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Thank you all again for the support and feedback. Lauren's sleep is so very disturbed that I really believe that something else is going on with her. It is not getting any better, either - if anything, it is getting worse. Except for our 24 hours experiment back on gluten, she is absolutely gluten free. I watch everything she eats like a hawk and have...

AMQmom, Worriedtodeath and gfgypsyqueen - thank you for sharing your stories. It helps me to make a better decision for my daughter. Ursa Major - you make very good points and I appreciate your feedback. Lauren eats only incidental soy (some soybean oil and soy lecithin) but I can consider getting rid of that, as well. It also helps me make a better...

My 2 1/2 year old daughter had a positive IgA and Ttg gluten panel with Enterolab and a malabsorption (fecal fat) score in the severe range. She has been gluten free for three months. Many of her issues have resolved but she still has very disturbed sleep at night, waking 2-8 times per night. She has been dairy free her entire life. She saw a pediatric...

I have four kids, ages 12, 7, 5, and 2. The three youngest and I are gluten free so our home is gluten-free. I am struggling, too, with keeping up with the cooking. Everything is made from scratch pretty much. I cook in bulk (homemade chicken nuggets with gluten-free flour) and we eat them for several days. Boiled eggs, nuts, fruits and cooked veggies...

I second testing for B12. You can be in the low normal range and still have some nasty symptoms. It happened to me. I am on B12 weekly self injections and it helps so much.

We did the enterolab testing - see my siggie for results. We also have had good results on the gluten-free diet. The most marked improvements have been with my 28month old. I needed the concrete information provided by enterolab in order to wrap my brain around this and take us all gluten-free. I'm glad I got the testing and I'm glad we are gluten-free...

He was already off of dairy and I took him off soy, corn and eggs on Saturday. I am treating the rash with his prescription ointment and it is looking much better. Once we clear it, I will trial one food at a time by reintroducing them. My experience has been that the eczema shows up within 24 hours or so of an exposure. I figured this out with dairy...

I have been udsing a prescription ointment on the rash and it is looking better. The issue is finding the trigger so we can avoid it coming back. I will work on healing it up while doing the dietary chanmges. Thank you for all the advice and help.

Thanks for the feedback. I will look into soaps at school. I have decided to remove eggs, corn and soy and see what happens. He is in agreement, as he wants to resolve the rash. We will only eat the plain Stax chips, as those are made on dedicated lines. I will keep his diet as whole foods as possible for a week or two and see if it makes a difference...

He takes benadryl at times for the rash and I will check it. Otherwise, he is not on any meds. His vitamins are gluten-free. He rarely uses play doh and the other things. We have no pets. Our home is gluten-free and I think it is almost impossible for anyone to have snuck him a treat. He is very aware of gluten being an issue and refuses food given...

Not sure why my pictures aren't showing up. Maybe a mod can help me....

My son has been stricly gluten-free since 1-4-08. He has had some degree of eczema most of his life. A week after going gluten-free, it cleared almost totally and then a few days later came back worse than ever. I don't think it is dh - it doesn't look like the pics and has no fluid filled blisters. He is dairy free, as well, and has been for years. ...

Thank you for the feedback. Our home is gluten-free and we have given up eating out so the chance of cc is really low. I have replaced cc cookware and such. He is only moisturized with plain coconut oil - no soaps or lotions. Maybe it will just take him longer to heal up. I believe I will get rid of all soy, too, though it is incidental for the most...

My five year old son has been gluten-free since 1-4-08. He has had eczema most of his life. He has been dairy free for two years. We eat very little soy. Now he is off gluten. About a week after going gluten free, his eczema was miraculously almost gone. Then a few days later it was back as bad as it has ever been. I am puzzled. Is this detoxing?...

The only person I trust to cook for my kids is my dad, who is a long term gluten-free celiac himself. His whole house is gluten-free. It is nice knowing he knows what is safe for them and won't make any mistakes. I get panicky about restaurants, too. We are new at this - about 6 weeks into it - so some of this may be just me getting comfortable with what...