Cows milk Allergy

[ukbill]

I wonder if a lot of the "lactose" intolerance seen in some children is actually an allergy or reaction to Cows milk or just anything to do with Cows?

As a family we used to milk goats and sell the milk mostly to customers recommended to us by Doctors.

Children with eczema were our main customers. We found this to be (by long years trying different things) to be an allergy to anything Cow related.

Just giving Goats milk provided some relief but a life long "cure" was achieved if the child was kept off ALL cow related foods products (inc processed fats and Protein) for a period of 3 months.. then they could go back onto milk, cheese, chocolate, beef etc. and there were no reported re-occurrences of the eczema.

With adults and teenagers however it proved impossible to get people of the female gender to give up chocolate for 3 months.. so after childhood we could not "cure" 50% eczema sufferers.

Just a thought as Goats milk is now available in all large food supermarkets in the UK.

It just might work if your child is having difficulties?

[elilly]

My son has a cows. Milk intolerance. We do all goat dairy products with him and he does great. Add this in with celiac and HFI and his diet is a little tricky.

[ukbill]

I can imagine!

I do not know which part of the world you are from but in the UK goats milk products Milk , cheese, yoghurt and butter are readily available in most supermarkets.

Goats meat however is harder to find you have to head into a big city (like Birmingham or Bradford) that has a large immigrant population to get goats meat easily.

Wishing you all seasons greetings.

[elilly]

I am able to find goat milk as well as mozzerella and cheddar cheese without a problem. I can't find a yougurt that doesn't have pectin in it. So, I may have to try making my own.

[ukbill]

Its dead easy to make, but you are likely to have to use a "starter" that is cows milk Yoghurt. so depending on degree of reaction to cows milk you may have to make 2 batches before you can give your child goats milk yoghurt.

If you need the process let me know.