Milk

Back over the winter my little got a rash. He was 10 months old. the rash continued for about a month. I never thought of his milk intake until I moved him away from my mother in law. My thoughts were he had sensitive skin, or maybe a yeast infection (both issues I had with his brother)

But soon after cutting out milk and milk based formula (both he had yet to have problems with his entire life) and pure milk, his bottom healed. So then I reintroduced one cup of cows milk- and not even 24 hours later... it was back!

Now I want to take a side note I went to see a local pediatrician where I live now and he was all "its basically impossible for a kid to develop a allergy that fast" and then I called my pedi from my old home- a pedi that I trust unconditionally- and the PA said that "its rare, but it can happen" I just want to throw this out there that I guess there are some pediatricians who think that you can consume breast milk with milk proteins and then drink milk based formula and can never develop a milk allergy.

That being said that as a child I also had a milk allergy- it went away my mid teens. I'd get super sick drinking milk and thus would vomit or have a stomach ache. I drank goats milk as a kid (my mom had goats so it was an easy supply) and never had a problem. We gave my little goats milk and we have the same rash.


So. I was couponing to try and save money- because you know.. I guess now I have time for that. So now I have to reevaluate our money saving tasks. The thing that gets me beyond the couponing is the fact that I really want to get my kids away from the chemicals we use. Its like my ultimate goal. So I've been looking into ways to cut costs that are a bit more "natural" and Little friendly.

So far we have started making our own baking mixes. You would not believe how much stuff has milk in it. So we will be making our own "cream of" whatever soups, muffin mix, pancake mix, etc. Anything we can substitute cow milk for almond milk we will. If we cant than we just wont have it in the house- to reduce confusion.

My husband has had a bit of mourning for the Littles milk allergy, but I think he will be ok.