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Cooper gets his yogurts back

Cooper gets his yogurts back

by Kerensa Mitchell.
Posted on 13/01/2010

My son Cooper (four and a half) and I are both lactose intolerant.


I became lactose intolerant after having him and after two years of being told I had IBS, I decided to check what I was eating and find out for myself. After cutting out a lot of foods, I soon discovered that dairy was the problem, so I just stayed away from it. I told my doctor, but she wasn’t very interested.


For the last two years, there wasn’t a day when my son would not soil himself. During visits to the doctor and health visitors all I got told was that it was a phase he would grow out of or that he could be stressed or just lazy.


As the start of school got closer I was getting more and more stressed about how to stop him having accidents so he didn’t get picked on at school.


We went to Australia for five weeks and I had to use pull-ups on him all the time as he could just not make it to the toilet in time. I was getting more stressed and would get cross at him for being lazy.


When we got home from our trip I just couldn’t get back into the swing of getting up early and getting the kids to school and nursery, so we spent the first week running out the door with toast in hand as we had no time for cereal.


By the end of the week I realised that we had not had a single accident and I thought: “yes, we’ve cracked it!” Then we went to the cafe for lunch and he asked for a milkshake – well, an hour had not passed before we had one of the worst accidents. But it was like someone switched the light on and I realised what the problem was!


So we experimented for the next week and then I took him the doctors to check for sure that he was lactose intolerant. All I got was “yes, it sounds like he is, just take out the milk, but still let him have cheese and yogurt.”


But every time he had a yogurt he would have a small accident, but I felt bad for him because it his favourite snack.


My local supermarket sold lactose free milk and that was a godsend, until the shop changed hands and they stopped stocking it. So we had to travel 30 minutes to get some, but when we went to Edinburgh (one hour away) to an even bigger store, we found the full Lactofree range – my son is really happy to get his yogurts again!


I have to supply his nursery with his cheese, yogurt and milk every week, but it is worth it! And bless him – he is even noticing a difference and will check that his nursery teacher has given him his milk or cheese before he eats it!


Now we just have to get everyone to stop buying him chocolates as he gorged on them at Christmas and had to keep rushing to the toilet. He now knows that chocolate has milk in it tool, but at first I think he thought I was telling him fibs!

Comments (1)

Elaine Livingstone’s Avatar

13/02/2010

Re: Cooper gets his yogurts back – Elaine Livingstone

its amazing isnt it. my grandson ( nearly 4) also queries what he eats at nursery, and like your son can join in with nursery snack time safely. Its great that something so simple can make a difference to their whole confidence out in the big wide world.

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