In a message dated 7/25/99 11:04:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< I am interested in how many people's children react to food allergies in
 behavioral ways.  >>

I have always kept my youngest daughter off dairy - she reacted to it through
my breastmilk by being very colicky, screaming constantly, always very fussy,
problems sleeping.  At 6weeks I removed all dairy from my diet and she was
like a new baby.  She never received formula, and I have never given her
milk, cheese or any other dairy product.

One time my grandmother gave her a popsicle, not knowing it had milk in it.
She was in the worst mood for over a week.  She had constant temper tantrums,
was aggressive and just generally miserable and difficult to deal with (she's
three and a half).  Also, her eye lids were very swollen and puffy for about
a week and a half.  Needless to say, we are VERY careful about what goes into
her mouth - I have a dairy free house, so it is only eating out or at other's
houses that we have to watch it.

Hope this helps.

Kim Sherwood in upstate New York.