>My son is allergic to milk/egg white protein.  He started showing a
>reaction to milk within 12 hours of birth.  He has two younger sisters,
>both were on soy formula and not exposed to milk til after 1 year of
>age.  The oldest shows no signs of food allergies.  The youngest turned
>1 on Jan 1, and we started her on whole milk.  She kept it down, but
>after two weeks she started getting dry skin/eczema on her lower legs,
>and it started working its way up her body.  We had skin tests done,
>but they showed no allergies.  We took her off the milk and after two
>weeks her skin cleared up.  The next time we tried milk, she kept it
>down but brought it back up after half an hour. With my son the reaction
>to milk is immediate, I'm not familiar with a delayed reaction. Does
>this sound like an allergy developing? Has anybody experienced this?

Carmen,

My daughter had eczema (open wounds and all) for 4 years.  I was told she
would always live with it and all we could do is give her cortisone and
Lac-Hydrin.  As usual, the doctors were wrong.  We took her off wheat and
milk and the eczema went away.  When we put her on flax oil (internally, not
externally), her excessively dry skin became soft and smooth.  We do violate
the dry skin of taboos--my daughter loves to bathe and we don't use any
creams either--and her skin stays supple.  What they fail to understand is
that her problem was caused by internal factors, not external.

On the allergy front, Pamela has immediate allergies to peanuts (precursor
signs to anaphylaxis).  She does not tolerate large amounts of apples and
it's a delayed reaction (night sweats, insomnia, nausea, etc).  She is
autistic and some autistic children do extremely well off gluten (wheat and
friends) and casein (milk), not really due to allergies.  However, based on
the improvement of her skin, I suspect she also delayed allergies too.

Tammy G.

"A parent's love perceives no limitations."