rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russ Herman) (03/01/85)
Our 3-1/2 year old has had severe problems with constipation since going onto
solid food. We'd tried everything we could think of: his diet is high in
fiber from cereals and fresh fruit, but after a bowel impaction, we had
to put him on mineral oil every day (no way to get any prune juice into
the kid), and he's not as much of a drinker as we'd like, either.
My cousin's wife, an X-ray technician with a strong interest in
natural remedies, prevailed on us to switch him over to goat's milk. She
suspected some sort of allergic reaction (although my understanding of
milk intolerance is that its symptomatology tends to the other extreme).
In the spirit of "Well, it's something we haven't tried yet." we did,
and it seems to be doing the the trick. For the past three weeks he's been
clockwork.
I don't think that it's a true allergy. He does still have the occasional
cow's milk when we're out, and cheese. However, it seems that to his
digestive system, cow's milk is far more binding than goat's.
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