One sugar, no milk

[ailbhe]

I cut dairy out of my diet when it was obvious that it wasn't agreeing with Linnea, when she was about 2 weeks old. Gradually, I noticed that all my old IBS symptoms had gone away since then, too. So I kept it out of my diet. But recently my in-laws have been nagging me to give Linnea dairy, so this weekend we started. She and I both had yoghurt. She tasted some, I ate two small portions, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.

And today I am horribly sick. Thank heavens for solid plastic waste paper bins. It's after 4:30 pm and I am only just beignning to think I could risk eating anything at all.

No more milk for me, until I've been tested for intolerances and worked out what is wrong.

Comments

[nicolap.livejournal.com]

Poor you, but at least now it reinforces what you knew.

In laws. Nagging. Why do they do that? There's nothing so special about dairy products that you and Linnea can't obtain from other foods, so long as you're careful.

My youngest daughter used to be violently sick (projectile vomiting across the room) with dairy products. She can now tolerate small amounts occurring in other foods, but I still avoid giving her anything milk related.

I never thought at the time about whether my diet when breastfeeding affected her. Possibly, as she always was sick a great deal, but then I eat very few dairy products (and no, my bones haven't crumbled, nor my teeth fallen out).

Hope you're feeling better soon.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

I am thinking about sesame seeds.

(I like them ground up, I find them that way in jars with 'tahini' or 'tehina' or something like that on the label. I suppose you could call it sesame butter. mixed with water and lemon juice (my mum's recipe says 50% tahini, 25% lemon juice, 25% water) and with lots of garlic, salt to taste, and chopped parsley. that goes nicely as a dip, or spread on bread, or a sauce)

[firecat]

Even if your body could come to tolerate dairy, the intestinal flora that dealt with it will need to be built up again first.

Sounds like Linnea did OK with it, though?

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

If 120 million Japanese and 1 billion Chinese can survive without dairy products, I'm sure the odd Westerner can too!

[k425.livejournal.com]

While here in the West we're used to having cows and cheese and butter and milk, they're not essential. You don't find dairy products in Chinese restaurants, for instance, because they don't do dairy.

Sorry you've had puking, hope it clears soon. How did Linnea cope with the yoghurt?

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty conclusive to me already.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've lost any tolerance you once had -- I know it only took me a few weeks off dairy (rotation diet) to lose the taste for milk, although I like and can eat other dairy products (cheese, yogurt, etc.).