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I Might Have Glutened My Daughter


mom2twoangels

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Hi,

For the last 2 days my daughter has refused to eat hardly anything she will drink her milk and juice but that is it she won't even eat her vitamins that she loves.

To confuse the matter about 8 days ago she swallowed a peice of plastic fork. it was a small piece and the ER said it should pass fine. I have tried to "look" for it sorry TMI and haven't seen anything.

Before we were diagnosed she has gotten really ill (from the celiac) and was refusing to eat - however she said her tummy hurt all the time - now she doesn't say it hurts she just won't eat. Behavior wise pretty ok, maybe more sensitive.

So if I did do it how - I do have gluten stuff in the house but only use it for my son's lunches (school here has been out so that stuff hasn't even been out at all) and some things my husband likes for dinner - only prepared in separate pans after the kids food is all cleared up.

She did have 2 new kinds of yogurt - one states gluten free the other does not but reads ok? - could that be a possibility? The other thing she ate more of than usual was the Tomato soup - The one from Heinz that I thought was gluten free? I really don't know what could have done it, worried that if I don't figure it out I will just keep glutening her...


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ang1e0251 Contributor

Can you list the ingredients on the yogurt?

mom2twoangels Apprentice
Can you list the ingredients on the yogurt?

Cultured Pasturized Grade A Reduced Fat milk, Vanilla bean base (Sugar, Water, Modified Corn Starch, Natural Flavors, citric acid, vanilla beans) Sugar Modified corn starch kosher gelatin.

so maybe natural flavors -

Dr's dont think it is the fork and they don't think it is gluten issue either. Ped thinks constipation - but I just don't think so she is still barely eating 4 days later.

Ug just when her weight was coming up so nicely since our diagnosis...

ang1e0251 Contributor

Everything looks good there except for the natural flavors. You could call them about that just so you know for future.

At her age, kids really cut back on their eating. It could be one of those spells where she just doesn't have an appetite for a few days. Maybe the milk could be secretly "fortified" with nutrition to get her through these few days.

It's hard to deal with when kids won't eat. You feel you're letting them down in some way. It's OK though. Keep an eye on her as you are and tempt her with any foods that might work. Probably when the C lets up she will recover her appetite.

mom2twoangels Apprentice

HI,

Thanks, I think I will call before I give her that kind again.

She had three terrible diapers (won't go into it) and then she started eating again. I guess I'll never know why.

Other than prior to her Celiac diagnosis and when she was little and we discovered a couple of food intolerances she is typically pretty consistant within certain limits.

I guess that is why my brain jumps to foods.

At least she's eating now - thanks again,

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