DD2 is now 5 1/2 months old. With mild silent reflux on ranitidine. She is exclusively breast fed at the mo. I've been DF since my 3rd trimester. Both her older siblings have worse reflux and dairy intolerance...

I don't know what to do about dairy this time around.. I tried some cheese on 2 occasions this week and DD2 didn't react too much (was a little more spilly the day after one of the trials). So i tried some white chocolate today (will see what happens tomorrow..) DD1 used to SCREAM if i had anything containing dairy, so i'm really hoping DD2 might not be as sensitive...

I need to start solids soon and I would like to introduce some formula at some stage. (History suggests I'm not likely to BF for much more than a year)..

Any suggestions about what I should do with the dairy thing this time around? Should I keep introducing more and more dairy into my diet and see what happens? We've only seen the GP for her reflux, but I could go and see the paed. He suspect he would offer me neocate for her too (i could be wrong)..

I guess you will never know unless you try. But i can feel your reluctance as we all know what happens if a reaction occurs. No one wants to deal with that if they don't have to! I hate taking mine off the meds to check if they still need it. The in between time when you aren't sure if they are reacting or not then you get to the point where it is obvious they are and wish you had put them back on the meds earlier because then they are in distress. And of course you can't fix it, just wait til the meds or in your case the no dairy diet starts working again.
Horrible circle and it takes a lot of my will power to do it.
Good luck.
As to what to eat. Maybe try highly processed dairy? My friend has a child who was borderline anaphalactic to dairy and she is just having little bits of highly processed stuff at the age of 4. Reacting mildly. If you take it slow would it then give you an indicator as to what you might be able to eat and or she will be able to tolerate when eating solids.Also not give her body such a big shock? Someone may come a long here and contradict me soon. I don't have dairy intorlerant children just have done a fair amount of research into it via reflux.

Dairy builds up in breastmilk and can take a while to cause problems in some whereas with others it will be immediate or the next day. For us it would take a week, and then we had another horrible ten days to get rid of it out of our systems.

http://www.allergy.org.au/content/view/182/127/ gives some good information.