How do the parents of babies and young children with cow milk allergy go about avoiding cow milk and other potential new allergens?

I am having quite a lot of difficulties following the milk free diet. How do the parents of babies and young children with cow milk allergy go about avoiding cow milk and other potential new allergens?

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Hi Shara

For most babies, the best way to avoid cow milk and other allergens is through breastfeeding. In the non-breastfed baby who is only consuming standard infant formula based on hydrolysed milk protein, the avoidance of cow milk is achieved through removing the standard infant formula and replacing it with a nutritionally complete, hypoallergenic formula (such as Pepti Junior from Cow’s & Gate).

After the age of six months, the baby’s gut and immune system have matured. For nutritional and developmental reasons, solid foods now need to appear in the diet. This provides more of a challenge because all of these solid foods need to be free of cow milk and there is also a risk of the baby developing food allergies to some of these new food proteins.