It sounds like they both are allergic to milk. Allergies can exhibit
themselves in different ways. I have two sons who have allergies to milk
among other things. One breaks out in rashes/eczema. The other has an
asthmatic reaction, with much less skin involvement.

Skin tests at 1 year of age are probably not going to be very reliable. You
will need to use some trial and error, maybe even an elimination diet to
pinpoint food allergies. As the kids get older, their immune systems will
mature. At that point allergy testing and shots for desensitization are
likely to be viable alternatives.


At 10:13 AM 4/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>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?
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