When To Test Your Child?

[sydneysmommy]

I am almost 26 years old and was diagnosed with celiac disease 5 years ago.

I have Celiac Disease but am also sensitive to many other foods; mostly starches & creams & corn syrup etc. i am currently doing the SCD diet modified to include a minimal rice allowance. this works well for me.

i just had a baby in November and knowing how incredibly sensitive *I* am to foods/ingredients above and beyond gluten, I am worried about starting her on solids soon.

we just began rice cereal and she loooooves it.

she's in the 80th percentile for 4 mos old.

how young can you have babies/children tested?

[moonunit]

I've been wondering the same thing -- I've seen that you can't do blood tests for kids under age 2 but the Enterolab I think does stool tests for younger.

I don't want to put my kids through the incredible hassle of the gluten-free diet if I don't have to, but I don't want to wait until there's really horrible damage and THEN say "whoopsie" and put them on it too late.

Has anyone here had their kids under two tested, and if so, what reason did you have it done (symptoms, diagnosis in parent, etc.?)

[happy4dolphins]

HI,

My Joshua will be 2 on April 2 and he's just 24 lbs. He was up to 26 at one point a month or so ago. I called the doc last week due to some blood in his stool. She said he had some tairs in hi anal tissue area so we kept a and d ointment on it along with some triple antibiotic ointment and it was healed up in about 24 - 48 hours. He screamed with his last bowel movement and it was rather firm to hard (unusal for him). So I took him in and told the doc that my Rheumatologist put me on a celiac diet and asked if he could be too.

I'm wondering also about my 7 year old daughter. She's had stomachaches and really bad leg pains since she was young. ALso has had trouble with constipation since she switched over to formual at 3 m onths. IT was so stuck at one point before she was 2, that I took the thermometer and helped pull it out.

Hope this helps,

Nicole

p.s. Joshua did get blood work done on Monday, so we'll hear back sometime soon I"d expect.

p.s.s. Doc wanted me to get a list of his weight and height too from begining until current. I"ve got a lot of them written down since he went to a foot doctore the first 5 months of his life. He was born with on really sever club foot and one slightly.

[Smitten]

I am currently getting more tests for Celiac. One of my blood test were borderline and my bx showed blunt villi. My daughter is 11 years old and 60 lbs. She has had stomaches and bouts of diahrrea. After I get the final word that I have Celiac......she is getting tested! I wish I would have known about all of this years ago. But, she is young yet and if she has it, we still have time for her to do some more growing! )