Abdominal Pain

[mbm1]

My seven yr. daughter was diagnosed by Enterolab. She has an appt. with a Gastro dr. at the end of the month but, has been gluten free for over a month. When I tried to reintroduce it for a biopsy she had a severe reaction. She still has abdominal pain so, we took her off dairy also. When does the pain go away? I am hoping it is constipation pain. She can't have a bowel movement unless I give her Glycolex. Help!!

[acod]

Hi

Was she free of pain when she was on her first month off of gluten? Unfortunatley, my son (who is 12) still has constant abdominal pain, albeit less than it was...and he has been gluten free for 4.5 months...so, sorry to say, it can stay around. He also struggles with limited bowel function. The Glycolax that we took for 2 weeks, only produced 2 BM in two weeks. Finally he is up to 2 BM's a week, and we are working at getting his system more active. It is like he has no peristaltic motion. Anyway, what we do is try and give him lots of food based fiber and TONS of water. He takes a walk every day too. It seems to help. We also use GI yoga positions to help relieve some of his pain. Unfortunately, we know that some of the pain is due to "back-up" and other is that fact that he still has lesions. it is taking a long time for his numbers to come down.

Yoga positions:

Kneel on the ground and then fold body down onto knees, putting your head down between knees. Extend arms out behind you, laying them next to each leg. Relax and hold. Breath deeply for the count of 30+

Lay on your stomach

Gently arch your back, lifting head and feet

Lay on back

Arch back up and put hands as fists under the small of your back

Other Positions that may help:

Lay on back, bring knees up to chest and do slow bicycle action with legs

Hope this helps

[BRUMI1968]

I would definitely avoid dairy as well, I can't remember if you said you did. The smallest amount of dairy gives me terrible constipation and cramps in the intestines. Other causes of non-gluten intestinal pain for me are nuts - mainly walnuts. Also, eating sugar gives me abdominal pains. I think I likely get yeast build-up when I eat a lot of sugar. When I quit sugar, most carbs and most fruits, the pain goes away right away.

All of us are different I suppose, so you need to experiment with what it might be...but dairy, corn, wheat, and soy are the big allergens that get folks the most. I'd try getting rid of these first off.

Good luck. Oh yeah, garlic gave me terrible pains at first too.

[mbm1]

Thank you both for responding. She has been off dairy now for a couple of weeks and it has helped a lot. I am going to have her try the yoga poses when she gets home from school. Also I found a gentler herbal laxative called Swiss Kriss. I give her half a dose.

That is so wierd about the garlic. I have Celiac's also and just discovered that it is the garlic that is still bothering me. Do you know why?

Mary