Milk And Penicillin Allergy In Thailand

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About 15 years ago the Bangkok Post ran a story about dairy farmers in Thailand who give their cattle penicillin when they are sick but DON'T stop bottling their milk during that time or for the regulation 5 days afterwards. The thrust of the article was that Thai milk was often laced with penicillin and that various common bugs might develop a resistence to it.

This was a wake-up call for me, since I had been plagued with strange rashes on the chest for years and all the doctor could say for sure was that it was an allergy. But I knew I was allergic to penicillin already - it's a common allergy - I just never imagined it would be in milk. I immediately switched to UHT milk (the processing gets rid of the penicillin) and never had the rashes again, or the fungal infections of the eye (pink eye) that I'd been getting too.

I'm sure that nothing has changed in the dairy industry here, so if you or your kids are milk drinkers and get unexplained allergic rashes or frequent fungal infections, try switching to UHT. You'll be glad you did.