Please, please can anyone help over food allergy costs.

mascherano

Fen1 wrote: »

If you have been properly medically assessed as suffering from allergies, especially wheat, you may be able to get wheat-free alternatives via the NHS (prescription stuff from the chemist).
I would also be very wary of just substituting goat's for cow's milk - it still contains lactose. I would go completely dairy free for a month, then try a bit of goat's milk and see if there is a reaction. You may be sensitive to cow protein, but not to goat's, rather than lactose itself.

or you may have been diagnosed by a 'nutritionist' rather than a proper medically-trained doctor. Nutritionists make a fortune out of gullible people, and support this vacuous industry with its lifestyle books videos gurus etc. For those who havent been diagnosed by a doctor (medical doctor, not someone who bought their PhD off the internet like Gillian McKeith) go for a second opinion.

Sandeze

Thank you so much for all your helpful comments, please can anyone tell me what Lactose is in? I know it is in cows milk, but is it in cheese, butter, yogurt?
Regards.

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Gemmzie

Sandeze, you're not allowed to post links like that.

Sandeze

Gemmzie,
I didn't realise, in the users CP it says "If you would like to let other visitors to this site know the URL of your own web site, enter it here" if I am not allowed I do apologise.
Regards.

red77

Go on the ( coeliac uk ) website all gluten free food , For a few pounds they will send you a book containing thousands of off the shelf foods you can buy from big and small shopping chains.
Also as someone said earlier get a bread maker .. PANASONIC... the best for gluten free, then go to your doctor he will have a list of gluten free products you can get on prescription mostly tasteless stuff apart from the Juvela gluten free bread mix i order 16 boxes of this on one prescription lasts ages and tastes great. hope this helps.:j

jtolpin

As a POFAK'er (parent of a food allergic kiddo), for 7 years now, I get it.

I'm in the U.S., but I know some UK products (iimported for US here), as well as how to live GF/CF (gluten and casein free)

Email me, I'll give you what I can

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(Hi Gina!)

winnie81

Yep allergy foods are astronomical I have 2 kids and myself with dairy allergys and we can't eat goats milks etc as it does have lactose in

I have made my own food from scratch as it is cheaper but we always have some pre-prepared food in as we don't always have time to cook for hours each day

oldbuffer

Gluten free diets can be found at coeliac.co.uk. If your doctor has diagnosed you as a coeliac than he will be able to prescribe most of your needs via the NHS.
Sorry about my lack of knowledge about Lactose.

full-time-mum

AllergyMom wrote: »

I agree with what a previous posted said. Find products that naturally dont contain your allergens. If you are wheat-free, can you use soft corn tortillas as a wrap for sandwiches. You can get a bunch of those for very little. Or use lettuce for a wrap.

Just make sure you read the ingredients as the only corn tortillas I've found also contain wheat.

If you have found some genuinely w/f wraps, perhaps you could post the brand and where you get them from as I'd love some!

littlesos

Sandeze wrote: »

Thank you so much for all your helpful comments, please can anyone tell me what Lactose is in? I know it is in cows milk, but is it in cheese, butter, yogurt?
Regards.

Lactose is a milk protein, it is in EVERYTHING that contains milk, so all cheese/yoghurt/butter/spreads/mayonnaise/cream/ice cream for definate (apart from PURE spreads which are dairy free). You have to check the labels on everything, it's in virtually all pates I've seen, shop bought cakes/biscuits/breads you need to be wary of. It's in chocolate, hot chocolate, some flavours of crisps the list goes on and on.

It might be that you have a problem with cows milk protein, which is different to Lactose. Goats milk has lactose, but the protein structure is different and is more easily digestable than cows milk protein. If these were proper medical tests and you have an allergy then they should have been specific.

My daughter is lactose/soya/egg intolerant, as far as I'm aware there are no specific tests for intolerances, it's a matter of excluding things from your diet and seeing if the systems disappear. I'm not sure what tests you could have had to tell you of these intolerances, but the fact that you have been told you are lactose intolerant, and then told to substitute goats milk makes me think that they were not medical tests.