Originally posted by NoahsMommy
If by allergic, you mean "lactose intolerant"...you can eat hard cheeses, like parmasan and cheddar.
I'm not lactose intolerant.

When I was born, my eustacian tubes (I feel bad for not remembering how to spell this) were not fully developed. We weren't aware of WHAT it was until I was about 2 years old. Up until this time, my mom kept telling my doctor something was wrong with my ears. I always had ear infections and ALWAYS crying about it and I couldn't hear thunder. I literally was deaf - but it wasn't permanant, thank God. I went to my now ENT who took 10 seconds looking at me play in the playroom and went "it's not as bad as you think". He got me all cleared up, tubes put in. I think after the 3rd set of tubes (permanant ones this time) I was still having chronic ear infections and we couldn't get medicine to work. This is when my ENT said it was a food allergy, as the regular allergy test didn't show anything. He put me off dairy for about 6 months, and everything cleared up. No ear infections, nothing. To this day, if I eat a lot of cheese or a lot of some other kind of dairy, I have an ear infection and regret it fully.