daughter is 13 months old, and still doesn't sleep all night due to her allergies. She has constant phlegmy cough, snotty nose, and fluid in her ears. My husband who is a vegitarian read on the PETA web site that milk is the number one cause of allergies among children. Seeing as how our pediatrican had no new suggestions, except for more antibiotics, we decided to take matters into our own hands and cut dairy out completely. Now she only drinks Silk, eats veggie cheese slices and soy yogurt. It has made a huge difference. The cough is all but gone, she never messes with her ears anymore, the nose still runs but hopefully with time that too will subside. I commend you for having the insight to take your child off of such a popular (though false) source of calcium. The dairy industry is a huge propoganda gimmic. Cow's milk was made for baby cows, not baby humans, it is nothing but fat, and the small amounts of calcium and vitamin D can be easily replaced from soy produts. I hope that anyone whose child is suffering from lactose related allergies reads this and tries an alternative for their children. It is our job as parents to look out for our child's best interests and giving them stomach aches, ear infections, and making them vomit is not in their best intersets.
Yes, we had a similar situation with our son, who just turned three. We didn't realize it was the milk until we took him off of it, and he started sleeping through the night. Before we tried removing milk, he woke up several times a night and only milk would put him back to sleep. Once we switched to soy, then later almond and potato milk, his sleep improved greatly (and so did ours!).
We took him off of milk because we were looking at possible (now confirmed) autism and going casein (milk protein) and gluten (wheat, barley, oat protein) free is a dietary intervention for kids who suffer from stomach distress or behavior that might be correlated with diet--and these are often common side issues for autistic kids. I don't know if your son is showing any developmental delays, but ours was--only a handful of words at 29 months, not putting two words together, etc. I'm not by any means suggesting your guy might be autistic, but you might want to look into what moms are doing with the Casein Free/Gluten Free diet to see if the gluten might be another issue for you. Or maybe, you're just getting some extra behavioral issues off and on due to hidden sources of dairy that he may have inadvertently eaten. French fries from many fast food restaurants have milk products in their coatings, for example!
If you want to read more about the gluten free/casein free diet, here's a great website (it's from a website for autistic parents, but don't let that put you off--it has great info).
http://www.tacanow.com/dietinfo.htm
Let me know if you have any other questions about going dairy free that I can help with. It's a bit of a pain sometimes--but so worth it when it helps my little guy so much!
My son is also a false neg on the blood test, but is clearly intolerant to casein, a milk protein. He gets such a severe diaper rash that it creates burns that take weeks to heal if he eats anything with more than a trace of milk in it. It's a hard road to avoid it all, but much harder to deal with the rash. I haven't heard of disciplinary behavior type issues though...hmmmm...and I know several other milk "allergic" kids. Persist despite drs telling you you're imagining it. We go to Cook's GI downtown for our issues which until recently included reflux and lots of meds.
R.
We have had similar experiences yet not to the extreme you have experienced. We cut out red dye and vanillan. I discovered through research on the internet that the two are related. You really have to read the ingredient lists to catch things with these items. Vanillan is just an artificial vanilla. It's worth trying. This helped with not only my son's hyperness but his exzema as well.
S.
C.,
Hi. My daughter has bad behavior responses when she eats sugar. Her teacher thinks she has ADHD but she acts fine when she's not eating sugar.
Food allergies can definitely affect behavior. Mom's will tell you that, but unfortunately doctors don't get it yet.
Keep us posted. And by the way, my husband graduated from SWBTS. Is that where your husband goes?
A. S.
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Hi I have had similar problems as well. My son is 20 months old. I am milk sensitive as well. I nursed my son so he would have these crying fits as a baby and we could do nothing except rock him back and forth. Since I was familaer with lactose intolerance signs I stopped eating anything with milk in it. His symptoms went away immed. I talked to my doc about it and he said there is really no test except trial and error that can prove he has a milk allergy or is lactose int.(because of age.. they say the test are not accurate) So of and on I would eat something with milk in it and it would start up again. Then when he started eating solids I would notice the symptoms reappear... thinking that I was being careful that what he had eating was milk free. I would check the ingredients and sure enough there was milk in it. There are allot of words that can be milk based and on the ingredients are named something else... whey is the worst for lactose intolerance. There is a website that you can go to and print a list of ingredients to look for it is pocket size list and very handy. The website is www.kidshealth.org and then look up milk allergy. My doc still has not said he has a milk allergy and we have not done any test.... I just know that he is not up all night with stomach cramps and fussy during the day when he does not have milk products. It could be that the kids with these symptoms are lactose intol. and that is why they dont have the severe symptoms that they might have if they were allergic to milk. I sympathize with you and honestly it is a relief to here someone else that thinks the same way as I do because allot of people think I am making it up. I hope some of this helps. Please let me know how it is going~
