Dairy back to children’s diet
Our 3 yr old son recently visited a Pedi. GI Doc. to be tested for CeliacDisease. She stated that since we had been gfcf for 5 months, his gut shouldhave healed enough to reintroduce dairy products. So we added dairy back to all3 of our small children’s diet. Our 15 month old twins, we added a littleeggnogg to their Darifree drink. Then we gave a few bites of cottagecheese….with in a few hours, the boy twin broke out in hives. That was theeasy to identify response. Our 3 yr olds reaction was more intense….he becameextremely aggressive with the twins…pinching, kicking, and punching them. Heusually responds, “Yes Maam/Sir”….now, he shouts, “NO!!!” He becameoutrageously defiant. We have to repeat directions to him over and over andover again. He became hyperactive….jumping and running…and jabbering innonsense/intelligible language.
Needless to say we are back to casien free….but his return to his old/newnormal self has been slow coming. Drats!!! Has anyone had similar experience oram I just over anylizing all of this. (Twin girl had NO reaction; but boy twinsteals her sippy cups….so everyone back on the course of GFCF again.
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Salvatore Thangavelu said,
Wrote on January 21, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
My son has been GFCF for over 12 YEARS. We assume this will be a lifetimething. To be honest, he probably gets small amounts of gluten–white vinegar incondiments, etc. But he avoids dairy like the plague. (He’s allergic to it.)
Once, while we were on vacation in Vermont and decided to visit a dairy farm. (Bad idea.) They were making homemade ice cream that day and were passing outsamples. “What harm would one little bite do?” we thought. My son felt sohorrible afterwards that he vowed never to consume dairy again.
Marc Krasnow said,
Wrote on January 22, 2007 @ 12:32 am
It didn’t last long. Our 7 year old who has been gfcf for 1 year didfine as far as we can tell, but our 4 year old started havingaccidents after about 2 days. The nutritionist at our doctor’soffice said we should have started with goats milk cheese first, butI was thinking maybe we could try rice cheese. Anyway, we stoppedthe dairy. I’ll reintroduce it to my 7 year old after we trygluten. I looked at the girls’ blood allergy test results for foodthat we did 2 years ago and it showed our 4 year old was veryallergic to dairy and our 7 year old was not. Of course I haven’thelped the situation b/c I’ve been giving our 4 year old ghee. Maybeif I take out all dairy for another year she will get better.Anyway, 6 days ago we started introducing gluten and both girls havedone fine. Their blood allergy test results showed they had noallergy to any gluten so we will see. Maybe they never had a problemdigesting it or maybe they did and they their guts are healed? I’mstill skeptical b/c of all the horror stories I’ve heard aboutreintroducing gluten and casein but I’m SO hopeful!!!
Colette Gretzinger said,
Wrote on January 23, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
I think in your case , as you are reintroducing gluten and dairy , I wouldgive them enzymes. If you are not doing so already. We are waiting for mysons test to come back. We started him on the diet before we ever did anyallergy test. So if his test come back that he is not allergic to gluten ordairy, we might start introducing these things back slowly as long as we aregiving him enzymes. The enzymes are very important to break down the food.
Anamaria Penington said,
Wrote on January 24, 2007 @ 6:31 am
When we were gfcf several years ago, my son was fed something while atvisitation withdad, and about an hour later, he had a food allergy welt the size of an egg onhisforehead, and I took pictures of him with it to show the docs. And when we oncetried aglass of milk after 6 months of without on my youngest son, he immediatelystartedheadstands in the furniture and running into us. Something we had not seen for6months. that was just a test.
Antone Ybarro said,
Wrote on January 25, 2007 @ 4:32 am
We have been using raw milk with much sucess. But we did have asimiliar experince with processed dairy. I typically keep raw milkcheese for the kids and my husband keeps a small amount of processedamerican cheese for himself (for sanwiches for work). Well my mombabysat last night and my middle son (nonverbal) asked for cheese andshe didn’t realize he could not have the processed cheese. He ate afew peices and by the time I got home he was doing the posture oftummy problems (knee pulled up and asleep). He woke up numerous timesin the night screaming, the first time he woke I gave him charcoal inhopes or avoiding a full blown problem. This morning he was stillhaving some problems then he had a nasty poop and when I changed himhe had his typical allergy rash (really red ring around the anus andjust splothchy skin all around his private areas).
I am sad he had to go through that, but I do at this point feel peaceabout using raw milk because he hasn’t had any reactions like thatusing it. Processed milk is a definate no-no though. So if you dodecide to try re-adding again consider using unprocessed raw milk,maybe they will tolerate it better.