Gluten Intolerance Trial Test For My Toddler

[eleinys]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum and very confused and frustrated and will really appreciate some help

My 19 month old daughter has had eczema pretty much since she was born, we've used steroid creams which I hate, natural medicine, you name it we've done it. Today we went to see a Homeopath doctor and he put her in a gluten, dairy and sugar free diet for 2 weeks and see how it goes.

The thing is I have no idea what to give her, and I have to send her to her nursery school with snacks and she is very picky, I would like to send her with something similar to the other kids eat so she doesn't feel bad uuugh, I don't know what to do.

[lizard00]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

There's lots of great advice here, and you'll get it.

Since you said she's picky, it might be easier to help you subsitute if you could give us some ideas of what she normally eats and what she likes. Then the ideas can really fly!!

[missy'smom]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum and very confused and frustrated and will really appreciate some help

My 19 month old daughter has had eczema pretty much since she was born, we've used steroid creams which I hate, natural medicine, you name it we've done it. Today we went to see a Homeopath doctor and he put her in a gluten, dairy and sugar free diet for 2 weeks and see how it goes.

The thing is I have no idea what to give her, and I have to send her to her nursery school with snacks and she is very picky, I would like to send her with something similar to the other kids eat so she doesn't feel bad uuugh, I don't know what to do.

My son had eczema for years and we did a gluten-free trial and it disappeared and his skin was so nice. When we introduced gluten back, it came back. He had a neg, celiac disease panel bloodwork so we are testing through enterolab over the coming Xmas break. He was off gluten completely for about 6 weeks. It took that long for his sores to heal and everything to clear up and then for us to see that he wasn't getting any more irritation resulting in sores. So I would recommend that you go more than two weeks. I would also eliminate dairy and gluten separately so that you know which one is causing the eczema.

Be careful that wheat free is not the same as gluten-free and wheat free products may still contain gluten.

Namaste make mixes that are often gluten and dairy free and some have no sugar. I recently made mini blueberry muffins for my son, with a mix, and added banana puree instead of the sugar.

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Glutino makes a cracker(the plain flavor) and pretzels that are dairy-free, if peanut butter is allowed where she goes, then you could get a natural, no-sugar P.B. like Smuckers Natural brand

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Gerber makes packets of freeze dried fruit bits that even I like as a snack, I don't remember if they add sugar

You can make gelatin with Knox unflavored gelatin and no sugar added, 100% fruit juice.