New Mama

Thank you for sharing your story. It's tough when kids are older and just don't believe that food can really have such a big effect on you. My nephew is nineteen, has ADD and psoriasis and numerous other issues and I really think his problems are dietary in nature -- or at least that they could be much relieved by a change in diet. But he scoffs at his mother...

Some friends whose son turned two a few months ago isn't really talking much. They took him in to be evaluated and they think he has Childhood Apraxia of Speech. I'm wondering if there isn't a connection to gluten (of course, I think EVERY disorder has a connection to gluten, lol). He is very small for his age, had weird rashy stuff on his face/scalp for...

The two times I've cut out carbs I felt exactly this same way the following morning. My husband had to bring me food before I could even get out of bed. The whole next day I felt weak and my stomach hurt a bit. I'd say it's cutting out the carbs and not just the gluten. HTH!

Lolabell, I am so sorry about your son. Just today a friend whose family was over last weekend called to tell us that they think their younger daughter (who had not yet received the MMR) has the measles. We don't vax, as I mentioned, and I'm not super worried about it because I'd rather my son get it now than when he's a teen or an adult. If he starts...

I have not had my son (almost two) immunized at all and I don't plan to. There are lots of other parents out there like me, too. I've heard too many horror stories and am not convinced that the pharmaceutical companies are acting in our children's best interests. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're not.

No, I haven't. But I have been feeling this way for a long time, in winter (in Wisconsin) too.

I did replace the colander. I recently had some bloodwork done to check for anemia and my thyroid, among other things. It wasn't a "fasting" test, though. Is that more accurate? I'm actually currently working on the hypothesis that it's yeast overgrowth and am doing Bee's Candida Diet. If that doesn't seem to be working I'll go back to my doctor...

We used EnteroLabs for my son, who is almost two. He had bumps on his cheeks and upper arms as well as red scaly patches all over his body. EL said he was gluten- and casein intolerant. We took him off dairy first and the red patches mostly cleared up. Then we took him off gluten and the bumps on his cheeks went away; the bumps on his arms are less than they...

Bumping...anyone?

I haven't been diagnosed as GI/CI, but my son was (through EnteroLab), and since he's still nursing I thought I'd better go gluten-free/CF along with him. I do suspect I am GI as well. Some of my "symptoms" were light-headness and weakness. After going gluten-free a few months ago I immediately felt better, but now I'm feeling that way again. It's worse...

My son was recently diagnosed as gluten intolerant through EnteroLab -- he's now 22 months. I wish I had figured it out sooner. He was exclusively breastfed until nine months and his first few months were pretty rough. I tried eliminating foods (and since I was eating a vegan diet at the time, this was NOT FUN -- I was so hungry and skinny) but although I...

Well, we did the package test for my son through EnteroLab because I wanted to be thorough, and he came back as sensitive to casein. We already knew this, though, both because an IgG test had told us and because he'd had red ezcema-like patches all over his body that went away when we went dairy-free. I don't know about the soy, but I'm considering having...

Fecal Antigliadin IgA 249 (Normal Range Fecal Antitissue Transglutaminase IgA 175 Units (Normal Range Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score Fecal anti-casein (cow's milk) IgA antibody 199 Units (Normal Range HLA-DQB1 Molecular analysis, Allele 1 0301 HLA-DQB1 Molecular analysis, Allele 2 0602 Serologic equivalent...

I haven't been tested, but I believe I am gluten intolerant. My 22-month old son was tested though, and it came out positive. I had trouble getting pregnant (I didn't ovulate on my own) and we did in vitro -- I found out later that not getting a period was a major symptom of celiac disease/gluten intolerance. I went gluten free and took major supplements...

Okay...what else has gluten in it, that I'd never expect? Sheesh. I have not been diagnosed with celiac/GI, but my son was recently, and since he's still nursing I went gluten-free/CF too. And I do think I'm GI, since I've had all kinds of weird symptoms throughout the years (ramping up since my son was born almost two years ago). So...tonight DH cooked...