19 Month Old Vomits From Rice

[dianesetser]

My son tried eating rice cereal around four months old and started to vomit about two hours later.... this would last for about six hours (until we got to the bile) and then he would be fine (other then really tired). We tried oatmeal cereal with the same results. This is still going on, but he can now eat some breads. Does he have celiac disease? He is about to go through tests, but I just want to get some feed back from you all (please). About your experience, especially in babies.

He is healthy... I have been feeding him Pediasure two times a day, juice, and milk. He associates eating with vomiting so he is somewhat sceptical of eating. I still encourage him to eat veggies and fruit.

I appreciate any help you all can give.

Thank you Thank you!!!

Diane Setser

[Jamesmommy]

No help here.We are waiting on diagnoses too but I did wnat to offer some ((HUGS))

Jamesmommy

[flagbabyds]

Just to let you know then if you are having the testing then make sure he is hving gluten for at least 3 weeks in advance

[rgeelan]

Ok dont mind me but I am going to be blunt here. How old is your son now? And why did you try feeding him cereal at 4 months old... Now this is in a way the pot calling the kettle black, but you should probably wait till 6 months to start solids... A lot of the time it is not so much an allergy as the childs body just is not developed enough to handle solids. We started our son on solids at just over 2 months because he was drinking almost 40oz of breastmilk/formula a day but even then we didn't push solids it was only if he wanted them and he didn't start eating them regularily till 6 months or so... Our daughter started at about 6 months but didn't realy get into eating till about 9 months... She could care less.

I would check for things like a dairy allergy. Because it seems odd that he woudl react to rice and oatmeal both if it was Celiac. Rice can be hard to digest though for really young babies so maybe that isn't an allergy as he's just not ready. There are also problems like piloric stinosis (not sure if that is spelled right) it is an abnormality where they have something wrong with thier intestines and it causes babies to vomit everything, it is more common in boys then it girls. I would check that option also...

I'm no expert but I have been through a lot with both my kids and it has taken a long time to get diagnosis on both of them for being sick, but that has given me a lot fo information. lol

Good luck! Hope you get an easy answer!