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If you had to cut dairy and/or soy foods out of your diet when breastfeeding for your baby, did you know you may very well be able to slowly add them back? For intolerances or non-severe allergies, a milk ladder may be appropriate for the reintroduction of dairy foods for babies and their breastfeeding mothers.

In this episode, Katie talks to Meg Mason, mom of Camila who has numerous food allergies and a cow’s milk protein intolerance. Meg recently completed a milk ladder to reintroduce her daughter to milk protein as part of baby-led weaning. She shares the ups and downs of this approach plus new milk ladder appropriate recipes she created without the added sugar that are appropriate for baby-led weaning.

Please note the information in this podcast episode is not intended to replace that of your primary care practitioner. The milk ladder should only be followed by infants and children who have a mild to moderate cow’s milk allergy known as non-IgE mediated milk allergy (or a cow’s milk protein intolerance). It is not appropriate for infants or children with a milk allergy that results in severe or immediate-type allergic responses known as IgE mediated milk allergies.

SUMMARY of episode

In this episode, guest Meg Mason talked to Katie about:

• Her daughter experiencing blood and mucous in her stool at 7 weeks and Meg’s course to remove soy and dairy from breastfeeding diet and how that helped

• Introducing solid foods to Camila using baby-led weaning plus their eventual diagnosis of a number of food allergies and cow’s milk protein intolerance

• Their reintroduction of dairy foods using the milk ladder and how that has helped alleviate Camila’s symptoms even though mom can now not tolerate dairy.

LINKS from episode

• Meg Mason on Instagram @lifeinamason_jar and her family blog that includes some highlights of food allergy discovery

• Connect with Meg Mason via email meg@lifeinamasonjar.com or click here

• View the updated version of the dairy ladder written by Carina Venter from episodes 124 / Using an Egg Ladder for Babies with Egg Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD and episode 84 / Why You DON'T Need to Wait 3-5 Days Between New Foods with Carina Venter, PhD, RD

• Meg created a free download for you with recipes she made that work for the dairy ladder but that don’t have added sugar

TRANSCRIPT of episode

RESEARCH resources from episode

• Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust “Using the milk ladder to reintroduce milk and dairy” (see references at the end of this resource)

• Home-based Cow’s MIlk Reintroduction Using a Milk Ladder in Children Less than 3 Years Old With IgE-mediated Cow’s Milk Allergy from Clin Exp Allergy. 2019 Jun;49(6):911-920.

• Better recognition, diagnosis and management of non-IgE-mediated cow’s milk allergy in infancy: iMAP-an international interpretation of the MAP (Milk Allergy in Primary Care) guideline from Clinical and Translational Allergy 7, Article number: 26 (2017).

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