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Thanks so much! What do you gals think about oats? I've been SO hesitant to feed her anything with oats - even if it says 'made with wheat free ingredients'. Do oats have gluten actually in them or is gluten a contaminate that occurs in the processing of oats? Sorry for all the questions ...I just have so many though!

Thanks so much for all of your opinions! The allergy test we had done were just the 'scratch' test or 'skin' test on her back. It was absolutely horrible! How do you go about testing for the celiac gene? That may be something we'll look at in the future. As for putting her back on gluten to have any other test done, I just don't have the heart to do that...

Our daughter had what we thought were allergies since she was a baby. She was born at a normal weight, but by 18 months was labeled failure to thrive. Now at 2 yrs old she is at the 70% for both height and weight. She had stuffy ears, very very loose mucousy stool (exclusively breastfed) and always had the reddest cheeks and runny eyes and nose - so we...