Does anybody have any experience with Dairy allergies?

I am going off of all dairy products and I am wondering if anybody here has had any experiences about dairy allergies.

What would you like to know?

Cheers

since I don't like milk, to me, it was a non issue. I just went to a holistic nutrionist and she has taken me off of all dairy.

Including cheese, sour cream, butter, anything with dairy in it. She says that it is contributing to my sinus issues plus a host of other problems. Do you know anything about this?

I've been told the same thing. I limit my dairy intake as it can make me vomit.

I have also been told that it can give you headaches, so I try to space out when I eat dairy products. I also have heard it can cause ear infections...it appeared to with my daughter. She used to get them all of the time and a friend (Holistic doctor) told us to take her off of dairy. She never had another infection and it's been ten years. She will eat cheese and yoghurt with no problems but milk is an issue.

I never seem to have problems with yoghurt or certain cheeses, but milk and ice cream can be real iffy. I have often wondered if it's the hormones in the milk that bother me rather than the milk itself.

Cheers!

If I can help, ask away.

My sinuses act up. I don't think I have a problem with cheeses.

and my gut has never felt better. I still eat ice cream here and there and half & half in my coffee but hardly any strait milk. I used to drink almost a gallon a week because I thought it was "good for me".

My husband cannot drink milk without dire consequences. It is one of the most common food allergies. Some people who love milk find they can digest it if they get the kind that does something to the lactose-I think the brand is called Lactade. Besides digestive problems, dairy allergies can cause excess mucus formation, I believe. But beware of switching over to soy milk. According to my doc, soy milk can block the digestion of certain vitamins. Also many people have soy allergies.

or dairy is a food that we need to consume? As in who proclaimed dairy to be in our food pyramid? Then on further thought, what mamal drinks milk as an adult and what mamal consumes another mamals milk?

It had made me think about all of the people that have dairy allergies or are lactose intolerant.

I also look at all of the infants that have to be put on soy formula.

and who promoted teaching the food pyramid in schools (in the '80s at least; that's when I taught school). It was the National Dairy Council. Surprise, surprise!

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=130

Yes, some people are allergic to cow's milk. Others can't digest lactose. That feature in particular is due to lack of a gene necessary to do so. That gene arose in Europe, where (cow's) milk drinking began. It likely helped a lot of people avoid famine and round out their nutrition.

Milk is high in many nutrients, may contain chemicals that prevent some kinds of cancer, and besides, it TASTES GREAT! :)

Do we need to look for conspiracies in EVERYTHING?

I'm just saying that in the 1980s when I taught elementary school, ALL of the information my particular school district got on nutrition came from the Dairy Council. And I am an avid milk drinker myself, though I prefer buttermilk to regular milk.

this group thinks milk sucks. I tend to agree with them.

http://www.milksucks.com/index2.asp

"Harvard School of Public Health, on the Consumption of Dairy Products (2005):

“The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong direction. … Three glasses of low-fat milk add more than 300 calories a day. This is a real issue for the millions of Americans who are trying to control their weight. What's more, millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and even small amounts of milk or dairy products give them stomachaches, gas, or other problems. This recommendation ignores the lack of evidence for a link between consumption of dairy products and prevention of osteoporosis. It also ignores the possible increases in risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer associated with dairy products.”

"After looking at 34 published studies in 16 countries, researchers at Yale University found that the countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis—including the United States, Sweden, and Finland—were those in which people consumed the most meat, milk, and other animal foods. This study also showed that African-Americans, who consume, on average, more than 1,000 mg of calcium per day, are nine times more likely to experience hip fractures than are South African blacks, whose daily calcium intake is only about 196 mg. Says McDougall, "On a nation-by-nation basis, people who consume the most calcium have the weakest bones and the highest rates of osteoporosis. ... Only in thoseplaces where calcium and protein are eaten in relatively high quantities does a deficiency of bone calcium exist, due to an excess of animal protein."

Harvard University's landmark Nurses Health Study, which followed 78,000 women over a 12-year period, found that the women who consumed the most calcium from dairy foods broke more bones than those who rarely drank milk. Summarizing this study, the Lunar Osteoporosis Update (November 1997) explained: "This increased risk of hip fracture was associated with dairy calcium. ... If this were any agent other than milk, which has been so aggressively marketed by dairy interests, it undoubtedly would be considered a major "risk factor."

LOL

read further...they cite studies that discount the "benefits" of milk :eyes:

True allergy is generally manifested by anything from hives to severe asthma. Lactose intolerance is lower GI upset and can be severe.

People with the former can't tolerate dairy products, period. People who are lactose intolerant can tolerate cultured dairy products like yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk, and cheese as the culturing process converts the lactose into somethig a little more benign.

Personally, I find a large consumption of milk by adults to be weird, but I'm one of the lactose intolerant folks to the point I think milk is nasty stuff that most people over 8 would do well to avoid. I do confess to a weakness for yogurt, though, and nothing beats sour cream on a latke. I know people who seem to thrive using milk as a major source of daily protein. I just haven't been able to tolerate it since I was six.

If the allergy has been diagnosed by an allergist, then going off dairy products is the reasonable and prudent thing to do. If it's just a suspicion on your part that there is a true allergy, then temporarily eliminating them and then trying a small amount should tell you whether or not you're allergic. If you think you may be lactose intolerant, then you probably already know the answer to that one.

Adults should drink beer or wine, :toast: not milk: check the Christian Bible.

fruit juice or diet soda on breakfast cereal.

I get grossed out when they use milk.

If I could drink beer or wine, I would.