Milk Allergy Diet
(Yahoo! News, KidsHealth.org, 7/27/06)

In addition to avoiding obvious foods—like milk, cheese and ice cream—people with milk allergies face the challenge of scrutinizing labels to find the milk and milk products that are hidden within the ingredient lists of so many common foods. A milk allergy reaction may appear as rapidly as within seconds after ingesting a dairy product or, more typically, may have a slower-onset, developing over hours or even days after milk consumption, and may include diarrhea, vomiting, irritability, and failure of a baby to grow normally. Milk allergy differs from lactose intolerance in that the former is an immune reaction to milk proteins; whereas, the latter means the body cannot break down lactose, a milk sugar. Children with milk allergies should have epinephrine (EpiPen) available to them to treat a sudden severe reaction.