Milktastic

I have been thinking about trying Wm on a little bit of dairy for a bit since:
1. a lot of kids with early lactose intolerance outgrow it
2. sometimes people that can't tolerate gluten can't tolerate dairy until they heal up, making it appear that they are lactose intolerant when, really, gluten is the underlying culprit. Since Wm has been off gluten for a month now, if that was causing anything, it shouldn't be by now!

So, this weekend was The Great and Exciting Milk Weekend of William. First, I gave him a couple cookies made with butter after dinner on Friday. Nothing. Then, Saturday morning, a couple spoonfuls of yogurt. Good to go. So then, I gave him a piece of toast with a full tablespoon of cream cheese on it with his lunch. Wm started eating it and goes, "Uh, Mommy…this is REALLY good…it tastes like it could have dairy in it?" (Up unil this point, I had been doing it secretly to negate any sort of dairy placebo-style effect.) So I admitted to him that there was, in fact, dairy in there and I had been secretly experimenting on him. Wm was far from displeased. He gobbled it up and was like, "I MISS DAIRY." He felt totally fine all day Saturday, despite my continued ramping up of milkiness.

Sunday, then, became Dairy Day (or D-Day). For Father's Day, we took Steve out for ice cream.  And Wm got some too. Eating a big bowl of ice cream would be his final exam in the Dairy Test. He wanted the entire process documented because he was so excited. I wish everyone could have seen his face when REAL ice cream hit his tongue. Bliss.

Digging in

A little nervous about the first bite

YUM!!!! Pure Happiness. 

COMPLETELY GONE! 

Wm suffered no ill effects at all!  He was totally fine!! I gave him regular yogurt and granola for breakfast this morning. A-OK. So I'm calling it. Wm is back on dairy!! 

This is actually good and bad news. He still says his stomach hurts (like a knife poking him) every day. He rarely offers the information, but if I ask, "how did your stomach feel today?" he will usually answer, "Good - except it hurt for a bit before lunch…and after lunch…and in the afternoon…." So it's not debilitating, but it's there. So either Wm just has a real creepy stomach, he doesn't know what a stomach is supposed to feel like (is he hungry? full? gassy? anxious? who knows), or there is some other problem lurking. Next weekend, we reintroduce the gluten to see what happens. He goes to see his doctor this week, and I will talk over all of our experimenting with her.  

But, no matter what, it is VERY good news that Wm seems to either have outgrown or fixed his dairy issue!!!  (2 years ago, if he so much as got a particle of yogurt on his tongue, he'd be on the couch for the rest of the day in agony - so, this is BIG!)