Daniebella

2. IMO I would not have you go gluten-free until you are done nursing, or until our son shows signs of a reaction or possible problem. When you go gluten-free and get glutened, your son will most likely have the same awful reaction that you are having. (Think you and baby both sick with awful flu like cold. Bad enough you, but then no patience for dealing with him miserable too..) As I said, just my opinion. Once he is eating cereal, you might see a change in him that would require you both to go get tested. Who knows.

I am responding to what you said above, as my doctor did advise me to go gluten free because I was nursing (But my baby WAS showing symptoms) - anyway, my question is, is there a danger in going free (besides giving up yummy food?) Do you get more sick if you have gluten after not having had it for a while??

Hi, I'm about in the same spot - allergy test was neg for my 17 month old son, but waiting for blood tests. My naturopath said that you can stil lhave wheat and/or gluten intolerance that causes the symtpoms you are mentioning, even when blood tests ar enegative, the best way to know is to go lguten free and see if she gets better - we did and he is dramatically better, (and gets everythign back when we miss something). I am still nursing him, and have now gone off gluten as well as the Sam ND told me it can go through breast milk and I should try to avoid it .

hope that helps!

Daniela

Hi all...I'm new here! My name is Stephanie and I have two little ones. My daughter, Ali, is 17 months and my son, John, is just 6 weeks.

The reason I'm here is my little girl...we're expecting blood test results back sometime this afternoon to see whether she has Celiac. My sister and niece were both diagnosed almost 10 years ago, so we won't be at all surprised if Ali tests positive.

Ali has had multiple loose stools everyday (8-10 a day) for about six months now. Since March she's had a rash on her face and diaper area that we were told was just a yeast infection, but we suspect it my actually be DH. She's seriously under weight (just 19 lbs) yet still has a very poochy tummy. We've been through a number of pediatricians at our local military hospital (my husband is active duty Air Force) and have been told many different things. It's beginning to get my really angry dealing with all of this! My poor baby has had so many different medications and none of them do anything. It makes me cry when we're walking to her room to change her diaper and she starts to cry because she's anticipating the pain. Does this sound like Celiac??

Our next step for Ali is to see a dermitoglist since we were given the referral. I'm not sure where that will take us, but at least it's a civilian doc and not from the base clinic.

My others questions: Should I be tested? I don't have symptoms really, but I'm assuming she got it from me. Also, at what age can my son be tested? He's exclusively breastfed and I hope to keep it that way for as long as possible. Should I go on gluten-free diet while I'm nursing? He doesn't seem to show any sensitivity at all, but I don't want to make him sick.

Thanks in advance for my listening to me ramble on and on in frustration!

Wow, thank you all for your responses! The most dissappointing part was that this latest doctor was not even our regular family practioner (who is now at least somwhat onboard after I told her the resutls of the elimination diet) but was an allergy specialist. It seems more and more, Western medicine (vs something liek a naturopath) specializes in one field (family practice, allergy, etc) and if it doesn't fall within an easy category, it's :just an infection." I didn't put my son on antibiotics because he has had so many over the last year and I think over his lifeti,e that will just make things worse for him - and I don't think he has a sinus infection. I will try what you have suggested. Any good boks out there?

Thank you,

Daniela

I'm new to this, soplease excuse me if this is already cocered ground. My son is 17 motnhs old and has thick, yellow runny nose/congestion since he was 6 months old (which is also when we introduced solid food). He is still rbeastfeeding, but had been eating almost everything else (with an emphasis fo healthy foods like whole wheat bread - what did I know?). He also had frequen diarrhea that got worse and worse, and the upper respiratory congestion led to ear infections, bronchilitis, etc. Tired of hearing that he had 'just another virus' due to his sister being in preschool (she wasn't sick), I took him to a naturopath who listened to me and asked me to cut out wheat and dairy for 3 weeks. he had never had dairy (my daughter did nto tolerate it, so we al ljust go without for the most part) so that was easy. The wheat was a bit harder, but he improved dramatically. When put back on wheat, all symptoms returned, so we took him back off two days later, and 4 days later he was again symptom free. We are stil lelarning what to avoid, so 2 slip-ups brought symptoms back, which gave us several cycles of wheat/no wheat to make it pretty clear to us that he has a sensitivity. I took him to an allergy clinic to try to figure out whether it was wheat or all gluten or Celiac's, and they did the skin-prick test, which was negative for a wheat allergy (but positive for peanuts - yikes).

So, the dr then told me that my son must have just had a year long sinus unfection which caused diarrhea. I felt frustrated by this, and asked about Celiacs, ar which point he then gave me an antibiotic prescription for th 'sinus infection' and a blood draw for gluten sensitivity. I am waiting to hear back, but feeling a bit unsure. I am going to keep my son (and myself since he nurses a lot still) off of gluten until the tests come back, but I am getting mroe confused rather than finding clarity. Help!