can people share about outgrowing milk allergy?

Hello, My daughter was allergic to eggs, milk, and peanuts. Now at 14, only the peanut allergy persists. When she was very young, before she was tested, we would notice little hives after kissing her skin, even after just drinking coffee with milk. I am thinking she was around 7 or so when she could tolerate the milk and eggs, in small amounts. Now she LOVES ice cream, and even in the last year or 2, started having milk on her cereal. (up til then she had coffee rich). She also eats yogurt a couple of times a week. Best of luck! Oh, she also had excema when she was younger, mostly behind the knees, but that also has gone away.

My son had his first reaction to milk when he tried it at the age of 1. He had hives and redness all over his face. At 2 we tried egg and ended up with a slight rash. We followed the same policy for the eggs and milk as peanut avoidance. We had a few episodes of hives or redness that we tracked down to food-others we never figured out. By the age of 4 we suspected he had outgrown the milk allergy and not knowing any better at the time placed some on his skin, then let him try it. It was fine (we were lucky). Shortly thereafter he had a contact exposure to peanut which sent us running to allergists and set us on the path of much more information. At the age of 6 he still skin tested positive for egg (4+) but his cap rast numbers were low. We had him challenged at Connecticut Children's Hospital for the egg and he passed without incident.
I like to think there is always hope for any allergy to be "outgrown". We don't raise our sons hopes about the PA but we did talk about the possibility of the others being outgrown.

Cayley outgrew her milk allergy at 2 1/2 years of age.

Her first exposure was to milk formula at 7 weeks - head to toe hives; choking; unconscious.

Now, when she was skin-tested at age 3, milk still showed up as a mild allergy (a 1 out of 4), but she tolerated it by this point with no trouble. I should point out that my doctor (not allergist) recommended that I challenge her with milk every 3 months, in his office, starting at age 12 months. Every time she got hives around the mouth from 1/2 a tsp., until age 2 1/2. Knowing what I know now about what COULD have happened, I would not recommend this. She never experienced anaphylaxis again after the 1st episode at 7 weeks.

Carolyn

My daughter was peanut, tree nut, egg, milk, strawberry and citric acid allergic. We are now down to peanut, tree nuts, egg and strawberry. (and added Penicilin)
We tried citric acid again last spring just before her 11th birthday and she was OK. This was an exema reaction and her urine would burn her bottom as a baby and young child.
The milk we tried again last December and she has been OK. (after a rast test was OK) Milk was a behaviour trigger, exema problem and severe runny and stuffy nose. (She had tubes in her ears twice as a baby) She does not drink glasses of milk but she can tolerate things with milk in them and cheese, ice cream etc. When she has a cold we cut back on her dairy intake.
The eggs still give her hives. (Tried a small amount in baking.)
Good luck.

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Karalot

I think there is a big difference in types of milk allergies. Many infants are allergic to milk but this is something they supposedly start to outgrow around their 1st birthday (not sure why). Then there are the IgE-mediated milk allergies which are (I think) more severe and harder to outgrow. Jake (12 months old) is allergic to milk (not Ige-mediated) and his allergist said we might try milk on him around 15-18 months of age. (Waiting this long because of other, IgE-mediated, allergies to peanuts, eggs, & soy). Do you know which type of milk allergy you're dealing with?

I think it is an IgE reaction. He scored
a 32 on the cap rast test for milk at 11.5
months. He still gets hives immediately on contact with milk and dairy products.

Thank you all for replying so far to my
questions (even though I posted on the
manufacturings board instead of the main
discussion board.

We found out Kevin was allergic to milk when he was 4 months old. I was changing his diaper at a Toys R Us (eewww, gross) and when I opened it, it was filled with blood (eewww, grosser). His pediatrician figured it out, I cut milk out from my diet (I was breastfeeding), and everything returned to normal. Until one day, when I just had to have a cup of tea with just a wee bit of milk in it, and the bloody diapers started again. The MD didn't think this was a case of a life-threatening allergy, so when Kevin was about 2 it was suggested that we try giving him a small amount of dairy. Within 3 minutes it looked like someone slapped him in the face, and then he developed the worst eczema I've ever seen (and in this family, I've seen PLENTY!). Anyway, he finally outgrew it shortly before his 5th birthday, although by the time he was about 4 he was able to have it baked at high temperatures, ie, in cake, pizza, mac 'n cheese, etc.

Good luck!

Amy