SC poudre forte Re: SC - Spice cabinet-what do we stock?

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Brenna of Lyonsbane wrote:
> 
> A homeopathic friend of mine recently recommended that another friend's son be
> taken off all dairy and given rice milk products instead.  He said that the
> little boy's chronic ENT problems were caused by an "allergy" that is very
> common in northern Europian decendants.  The body cannot properly digest the
> milk, so it creates excess mucous and often ends up plugging the ears and sinus
> cavities with it.  Crazy sounding or not, it worked like a charm.  Two months
> later, he is a normal kid with normal colds that don't turn life-threatening
> once a month.  Has anyone ever heard of this before?  If so, do you have more
> information, as his mother is very interested in learning more?
> 
> Brenna

This sounds like an _almost_ classic case of lactose intolerance, with
symptoms very similar to my son's. His problem with excess mucus tends
to lead to post-nasal drip, ultimately causing him to explode from the
nether regions. I'd say that most of the cases of lactose intolerance
I've heard about tend to have some kind of dire digestive consequences.
This may not be true of all or even most of the cases, but the ones I've
seen tend to be this way. 

My son's been drinking soy milk for most of his life now (like maybe six
of the past seven years) and it seems to work quite well, and I believe
there is more protein in soy milk than in rice milk. Just one question:
has anybody tried this child out with the various lactose-reduced cow's
milk products out there, to see if it is the indigestible sugars or
something else...?

Adamantius  
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