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Show Your Babyt Don't Force Milk on Child If It Upsets Him By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED "Ever since my three-year-old was put upon cows' milk, he hag been subject to a rash. At first, we were ignorant of it cause, then when we tried leaving out first ona, then another food, we discovered the rash healed when milk was omitted. "I understand this is called infantile eczema but we are at a loss how to feed him without using milk. The various books I have read, suggest goat's milk as a good substitute. But I cannot keep a goat, where I live, and I know no one who sella this milk. stltutions which may be made for offending foods. It may be had by aending a S-cent stamped, self-addressed, self-addressed, envelope with your letter let-ter to Mrs. Eldred of the your baby and mine department In care of The Salt Lake Telegram. "How long ia it aafe for the child to go without milk? What foods can take its place? Doea he need cod liver oil? We thought that it might have been rich milk which upaet him at firat and because of ths fat content we wondered it cod liver oil would do the aama thing." It la difficult to plan a diet minus milk for a child. But until you have tried all kinda of milk products. prod-ucts. It Is not yet time to say that be muat get along without it. Advertise in your home paper and you may discover soms individuals who market goats' milk in your vicinity. Phone or write to your nearaat wholesale druggist and aak where evaporated goals' milk can be purchased. Goals' milk is often well taken by children who cannot tolerate cows' milk. Unless you have tried evaporated or dried cows' milk, or a product made of aoy beana, you haven't exhausted ex-hausted all the possible waya of getting protein fluida Into the diet. Some of the other protein foods are cheese, beans, peaa, meat, eggs, fish, fowl and gelatin. It la possible pos-sible to overemphasise theae in the diet, perhapa, and cut the milk to a minimum. For obviously If milk Is chronically upsetting, it does the child no real good to force It, This is a tremendously complicated compli-cated subject and you should have a good allergist to help you wish your problem. He can auggeat the type of vitamin D which will be least offending. Any ecsematous baby needs vitamin D. Free Leaflet Our free leaflet, "Food for the Allergic Child," suggests the sub- |