Traumatic Or Early Birth And Celiac

[B'sgirl]

I took my two year old who I suspect has Celiac to a chiropractor today because a friend of mine said her son's milk allergies went away after being adjusted. The chiropractor said that a lot of times trauma during birth like having their head pulled excessively or smashed can cause the spinal cord to stretch and cause things in the nervous system to go out of place and by adjusting those, food allergies and other problems often go away. It makes sense but I've never seen any research about it. I was just curious what your experiences were and if there was a connection here.

[Lisa]

I took my two year old who I suspect has Celiac to a chiropractor today because a friend of mine said her son's milk allergies went away after being adjusted. The chiropractor said that a lot of times trauma during birth like having their head pulled excessively or smashed can cause the spinal cord to stretch and cause things in the nervous system to go out of place and by adjusting those, food allergies and other problems often go away. It makes sense but I've never seen any research about it. I was just curious what your experiences were and if there was a connection here.

I can't imagine a possible connection. How and why was your two years old suspected of Celiac? If that is the case, there is no cure other than diet (at least for now).

[Mother of Jibril]

My son has a severe intolerance to casein and his birth was very gentle. He was born at 39 weeks, 5 days... very healthy, 8lb. 4oz. I didn't have an epidural or any other drugs... only pushed for about 15 minutes, no interventions (no forceps, no suction, etc...).

I suspect he inherited my DQ7 gene, which can cause both gluten intolerance and casein intolerance... the trigger might have been exposure to all of my antibodies from undiagnosed autoimmune disorders.

[3groovygirls]

My daughter is suspected Celiacs (she reacts so violently to gluten she's been off it since she basically first had it so we can't test for it) allergic to wheat, eggs, rice, soy, peanuts, lima beans, seaood, pears and sweet potatoes. we have NO family history of food allergies (other than seafood). She had probably the least traumatic birth ever!! You know how they have you do 3 pushes in one contraction when you're in labor? She was out before the one contraction was even over. No stress at birth, born full term at exactly 40 weeks. So that theory doesn't hold true for her at all! But I have heard that before!

[B'sgirl]

I can't imagine a possible connection. How and why was your two years old suspected of Celiac? If that is the case, there is no cure other than diet (at least for now).

I think you're right that if it's actually Celiac nothing but diet change will help because it's genetic. He shows all the symptoms of having Celiac but has not been diagnosed. He could just have lots of food intolerances. We took him off gluten and casein which helped a lot, but he still had trouble and we suspected corn so we removed that too. He is still healing from the corn bread muffins so I can't tell if that has helped or not. (That was two weeks ago). For all we know we are barking up the wrong tree and he has something entirely different.

[Lisa]

I would continue to seek medical advise. Have you had him tested for food allergies? What are his symptoms?

[B'sgirl]

I would continue to seek medical advise. Have you had him tested for food allergies? What are his symptoms?

We took him to an allergist and came up with nothing. His symptoms: doesn't sleep well, lots of large bowel movements (4 a day), often has what looks like sand in his diapers, bad diaper rash, very cranky at times, eczema, bloated belly, sometimes acts disoriented or spaces out. All those symptoms improved after going gluten-free, but weren't completely gone. Then we removed milk from his diet and he got even better. But even now he still has unexplained bouts of it. The last one happened after eating some gluten-free corn bread, and before that after eating taco soup. It could be the corn, cross-contamination, or something else. We are taking him to a naturalist this week because the medical doctors here don't seem a bit concerned that he has steadily lost weight percentile (25th to 10th in 6 months) and actually lost two pounds in three weeks last month. We are currenly collecting samples for Enterolab as well.

[shan]

i was very ill approx 5 weeks before dd was born - high fever and very strong antibiotics, they thought it was meningitis. She is a celiac and she is the only one of the family, unless you count my step-grandma

[kbtoyssni]

I don't see how a traumatic birth could cause celiac, but if a child is genetically prone to celiac it might be the "trigger" for celiac to develop.