Middle of the night wake ups!

My 14 month old (for the past 6 nights) wakes up 2 times crying and screaming (throat cry...sounds horribly painful). He doesn’t want to be held, set down, rubbed, pacifier...nothing! I lay down with him and he tries to throw himself off the bed and just keeps thrashing nonstop. He will throw the pacifier if I try to give it to him. The only thing that stops the screaming and crying is a bottle of whole milk. I am concerned for 3 things:

1) he ends up drinking over 10oz in the course of the middle of the night (not to mention what he already had at bedtime)

2)creating a bad habit of needing the milk to calm down...never had this sleep association before

3) bad for his teeth to have all this milk in the middle of the night

I have already ramped up his food intake during the day (BTW he has been eating SO much more). I don’t see any new teeth coming in and he doesn’t have an ear infection.

Any ideas or suggestions? I feel like I am already giving him a ton of food during the day but I need him to be soothed another way during the night.