That girl there, Violette, is mildly allergic to milk. She doesn’t go into shock and her throat doesn’t close. In fact, the only real thing we notice is that she behaves quite differently after having milk products than when she doesn’t. She misbehaves a lot more. She gets a bit more hyper and harder to calm down. She just isn’t exactly the same kid.
So now, she’s in first grade. She makes lots more decisions on lunch. There’s a lunch at her school called the “fun lunch,” which is milk, yogurt, cheese, and a vegetable of some kind (usually carrots). It’s like Satan on a tray for her. Of course, this is her favorite.
I’m not sure if I should raise the alarm and ask school to keep her away from milk, which is tricky for the school, and a bit of a flag to other kids that she’s different. It’s not like she’ll die from drinking it. It’s just that she acts better without it.
What would you do?
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I say, talk to Violette and help her make the right decisions. Don’t leave it up to the school to police her eating habits.
Coincidentally, my first post on Dad-o-Matic also concerns food allergies at school, and the two different approaches my childrens’ schools have taken.
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I say, talk to Violette and help her make the right decisions. Don’t leave it up to the school to police her eating habits.
Coincidentally, my first post on Dad-o-Matic also concerns food allergies at school, and the two different approaches my childrens’ schools have taken.
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This seems very similar to your post on nuts – if you truly believe that these kids are ready to start managing their own intake, then it’s time to have Violette learn how different foods make her feel and make decisions accordingly.
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This seems very similar to your post on nuts – if you truly believe that these kids are ready to start managing their own intake, then it’s time to have Violette learn how different foods make her feel and make decisions accordingly.
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Both my girls have a slight intolerance to milk. I think they get it from my wife, who does her best to avoid anything with milk in it. My elder daughter, when she was little, loved stuff with milk in it, and we had a devil of a time trying to keep milk away from her. I’m not sure it did any good.
Now that my girls are 9 and 12, we let them make their own choices. They seem to be none the worse for eating a little cheese, yogurt, or chocolate milk once in a while. (Or ice cream.) But they prefer to drink rice milk, either because cow’s milk makes them sick or because they’re just used to rice milk. And most of the food we have in the house is milk-free anyhow.
-TimK
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Both my girls have a slight intolerance to milk. I think they get it from my wife, who does her best to avoid anything with milk in it. My elder daughter, when she was little, loved stuff with milk in it, and we had a devil of a time trying to keep milk away from her. I’m not sure it did any good.
Now that my girls are 9 and 12, we let them make their own choices. They seem to be none the worse for eating a little cheese, yogurt, or chocolate milk once in a while. (Or ice cream.) But they prefer to drink rice milk, either because cow’s milk makes them sick or because they’re just used to rice milk. And most of the food we have in the house is milk-free anyhow.
-TimK