I’m a Food Sensitivity Follower
F has been a real over-achiever in the diaper rash area. I don’t want to brag here but my kid can manifest a diaper rash simply on contact. Some kids need to sit in their own waste for a while but mine gets right on it and rashes herself right up. Throw in her propensity for yeast rashes and you’ve got a child with a future in rash generation.
I knew that tomatoes were a culprit; feed her anything with tomatoes and she spends the next week miserably rashy. I decided not to play around with food issue guessing games and just had her tested for food sensitivities. She tested positive for corn, strawberries, tomatoes, mangoes, cow dairy, baker’s yeast and eggs. We have stripped those out from her diet and, because I am still nursing, from my diet as well. The working theory is that the antibiotics she was on for the first 2 days of her life knocked out the beneficial bacteria in her gut as well as the bad guys and she has never managed to reestablish a healthy gut. She’s on fish oil to try to help her do that. We go back in a month to retest her and see whether I can reintroduce any items into our diets.
Can I tell you how much I want a rich, fresh-from-the-oven loaf of egg bread dripping in butter right now with an ice cold glass of milk to go with it?
I feel like such a follower. Everyone has food sensitives these days; it’s the trendy problem of the year. But, really, a future in rash generation? Does that even pay more than minimum wage?
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April 17th, 2008 08:41
My oldest was allergic to any dairy - if I ate it, he ended up with wailing stomach aches and bloody stools. All I craved was milk. In fact, when they finally figured out why he was so unhappy, I was averaging 1/2 a gallon a day. I totally understand how frustrating it is. There’s nothing like being told you can’t have something; makes it all the more enticing! Cass outgrew his sensitivity within a year - we didn’t find out until he grabbed another child’s sippy and started swigging milk! Good luck.
Hang in there - you have lots on your plate right now.
April 17th, 2008 12:05
I am sorry for you both, even if she has developed mad rashing skillz. Here’s to her growing better gut fauna soon so you can both get on with Normal Eating.
April 17th, 2008 12:40
Know why everyone’s doing food sensitivities? Because we’re flushing a huge proportion (upwards of 60%, in the US) of laboring women and neonates with antibiotics whether or not they need them. You and yours? Needed them.
Establishing this as early as you have is a good way to go. Are you able to get her some soy yogurt to help with the beneficial colonization? (And I’m not talking imperialism!)