Allergic to dairy products?

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My daughter has been found to be allergic to dairy products. She has AS. Since she has given up dairy and started taking lactose tablets when she does eat dairy, she is not so tired and not bloated. Does anyone have this problem? I have heard that dairy can trigger AS symptoms.

alliegirl, i have dairy products (and i'm aspergers) and i'm not allergic to it, usually people with autism may have problems with dairy products when there child but when they grow up and turn adult they usually can handle it. but everyone whos aspergers is different, when i was a child i would be allergic to cold stuff, such as ice cream, ice cold water, etc but i do get a nasty cough if i have alot of cold stuff now, but dairy products was fine as long as they werent cold.

Me, I often drink so much milk my mother yells at me for taking it all.

My mom is very allergic to dairy products and I have a very strong feeling I will be sooner or later. One thing that we do is buy this "milk" called Rice Dream. It has no dairy ingredients at all. Plus you can store it in the pantry for up to a year before opening it!

That sounds just like me when I had developed an allergy to cinnamon. I ate tons of cinnamon products in pre-school and soon enough, I became quite allergic to it for about four or five years. Lucky for me, I outgrew that allergy so that is no longer the case. And my mom developed her milk allergy when she was pregnant with me (about 27 years old). So hopefully your daughter will still have a chance to outgrow it!

I was severely lactose intolerant for the first 20 years of my life. I have no idea why, but I grew out of it practically overnight. Now I consume vast quantities of dairy for all the years of deprivation!

I was once addicted to chocolate milk. I think it was a AS obsession. I had to stop because of the weight gain. I'm talking buying a gallon of chocolate milk at the store drinking it all at work, and then on the way home buying another quart.

I gained like 20 pounds I'm still trying to get rid of. I refuse to drink milk now.

Lactose intolerance is not an allergy. The gas and diarrhea are caused when lactose sugar is not absorbed into the body, and bacteria ferment it in the intestines.

One of the hidden side effects of lactose intolerance (or fructose intolerance) is anxiety and depression. This condition blocks the normal absorption of tryptophan, which is the essential building block for serotonin. Getting the bowels back to normal by cutting down on the lactose or fructose lets the body absorb tryptophan normally.

A true allergy to milk is an Immune Reaction to protein. It may be a problem in a subset of people of with ASDs. It is very different from lactose intolerance.

I drank a lot of milk and ate a lot of fruit as a kid, but around age thirty I developed a hypersensitivity to lactose and fructose which would trigger IBS attacks.