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This is one of the scariest things you will do as a mother. I remember every time we would trial something. My son was unusual and reacted more to soy than dairy. So we had many set backs. So I would recommend offering only one of those things and wait over a week before offering a new thing. My sons symptoms didn't come back for 3 days. I would definitely feed it to him because then at least your milk is clean. If I were to do it over again, I would offer him something and wait 24 hours to see if there was an immediate reaction. Then for the next 2 days I would feed him more of it to see if there was a volume reaction. Then after a week or two I would trial something new. But I am over cautious because of his experience.

As far as what to start with, start with whatever will make your life easier. We did Soy Lecithin early because we needed to be able to buy fake butter and other foods that had it in there. If you really need yogurt, do that (those probiotics are wonderful things).

@ustechie: he is now 26 months old. He had it rough until we did allergy testing at 18 months where we confirmed soy. It is his only allergy/intollerance now. Since we dropped soy, he has gained weight like crazy and is a different kid.

He is thriving on dairy and doing so well. He does tolerate soybean oil and soy lecithin thankfully. We don't plan to trial soy again. When he turns 3 we will do allergy testing again and trial only of he doesn't react.