Monday, 14 July 2008
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Aw Crap
by Mama HippoLiterally.
So about a month ago we discovered that D has a dairy allergy (different from a lactose intolerance). We found this out thanks to blood in his stools. Since then I've cut out all dairy, as well as beef products and soy as both of those can have proteins similar to that which children react to in dairy products and so are best avoided (as per my pediatrician's recommendation). D's diapers have since been fine.
Till last Friday. He had one poopy diaper that has blood and quite a bit of mucous in it (I know, sorry, but then again you're not the one spending 10 minutes inspecting said diaper... unless you've been in our same situation, in which case I empathize). Then he had 2 more that had less blood, but still some. I'm raking my brain trying to think of what I've eaten in the past few days and I've come up with 2 possible culprits: 1) The beef in the ravioli that I had on the plane ride back to Switzerland, which I didn't even think about at the time (partially b/c I'm pretty sure the other option, with chicken, would have included dairy products), or 2) the small bag of pecans I ate when we got home, as we had almost no other food in the house.
It'd be nice to know which of the 2 (if either) caused the problem, so for now I'll avoid each, see how things go, then try eating pecans again. I know I should probably just avoid all nuts (already cut out peanuts, just to be safe) but I truly love nuts, especially pecans, and they're a nice snacky food to have that's also a good source of protein.
Another option, which for now I'm not dignifying with any serious consideration, is that he could have started reacting to bread/wheat products. I was eating wheat while in the US, but since our return have been pretty heavy with it (pasta and bread as main meal staples). It would really really really suck if this turned out to be the case, as obviously I have a pretty wheat-heavy diet and always have, and would be tough to cut out. Which is why I'm not really considering this as a serious option yet. And crossing my fingers.Do any of your kids have food allergies? When did they start to develop them?
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Comments (5)
We won't know for a while yet, but I really hope not. With Tim's diabetes, our diet is rather limited to begin with. Life was hellish when I went throught that stage of meat and leafy greens being disgusting to me. I ended up cooking one thing for Tim and a completely different meal for myself each night. Not an ideal situation.
My kids both had the milk protein allergy when they were nursing as well (they grew out of by around 2 years of age). It is so hard to figure it all out! One thing that a doctor told me was that dairy can hang around in your body and theirs for about 2 weeks. So your baby's reaction may not have been to something you ate the day before, it just may be residual. Good luck! I know how hard it is!
My oldest has a peanut allergy, discovered at the age of 13 months after a peanut butter covered cracker. It's not the end of the world but it's hard to convince grandparents to double check everything for peanuts. They have a really hard time accepting the fact that she can't even have foods processed on equipment that handles peanuts. Besides the initial incident that landed us in the ER, we've had 3 incidents. Benadryl takes care of it, but we have the Epi-Pen just in case. I completely sympathize with you...allergies are a tough one.
Looks like a barley allergy/intolerance? The first time M threw up....A LOT. That was baby food. She had something with malted barley flour in it, and her face started swelling up with hives or some kind of rash. I'm sad because I was going to give her a piece of muffin the other day and I checked the ingredients. Sure enough, there was malted barley flour in it. Hopefully, she will grow out of it. As a Pre-K teacher, we've gotten a lot of pressure from both parents of allergy kids and parents of non-allergy kids as to what foods we allow in our classroom. And then, they come back to pick up their younger siblings after heading off to kindergarten...and what do they have with them? A bag of peanut M&Ms. "I thought you were allergic peanuts." shrug "I don't know...my mom said I can eat these peanuts." This coming from a kid whose parents had a freakout over a treat bag from another parent with peanut product in it. Most of them grow out of their allergies it seems.
I am totally in the same shoes as you. My son is only 15 months old, but already we've discovered (through blood tests) that he is allergic to milk (dairy), eggs, wheat, soy, and peanuts. I'm completely baffled as to how he became allergic since I have no food allergies, and his dad only has environmental allergies. It definitely has been a struggle for me to find him a variety of foods that he can eat without him puffing up and breaking out into hives, but we're getting there. I hope you find out what is causing the problem in his stools and hopefully he will be able to grow out of it! :)