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9 Month Old Just Diagnosed


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Hello everyone, my name is Michelle. My son's name is Lanigan. He is 9 months old and was just diagnosed with celiac. I am feeling very overwhelmed by all of this... any pointers would be great. He is a very sick baby right now. It also appears he might have a heart issue, but the cardio doc doesn't want to look into it to much til we are a bit better otherwise.


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Michelle,

Welcome to the forum. :D You've come to the right spot to learn about celiac/gluten intolerance. TCA will probably post on here at some point. She has a little girl that is going in for heart surgery next week. I have an 8 month old who I haven't tried gluten foods on yet. He broke out in eczema that didn't clear up until I went soy and gluten free so I know he has some sort of problem with gluten. If you are still breastfeeding you need to make sure that you are gluten free as well since it can pass through the breastmilk. That's how I started on my journey to discover that myself, my daughter and my oldest son are all gluten intolerant. We had testing done by enterolab after I had allergy testing done. There is a lot to learn but just take it a step at a time. TCA started a thread to help new people out and I'm sure she will reference it when she posts. For the safe and forbidden foods list on celiac.com click here. I don't know what you are feeding Lanigan now as far as solids, but you will want to read baby food jar labels if you don't make your own food. When you get to stage 3 foods they typically start adding more ingredients, I'm not sure if stage 2 has the same issues or not. Be sure to ask any questions you have. There are a lot of knowledgeable and loving people here who love to help each other out.

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I posted to your other thread, but in answer as to how to get started, here's a thread I started while back

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