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She's Bloated Again!


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My daughter has been gluten free for about a month. A week into the diet, her bloated belly went down to half the size. I am SO careful with what she eats. Her teachers have instructions to feed her NOTHING aside from what I give her and I am SO careful preparing her food and such. Today her stomach is HUGE! I'm a cabillion percent sure she's not eating gluten. She also has reflux and a milk allergy and is on zantac for the reflux. What gives???


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I'm sorry. My dd's belly has been bloated every day since she was about 6 months old. I didn't realize it was bloated until recently when the bloat finally went away. It was an amazing change. She gets bloated again though when she gets gluten. Maybe some cc happened?

BeHappy Apprentice

How soon after she had gluten did she bloat up? Days? hours? minutes?

norahsmommy Enthusiast

she was bloated last time by the end of the day. It was like she filled up with gas. The next day she was bloated and farting constantly. Then she was constipated for 2 days and had a hard painful stool. Then she went back to normal. That was pretty mild. She only had a little bit of gluten. (3 mcdonalds french fries that they dust with flour.)

BeHappy Apprentice

Did she get the munchies? My daughter ate almost a full loaf of rice bread today and she usually barely eats!!

(I'm trying to figure out if all these little things are connected)

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