Jane,

I posted to the list a few days ago and mentioned how I found that dairy
products really affected my personality.

Before I started avoiding dairy products (when I was 20ish) dairy was
probably my favourite food and I would eat it breakfast, lunch and
dinner. I didn't go around weepy all day long and not until my late
teens did anyone think I may have a problem with depression.  I think I
was regarded as pretty normal - friends at school, did well at school,
had a part time job etc but there was definitely something wrong when I
would ring my mum four or five mornings a week in tears because I had to
do the shopping or something and couldn't cope.

Without dairy I don't experience that at all (apart from the odd day
that most people would experience).  Anyway, I just wanted to share my
experience as in some ways it seems similar to your son's.  For some
strange reason it seems we can still function on a fairly normal basis
even eating dairy all day but there is definitely something there that
is not right that hopefully a (relatively) simple thing as giving up
dairy can make a big difference to.

Hope this helps in some small way,

T

> My son (10) has always had some dairy and has also always been an
> emotional
> child.  He would eat some form of milk products almost all day long as
> in the
> typical American diet.  But don't get me wrong - he would not go
> around weepy
> all day long.  He does not suffer from depression.  He can seem very
> "happy go
> lucky" so to speak
>
> I have milk allergies so I'm going to begin
> there.  Why I waited so long I don't know.  It is easier to say there
> is an
> allergy when you see an immediate response as in those with
> life-threatening
> reactions, but I'm beginning to believe there is a whole range of
> reactions.
>