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Update: Guess I'm leaving this forum as quickly as I joined it. We took our son to the ER during his most recent vomiting episode and they drew labs while he was ill. We've now been referred to a geneticist. It appears he experiences episodic lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis (they have conclusively ruled out diabetes), and we're just keeping our fingers...

Okay, hypothetically, let's say the GI wants to biopsy and we have to feed him bread. The last time I knowingly gave him bread he ended up in the pediatric ER. Is it worth it? I can't put him through vomiting on purpose. He doesn't deserve that.

Thanks. You sound knowledgeable and honestly you can still help me I bet... does it sound like celiac? Is it worth having him scoped? Doing a gluten challenge? And I guess I need to vent too. He has never been "glutened" in our home. We do have gluten products, but we are all very careful to never cross-contaminate with his food. He has his own pantry...

Sorry I didn't see the last part of that. I should ask about Zofran, thanks! Okay, that makes me a bit more certain then. It's never immediately after eating the (possible) offending food, but also never more than 14 hours later that he gets sick. Usually the time between there he's sleeping or not eating anything else. The thing is he is a toddler...

None of the other kids from the party were or are sick, and this is something that happens to him about every 4-5 weeks. It's exactly the same every time, except for the amount of time before he gets sick. Every 4-5 weeks we eat out somewhere, I think I've been careful, but I wasn't totally vigilant. Then between 3 and 12 hours later he vomits for 5 hours...

Background: My son is almost 3 years old. He weighs about 25 pounds, which is barely on the weight chart for kids his age. We cut out gluten when he was 14 months (he wasn't even on the weight chart at that time) and he started gaining better but he's still very very thin. I've never met or even heard of a healthy child who is as light as he is. About...