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    I really enjoyed "Is this Your Child" by Doris Rapp. It answered alot of questions we had about food sensitivities. Symptoms can be anything from rashes, red cheeks and ears to behaviour difficulties, reading problems and just plain zoning out. 90 percent of sensitive people are bothered by the same things: gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, soy, peanuts and...
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    I put my daughter in a sling and wore her. She was close when she needed to be and I could still get things done.
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    My grandson said his first words at six months and lost them almost immediately. He was nursing exclusively except for cheerios because that's all he'd eat when he was hospitalized with a raised fontanelle at 10 months. We took him off gluten because we found out his Mom was gluten intolerant and we had no obvious symptoms until we put him back on gluten...
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    If school lunches are the problem I would concentrate on making her lunch enviable. I would buy a soup thermos and fill it with her favourites and put in a fancy napkin and her own special utensils. Recipezaar has tons of good gluten free recipes. Someone else suggested sending in enough for everyone and I think that's a great idea. Cupcakes or mini...
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    I'm from the "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure" school of thought as well. He's never had gluten foods so he doesn't feel like he's missing anything and if he takes his own food to preschool right from the start, it won't seem unusual to him.
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    We found out after the fact that my grandson's extreme colic was caused by his exclusively nursing Mom eating gluten and dairy, so a trial removal couldn't hurt. I would also suggest looking at www.blyum.com in case there are physical reasons for the choking resulting from his prematurity. The sooner you start, if that is the case, the better and quicker...
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    Someone just published a gluten free play dough recipe on Recipezaar.com. I've never tried it myself but it's the same recipe I've seen before and others have said it works well.
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    I try to keep gluten free baking in the freezer at all times. I like to have two different cookies, and two kinds of muffins. I also make big batches of pancakes and bread two loaves at a time. With quick and tasty choices available, we're less likely to want to cheat. My grandson actually prefers his cookies frozen.
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    Rashes are caused by something. If it's not from soaps or creams than it's from the diet and doesn't necessarily have to be from gluten. A food diary is a great idea because the rash could be triggered a day or two before it exibits. The most common triggers besides gluten are: dairy, corn, soy, eggs, nightshades and nuts.
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    Pink cheeks and/or ears are a sign that a child has recently eaten something they are sensitive too. I highly recommend "Is this Your Child" by Doris Rapp. It answered a lot of questions for us about food sensitivities that no one else could. caek_is_a_lie it sounds like your son is sensitive to gluten. Foods are chemicals to our bodies and when we consume...
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    Milk allergies run in my family with addition to the wheat intolerance and from what you've said I'd be suspicious of the milk. Has she ever had ear infections? Melt downs? Trouble hearing? I'd suggest switching the milk with a fortified rice milk while you're pursuing the gluten testing. Both my sister and daughter have extreme milk intolerances and...
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    I found this on a Doctors forum If your child has repeated strep throats, it is possible that they may be a strep carrier. This can be confirmed by a positive strep test when they are feeling well without any sore throat. If he/she is a carrier, then the strep test is not useful to guide treatment for a sore throat since strep may simply be an
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    I would do a gluten challenge as well. It's non-invasive and changes are fast and obvious. In my experience, many people don't know how good they can feel until they get off gluten.
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    I smoked for twenty-five years and couldn't quit for good regardless to how hard, or what I tried, until I bought "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" by Alan Carr. Everyone I've given the book to has successfully quit as well. I had been successful for 9 months on the patch and 3 months on the pill but always went back before I found that book.
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    We went looking for a cause when my twenty-five year old daughter found a quarter sized bald spot. What we ended up finding out was that the hair loss was a result of the low thyroid she has from having an undiagnosed wheat intolerance.
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    I would take him off gluten without waiting for the biopsy. I think the medical profession is too casual about recommending continued consumption of something that is obviously poison to that person's chemistry.
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    Trying to figure out food sensitivites has to be THE most frustrating thing. I was so relieved to find "Is this Your Child" by Doris Rapp. She is a very experienced allergist and clearly spells out what to look for in your child from red ears to nose rubbing.
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    I third the hypoglycemia suggestion. The advice a friend got from her Doctor for her daughter was to give her a well balanced snack every two hours or so. It elimated the sick tummy, dizzy spells and the headaches she was getting.
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    My favourite baking book by far is Gluten Free Baking Classics by Annalise Roberts. I've never had a failure using any of her rice mix recipes. We can't make her bread because we are millet and sorghum sensitive as well but everyone that makes them, loves them. I find recipezaar.com to be invaluable for gluten free recipes and I love that the reviews are...
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    Have you thought about getting him to keep a food diary? That's what we finally had to do to nail down my grandson's soy intolerance. If what he's reacting to in only an ingredient in other foods in can be an invaluable tool.
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    I wouldn't do a biopsy. I'd remove gluten for a month and see if it makes a difference. At that age the damage may not be that extensive and the biopsy could be falsley negative anyway.
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    I think all "colic" is Mom eating something that doesn't agree with baby.
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    Two of my sisters and my daughter all had terrible appetites. Turns out, now that we're investigating food intolerances in the next generation, that it was most likely milk that was badly affecting all of them. We were having trouble getting my four year old Grandson to eat anything but yogurt, cottage cheese and milk just like his mom and aunts so we took...
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    She ate fine then stopped?
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    Our four year old drinks mostly water. We do use juice for smoothies becaue he's casein free as well. Have you tried pear, apricot nectur or guava juice? We've been very successful with those three.
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