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A week ago or so I posted about our 10 month old and his sudden bout with what I call throwing up. He has done it again and there was alot of it. We are out of town presently and won't be back home until Sunday. Is there ANY way to tell the difference between Reflux and Celiac? Can a child have reflux, it go away and come back out of nowhere. This has been going on for over a month now. There is no rhyme or reason to when Sutton will "blow". This seems to coincide with us upping his intake of crackers and cheerios....or maybe I am wanting an answer so bad!! I tried calling our ped, but they do not have a phone nurse staffed this week!!! :unsure:

What do we do in the meantime?? Find a walk in clinic here..or just wait? Should I call our other son's GI??

Dallas

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I hope he feels better. It is tough to be sick especially when you are away from home.

I don't have much advice other than to tell you that my main symptom as a child was reflux. Now, if I'm glutened I get reflux for 3 weeks after being glutened.

If you are seeing that things like cheerios are trigger foods, obviously keep him away from those. I would think the best thing would be to try to keep him away from all gluten and all trigger foods while you are gone and see if things get better.

If pedialite is gluten-free, then I would try that to make sure he is well hydrated.

Hope he feels better.

Guest nini
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Cassidy gave good advice... if you see certain things are a trigger, avoid those while you are away from home and see if it helps... and keep him hydrated.

My daughter's reflux was terrible and she had CONSTANT projectile vomiting, we couldn't go anywhere without several changes of clothes and extra towels and baby wipes to clean up any messes that ensued... the worst incident was one year on the 4th of July we were getting ready to leave the house and she had thrown up 3 times before we got out the door, so three changes of clothes before we even left the house and then TWICE in the car on the way there... and no we couldn't have just stayed home as my dad had driven up from Florida to see both my family and my sister's family and was only going to be up for the day...

Kibbie Contributor
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I can tell you that my daughter's Celiac Symptoms resembled reflux so much so that we had an upper GI scheduled for her until we got her blood test results back. Her GI doctor ran the celiac test because I mentioned on the family history questionare that my grandma had Lupus and another grandmother was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel syndrome.

We were concerned about reflux at 18 months old even though she had never shown signs of it before. So if a Doctor claims that this type of throwing up isn't a sign of Celiac... I have proof otherwise!

Kibbie

skipper30 Enthusiast
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Thanks to you all! I think that being away from home has me very frazzled! This is our first Thanksgiving post Celiac and that has me nervous anyway. Then add the baby doing whatever it is that he is doing...just more than I could bear Tuesday!!

Thanks for your help!!

Happy Holidays!

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Hey Skipper - my daughter was the same way. The doctors said she had reflux. It seemed to get better as she was on veggies and breastmilk. We had even weaned her off of medicine. Then we introduced cheerios and she started throwing up 15 times a day. The doctors thought her reflux had come back. We continued to feed her everything. She ate unbelievable amounts of food and pooped unbelievable amounts of poop - she gained no weight between 9 and 12 months. Needless to say, at her 12 month appt. we started doing lots of testing and she was diagnosed by 14 months. Oh, her biopsy also showed a completely healthy esophagus - I doubt she ever had reflux.

Avoid all trigger foods and be careful of those hidden glutens. Good luck to you! Especially while traveling - I always take EVERYTHING with me!

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