Amy ~ My family has been dairy free for 6 months.  My daughter had an ear infection at least once a month and I had a sinus infection once a month.  My son had thick green mucus all the time.  I read an article that suggested going off dairy to see if it helped.  My daughter has not had an ear infection since.  I have had 1 sinus infection, which I can actually trace to frappicinos!  My son's nose is clear for a super change.  We will never drink or use cow milk again!

Anonymous ~ We have such a long story.  I'm going to try to just give the highlights.  The story is about our 12-year-old son, Eddie, and I definately think it's worth telling. 

Eddie was weaned when he was 6 months old.  That is the exact time we started experiencing a variety of health issues.  He had chronic ear infections, strep throat, rashes, constipation and a distended belly. I vaguely remember a doctor mentioning dairy at the time, but I dismissed the notion.  It sounded like a lot of work, and possibly something a young Wisconsin mom shouldn't even consider.

Fast forward 6 years and Eddie is now diagnosed with Lyme Disease.  We battled this ridiculous disease for years.  He missed more school than he attended ...

Anonymous ~ Absolutely had to share this.  My 30-year old daughter has suffered with a troubled complexion and eczema for the last 10 years.  She tried just about everything topical.  The steroid creams helped the eczema but this is not a lifetime option.  She finally decided to try an elimination diet and started with dairy, because it seemed to be what she consumed the most.  I'm not lying when I say that within 2 weeks it was all gone.   She swears she'll never go back to dairy.  The change was just so remarkable.  Your website is so informative and we thank you for it.

Anonymous ~ I grew up on milk, I would have it everyday.  I developed horrible painful acne around the age of 13 so my mom took me to a dermatologist who told me that it was impossible for food to give me acne.  She then proceeded to give me Accutane.  The Accutane did work for a while.  I had an allergy scratch test and found out I was allergic to milk as well as many other foods.  As soon as I eliminated the milk my acne went away and I dropped 10 pounds.  What a stupid doctor that women was.  NO ONE should go on Accutane it is horrible.  I have milk sometimes but when I do about 5 days later I will get a huge pimple.  Not sure why it takes 5 days to pop up.

Nzie ~ It's kind of amazing how fast strange things become "normal," atleast for me.  Last winter (12/2008) I finally realised that my "normal" was seriously abnormal.

For atleast a year and a half, maybe more, I felt sick a lot.  Every day or nearly every day, I had bad gas, cramps, shivers, and a real "fun" time in the bathroom and other varied bathroom-related effects.  But I adapt to things quickly, so I just started making adjustments, plan this that way, check for XYZ, etc. 

It was in the back of my mind that this wasn't right, but it took a year and a half to do any research.  I'd been to Africa for 5 weeks with my university and been sick from my (otherwise fantastic!) host family's food every day, so I thought maybe I had a parasite or something worse ...

Taby ~ It's been two weeks since I first heard about the link between milk and dairy and two weeks since I went off dairy completely. Nothing has ever made my very bad cystic acne go away like this. I wasn't huge on dairy, since I'm lactose intolerant. But I did take the pills every now and then and I had a bowl of cereal every morning with lactose free milk. I'm now on rice milk only and no dairy ever. My skin is almost completely free of any acne at all. Almost all my blackheads are gone as well. It seems like my skin is in the healing stage. It's pushing all the dirt and stuff out of my pores. I've fought with this for 20 years. I've bought everything out there and even did home made "solutions". Nothing worked. But this does and I've never been happier. I can't wait to see what my skin will look like in another two weeks!!!

Christina ~ For many years I have suffered. Having many headaches and migraines as a young child with no reason why, stomaches, hives, rashes, ecsema, unexplained itching, later in life (20's) I was diagnosed with IBS & Acid Reflux after spending at least 3 nights a week up, sick all night. I also started to get more irritable and my pms was getting worse.

Two years ago I went in for allergy testing. I didn't ask to be tested for milk, after all I grew up on milk, lived on a farm, how could I be allergic? They tested foods because I knew that walnuts produced blisters in my mouth. They went ahead and tested all foods. To my surprise Milk came back as a possible allergy ...

Anonymous ~ At two months, my daughter was diagnosed with a dairy and soy allergy. I took all dairy and soy out of my diet immediately and kept nursing. She is happy and flourishing, and I've lost a full 100 lbs since her birth! Now she's 10 months, doing well, and nursing happily. With the great weight loss, two dairy-allergic kids, one on the Autism Spectrum and one with ADHD, we're loving being dairy-free!