Luke has been drinking milk for about 6 months now – and happily eating all dairy along with it. In recent weeks, his dairy consumption has gone up with hot days requiring ice cream..and also we have recently started giving him yogurt with breakfast.
He definitely is a big milk drinker. Maybe it’s because we don’t give him juice anymore..so his options are milk or water and naturally he picks milk most of the time.
Well, this past week, he was complaining of stomach pain off & on. He would casually say, “my tummy hurts” but then he’d never get sick. Then one day during lunch he said his stomach hurt and started crying. I asked him where it hurt and he put his fingers right in his belly button.
Now, it just so happens that Luke has an umbilical hernia (since birth) and naturally my first thought was that he was having an issue with the hernia. Think: twisted bowel, intestinal issue, etc… so I was a bit concerned.
We took him into the Pediatrican and she said all was well with the hernia. She asked a lot about his dairy consumption. She said that often milk allergy will cause pain right in the belly button area.
We also learned that a milk allergy, like a soy allergy, is often “cumulative” meaning that he might tolerate a small amount of dairy but at a certain level, he’ll have pain and/or then get sick to his stomach.
This might explain some random mystery loose stools Luke has from time to time.
So, she suggested that Luke still has issues with dairy, although they don’t seem to be nearly as severe as they once were when he was a baby.
We have backed way off of milk and I see a huge improvement already. The improvement that is most noticable is in his behavior. He seems just much happier with no tantrums/melt downs over the last few days. He hasn’t said his belly hurts so we are back to a happy Lukey.
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