I’m having some trouble getting used to the idea of Adrian being allergic to milk. To anything, for that matter. We don’t “do” allergies in our family. Allergies are for other people, for people with bad genes, generally weak constitutions and too-clean homes. But Adrian obviously doesn’t have any bad genes (since he got them from us), and it’s obviously not due to excessive hygiene either (since he had his allergy pretty much from birth).

One of Eric’s siblings has some minor allergies, and nobody on my side has any. When I grew up we knew exactly one allergic kid. I’ve read in various places that (food) allergies are far more common than they used to be. Now I have personal experience of it.

PS: Technically what he has is milk protein intolerance, not allergy – the immune reaction mechanism is different but the end result is the same, he feels bad if I eat dairy products.