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What Food To Challenge With?

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salexander421 Enthusiast
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We are going to try a gluten challenge with our almost 3 year old daughter. All the GI said was to start with one serving and if she does ok increase to 3 servings. What would be the best food to challenge with? She does not tolerate dairy, eggs, or soy so it would need to be something without those things. Would a piece of gluten bread be the most likely choice? Sorry if this is a silly question, guess I should have asked the GI huh? :P

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T.H. Community Regular
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Are you concerned about not having enough gluten, or about having too much? If the concern is wanting to have enough to show a reaction, then if you can find a dairy/soy/egg free version, I'd go for pizza crust. They make a lot of pizza crust with special high-gluten flour. If that doesn't set off on a challenge, I don't know what will!

tarnalberry Community Regular
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bagel, if you can find a egg and dairy free one, would be my first choice.

then whole wheat bread.

or cream of wheat (made with a milk sub or water).

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I would go with pasta because all that's in it is flour and water. There is no yeast to confuse the issue. Cream of wheat would be fine too.

salexander421 Enthusiast
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'm wanting to make sure she gets enough to make the tests valid, I know this is not going to be a fun process and I want to make it count. She's very sensitive, she has been reacting to possible cross contamination in a few things I thought were gluten free (some even labeled as such). I think we'll start with a piece of bread and see how that goes, the GI wants us to do a little for a weak and then increase to 3 servings a day which seems like a lot but I don't want to have to redo the process further down the road just because we didn't do it right. Pizza is a great idea but I don't want to contaminate my kitchen with gluten flour and our access to allergy friendly foods is very limited. We may try cream of wheat in the mornings if my girly will eat it, she's very picky :P

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Pasta is a great idea too! My gilry loves pasta!

T.H. Community Regular
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If you do decide on bread, french bread might be a good one to try. It typically doesn't have any dairy (my son was diary intolerant, so we used to get this a lot) and most don't have eggs added, either, so that cuts down on other allergens that might interfere in the testing.

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Thanks for the suggestions! I'm wanting to make sure she gets enough to make the tests valid, I know this is not going to be a fun process and I want to make it count. She's very sensitive, she has been reacting to possible cross contamination in a few things I thought were gluten free (some even labeled as such). I think we'll start with a piece of bread and see how that goes, the GI wants us to do a little for a weak and then increase to 3 servings a day which seems like a lot but I don't want to have to redo the process further down the road just because we didn't do it right. Pizza is a great idea but I don't want to contaminate my kitchen with gluten flour and our access to allergy friendly foods is very limited. We may try cream of wheat in the mornings if my girly will eat it, she's very picky :P

I think Amy's makes a allergen free frozen pizza you just have to cook in the oven. It should not contaminate more than the oven rack, and you can wipe that off when it cools.

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