My one serious experience was when I was holding my year old son in my arms while measuring out powdered milk. I know he did not touch it, but started sneezing uncontrollably, his nose and eyes running, and his nasal passages were blocked, though he could still breathe through his mouth. He didn't get any hives, though, which is what he gets from contact. We are very carefull to keep dairy products away from Dallin, but sometimes it is diffucult as he is the youngest of 5 children and my other ones are still young (9, 7, 5, and 3) So drops of milk, or shreds of cheese, or I don't even know what all, may be on the floor at any time. I sweep every night, but I can't keep it totally clean all the time! I am careful to wash his high chair tray with a different cloth than I am cleaning up cereal and peanut butter (another allergen for him), etc. with because when I didn't discriminate, he would break out after sitting in his high chair eating an innocent food. I also don't use the community towel on him to dry hom off after washing off after meals. Who knows What is on those!Sometimes he will have a mysterious rash and I don't know what he got it from. I can only guess it's because we Don't have a dairy free house. I don't know how to retrain my other four children (or myself!) so we just try to keep it away from Dallin. I have taken him to Mc Donalds, but when he was too young to play on anything, and he had no problems. We go to parks all the time, and I can't say he's ever had a problem with those either, but I guess he could have a little rash, nothing serious, and I just didn't connect it to the playground Does your son have any other allergies? Maybe there was something in the air, not necessarily milk, that affected him. Who knows! I have found my son's allergies to be full of mysteries, and it is a great exploring and learning experience for me to learn to live with it. I guess I didn't help much, just rambling Laurie ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.