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Hrrmmmm….I’ve been experimenting with Aurora’s excema the last couple days. Our researching had told us that sometimes food allergies can spark excema breakouts…and that there’s some theory on food allergies being the CAUSE of excema. But Aurora has had excema since we brought her home from the hospital…before she was eating anything. So I thought…what if she’s allergic to milk? Chris’s brother has a milk allergy, so that increased the possibility. So, I took Aurora off milk and other dairy products for a couple days. Not giving her dairy goes against my deepest mommy instincts…all that, “drink your milk and get big and strong” hype from childhood I guess. But, her skin is 90% clear today, with the exception of healing scabs where her excema had been bleeding. So…now I have the dilemma of her calcium needs and vitamin D. We have her on children’s vitamins…but I’d like some suggestions of food that have those which arent dairy products. Help? 🙂
Have you tried giving Aurora goat’s milk? My niece, Eden, has terrible, terrible food allergies that set off her excema. Dairy products are off limits except for goat’ milk. Her system doesn’t re-act to that for some reason. I’ll get hold of my sister and see what other things they’ve tried for Eden. Maybe it’ll help Aurora too…
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for the calcium you can try the citrical with D in it . it has 100% of daily D and 63% daily of calcium . i take 1 twice a day , but ask your doc first.
Also her eis a huge list of foods that contain calcium that arent dairy related
http://home.bluegrass.net/~jclark/calcium_foods.htmpurplecat wrote:Not giving her dairy goes against my deepest mommy instincts…all that, “drink your milk and get big and strong” hype from childhood I guess.
“Hype” is the correct word. Milk, other than human milk for babies and infants, really isn’t particularly good for any of us other than in reasonably small quantities. Certainly it’s not good in the amounts the Milk Marketing Board would have you consume. It’s almost funny how the societies that have the highest incidence of osteoporosis are the ones that consume the most milk.
This is an interesting article on the subject, best read in conjunction with the site’s Summary. But a simple Internet search will find you all kinds of information on the subject of “Don’t Drink Your Milk” that goes against everything the MMB would have you believe.
//Required disclosure: I am allergic to milk protein, as is my daughter, so I am not an unbiased witness. My daughter’s symptoms of accidental milk ingestion include mental distress, inability to concentrate, inability to make decisions and so on. Before we figured out the problem, the school was wanting to put her on Ritalin. She also came out in skin rashes, but that could have been her allergy to gluten, that she inherited from her mom. My reaction to milk proteins is mood swings and a compromised immune system (after giving up milk I very quickly recovered from a chronic spinal injury that had plagued me for the previous 21 years). When I think of all those bottles of milk they fed me in school… Argh!//
wow..now that’s some educational material…thank you, and now it’s made me wonder what the heck she’ll drink when she does go to school…geez…do they have a milk alternative?? juice or something? hrrm.
purplecat wrote:wow..now that’s some educational material…thank you, and now it’s made me wonder what the heck she’ll drink when she does go to school…geez…do they have a milk alternative?? juice or something? hrrm.
My schools always had juice that you could get in addition to milk, though the juice cartons always seemed smaller.
At my daughter’s school, you buy the milk. She gets enough at home, so we don’t. I’m thinking no school would force kids to drink milk, especially if you send a note saying she’s allergic to it.
Yeah, we’re brainwashed about milk a lot. Personally, I don’t like the taste of actual milk. I do eat some yogurt and a bit of cheese, but not too much, otherwise, the body doesn’t like it. I suspect it’s the same to for a lot of people. Too much dairy is also associated with constipation, particularly cheese…
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmI’m not even all that fond of milk either, I’m more partial to cheese. Really the only time I have milk is when I have cereal and I don’t use much.
My friend is a vegan, and during my brief stint at trying it out I completely lost my taste for milk. I use rice milk on my cereal now, and love it.
I’m watching her to see if her skin remains clear, but I’m really relieved just to see her not uncomfortable for a bit. 🙂 thank you for all the suggestions, we’ll probably do alot of iced tea this summer. 😀
purplecat wrote:I’m watching her to see if her skin remains clear, but I’m really relieved just to see her not uncomfortable for a bit. 🙂 thank you for all the suggestions, we’ll probably do alot of iced tea this summer. 😀
lipton has a great iced tea its called ICE BREW. It looks just like brewed tea bags but it will brew in cold water , it tastes really good ( not like that powder crap my mother used to buy)I put 3 bags to a gallon and a cup of sugar . If you have ever had McDonalds Sweet Tea it tastes exactly the same
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