[Our son had some of the same symptons that your daughter has and an aunt suspected that he had celiac disease. We had already talked to our pediatrician who blew off his symptons. To make a long story short we did a stool sample test with Dr. Fine (finerheath.com or enterolab.com)out of Dallas Texas to test for the celiac disease and gene test. At the time he also gave us a free dairy/casein test. It was very reasonable, our insurance reimbursed us, it was non-invasive and we didn't have to travel anywhere. He himself has celiac disease and does some testing that is done in Europe but not here yet. It seems that half of the people that I have met with celiac disease have been diagnosed with him. We then took the results to our family doctor and implemeted the diet right away. We were impressed with the results as was our doctor. After a while we realized that he was still reacting to some food in his diet so we did a blood test with York labs in Florida to test for food intolerances. We then found that he had other problems with egg whites, mustard and almond. I would really encourage you to look into this testing. I have read in various places that children often do strange, out of character things to satisfy their cravings for foods that their bodies can not handle. My son could not put enough mustard on his food or eat enough bread! Some thing to think about. I wish you well and hope that Dr. Fine's web site can be of some help to you. Our family would highly recommend it.
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[Our son had some of the same symptons that your daughter has and an aunt suspected that he had celiac disease. We had already talked to our pediatrician who blew off his symptons. To make a long story short we did a stool sample test with Dr. Fine (finerheath.com or enterolab.com)out of Dallas Texas to test for the celiac disease and gene test. At the time he also gave us a free dairy/casein test. It was very reasonable, our insurance reimbursed us, it was non-invasive and we didn't have to travel anywhere. He himself has celiac disease and does some testing that is done in Europe but not here yet. It seems that half of the people that I have met with celiac disease have been diagnosed with him. We then took the results to our family doctor and implemeted the diet right away. We were impressed with the results as was our doctor. After a while we realized that he was still reacting to some food in his diet so we did a blood test with York labs in Florida to test for food intolerances. We then found that he had other problems with egg whites, mustard and almond. I would really encourage you to look into this testing. I have read in various places that children often do strange, out of character things to satisfy their cravings for foods that their bodies can not handle. My son could not put enough mustard on his food or eat enough bread! Some thing to think about. I wish you well and hope that Dr. Fine's web site can be of some help to you. Our family would highly recommend it.