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Help! My son has a dairy intolerance

 I assume that the sugar in milk your son is intolerant to is lactose. It is quite common for young children, especially infants and toddlers, to develop a temporary lactose intolerance after a severe bout of gastro-enteritis. The lining of their gut wall becomes inflamed and fails to make lactase, the enzyme needed to break down the sugars in milk, leading to diarrhoea and sometimes tummy ache. The bowel wall heals on its own over one to three months and the lactose intolerance then disappears.

Non-Caucasian children, for example Chinese races, are more prone to lactose intolerance as they have a genetic tendency to make less lactase enzyme presumed to be as a result of having less milk in their diets. This usually only poses a problem if they move away from their traditional population's diet to one based more on dairy products.

You do not say how your son's lactose intolerance was diagnosed or what led him to be tested. It is an unusual problem in a boy of six years old and Caucasian race. If he had been diagnosed by a paediatrician he would almost certainly have been referred to a dietician for advice.

As you are asking me for advice I hazard a guess that he has been diagnosed as lactose intolerant by a different source. I also suspect that it may be being suggested as a treatment for health problems other than diarrhoea after gastro-enteritis which is unusual at this age. If you are going to pursue a lactose free diet for your son it can involve a lot of effort and some expense to ensure he has no dairy products. I would suggest you try it for up to three months but only persist beyond this time if your son's symptoms show a marked improvement as there is little evidence that such diets help with other health conditions.

A lactose free diet means one with no dairy products at all. He can have soya milk and soya milk products (eg yoghurts and cheese) most of which are on sale in supermarkets. You need to buy a calcium enriched soya milk such as Provamel which contains at least 120 mg of calcium per 100 mls to ensure he gets enough calcium for his growing bones.

At his age he will need 275 to 450 mg of calcium a day which he can get partly or totally from his milk. Calcium and vitamins are also present in cereals including breakfast cereals, fruit, greens, eggs, bread, potatoes and meat (and tap water in hard water areas contains calcium) so as long as he is having a healthy mixed diet he should not require any supplements. If you are concerned that his diet may be deficient talk to your GP who can prescribe a supplement or refer your son to the local dietician for advice.