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Ok We've Removed Gluten, Now Is He Having Trouble With Dairy?

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janelyb Enthusiast
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We removed wheat/gluten on 3/19...he got glutened on 3/24...but today 3/28 after his preschool lunch (corn chips and tostitos cheese con queso provided by me from home) he had ab destention, a huge knot in his bellyand has been complaining my tummy hurts. Do you think it was the cheese/dairy???? Or could it be cross contamination possibly from a crumb from another student at preschool??? Or can it just be from the weekend episode???

I'm so confused....I don't really want to remove all dairy too.

Janel

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CarlaB Enthusiast
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It could be anything. Do they use Playdoh at school? Most of it has gluten.

Do they keep his food separate from the other kids' and be sure he doesn't eat the other kids' food?

Some of us feel better in the beginning eating simple foods rather than processed foods. I know I did. That may help, too. Plus, there are lots of ups and downs in the beginning. He hasn't been on the diet long at all.

Hope he feels better soon!

janelyb Enthusiast
janelyb
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It could be anything. Do they use Playdoh at school? Most of it has gluten.

Do they keep his food separate from the other kids' and be sure he doesn't eat the other kids' food?

Some of us feel better in the beginning eating simple foods rather than processed foods. I know I did. That may help, too. Plus, there are lots of ups and downs in the beginning. He hasn't been on the diet long at all.

Hope he feels better soon!

yes the playdough was my 1st thought too. I was told they haven't had any playdough out in a while. I think I will request that future playdough be made from rice flour. I know it is really hard to say what happened....they say they watch him closely at meals and are very careful but you never know if a crumb flops over to his stuff....

Nikki2003 Contributor
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yes the playdough was my 1st thought too. I was told they haven't had any playdough out in a while. I think I will request that future playdough be made from rice flour. I know it is really hard to say what happened....they say they watch him closely at meals and are very careful but you never know if a crumb flops over to his stuff....

My daughter Gi said that alot of kids have an allergy to dairy sometimes for a short while after gluten is removed, they should get over it. I think my daughter is fine now,she also used to get distended even after removing gluten. And a test showed she had a slight milk allergy.

boho*mama Apprentice
boho*mama
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I think this may be happening with my son. We removed gluten (only a few day totally gluten-free) and now he's getting diariah, I'm so frustrated, is it a bug, is it dairy, is it from one of the new ingrediants? This is way worse then anything he's ever had before. I really hope it's just a virus (that sounds so ugly, to hope you r kid has a virus) b/c we are big cheese people. I a;so am hoping fr Nikki2003's suggestion that it is a short term thing...

Good luck, please let me know how your son is doing janelyb, it sounds like we're in the same stage of this.

Juliet Newbie
Juliet
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Our pediatric g.i. talked about dairy issues at the beginning and had us crush up Lactaid and include it in his meal every time he had dairy for the first month. He suggested it could take longer than that, but our son was having no problems with dairy after a month of being gluten free.

heathen Apprentice
heathen
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i had and still have occasional lactose intolerance since going gluten-free. i would cut out dairy in large quantities for a few months, then gradually reintroduce to see if the problems still exist. that worked for me. good luck!

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my daughter has been gluten free for 6 weeks and our peds. gi sad it could take up to 6mo to a year befor she will be able to consume milk products.. she had very bad reactions to milk when she was a newborn so mabe thats why he says it will take so long.

casssandra

anastasia my 18 month old w/celiac we still have to get her brother tested!!!

girlfromclare Apprentice
girlfromclare
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Diary issues often go hand in hand with celiac disease due to the small intestine being damaged by celiac and not being able to produce the right enzyme for breaking down dairy. My son is about five or six months gluten free now and is still completely off dairy as he had bad episodes from dairy products but once the intestine has healed some doctors say that dairy can be re-introduced into the diet as the intestine can handle it then. If he is celiac then your son obviously will have other intestinal issues relating to the damage cause by the celiac. I agree with other posters, remove dairy for a while, as it is very harsh on our stomachs anyway - see how he gets on after a couple of months and maybe reintroduce it to see if it causes any more problems. There are lots of dairy alternatives out there - i know it seems hard at the beginning but if you are already doing gluten you might as well do the dairy too. a lot of gluten free items are dairy free also because they are so commonly linked.

Hope this is of some help.

good luck

liz

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