This is the same info I pasted in the olive oil thread but I wanted to post separately to try and get help with where to go from this point...
DH had a touch of something on Saturday. He carried a fever around 99.4-100.4 for 3-4 days or so; a few upper respiratory symptoms and a few body aches. I had a 99.2 fever on Saturday too, but no glaringly obvious symptoms other than feeling a little tired and he seemed to drop to normal really quickly. I don't think DS ran a fever (I only checked once) and he acted normal ... but he did have a bit of a runny bowel movement that day. It correlated with the day we gave him a little flax oil and prune juice so we attributed it to that. Then he didn't poop for 2 days. When he did, it was *really* runny. It wasn't frequent (just 2 movements each day or so) and it wasn't really diarrhea - not watery but like baby poop (pudding texture). There was no rash or allergy signs with the poops and since we had increased fats, I thought maybe that was *his* way of reacting to that plus whatever bug we may have had - but then last night he had a bit of soreness with the poop so now I'm confused. Could be bug, could be related to the consistency being irritating, could be the olive oil, could be the rice milk - aaah! How can there be so many possibilities with so little change in our diet? Update: The soreness seems to have gone today so far (even with a little smeary poo that came out.)
We got DS' IgG results today. Wheat, Gluten (gliaden), Milk were are 2 and on the avoid list. Corn, Carrot, Sunflower Seed, Egg White were between 0 and 1. So, again, we're not sure what to do from here. We're eating carrot and sunflower now and not a lot of variety yet. Do we introduce new stuff in the middle of the reaction that we aren't terribly suspicious of and are 0 reaction on the igG to diversify (and cut back or out the carrots and sunflower)? Or do we wait until the runny poos stop? He has only had one tiny, little smeary poo today but it looked the same consistency. This is only the second time he has ever had runny bowel movements since he started having formed stools and the first time only lasted 5 hours.
One thing we are a little suspicious of, after research, is the Rice Dream rice milk, which is labeled gluten free but apparently processed with Barley. We did eat more of that than usual, as well as some olive oil. The company that makes the olive oil responded to a query saying that they independently assess all of their oils for composition in a laboratory setting. Whether this is truthful or not... I dunno. I have some in the fridge to see if it solidifies.
We're surprised that the nightshades (potato particularly) didn't show up on the IgG but then again, it might be that he is reacting to the glycoalkaloid content -- or maybe the test just missed it? Soy was the only other thing we suspected but also didn't show up on the IgG.
For what is worth, my results showed egg white, lentils (2), milk and egg yolk (1). DH's showed yeast, (3) wheat, gluten, milk (2), blackberry, brazil, cashew, egg white, lentils, salmon (1), chili pepper, egg yolk, mushroom, pea, peppers, raspberry, string bean (0-1)
We hope to have more info about gluten intolerance in a week from Enterolab.
DH had a touch of something on Saturday. He carried a fever around 99.4-100.4 for 3-4 days or so; a few upper respiratory symptoms and a few body aches. I had a 99.2 fever on Saturday too, but no glaringly obvious symptoms other than feeling a little tired and he seemed to drop to normal really quickly. I don't think DS ran a fever (I only checked once) and he acted normal ... but he did have a bit of a runny bowel movement that day. It correlated with the day we gave him a little flax oil and prune juice so we attributed it to that. Then he didn't poop for 2 days. When he did, it was *really* runny. It wasn't frequent (just 2 movements each day or so) and it wasn't really diarrhea - not watery but like baby poop (pudding texture). There was no rash or allergy signs with the poops and since we had increased fats, I thought maybe that was *his* way of reacting to that plus whatever bug we may have had - but then last night he had a bit of soreness with the poop so now I'm confused. Could be bug, could be related to the consistency being irritating, could be the olive oil, could be the rice milk - aaah! How can there be so many possibilities with so little change in our diet? Update: The soreness seems to have gone today so far (even with a little smeary poo that came out.)
We got DS' IgG results today. Wheat, Gluten (gliaden), Milk were are 2 and on the avoid list. Corn, Carrot, Sunflower Seed, Egg White were between 0 and 1. So, again, we're not sure what to do from here. We're eating carrot and sunflower now and not a lot of variety yet. Do we introduce new stuff in the middle of the reaction that we aren't terribly suspicious of and are 0 reaction on the igG to diversify (and cut back or out the carrots and sunflower)? Or do we wait until the runny poos stop? He has only had one tiny, little smeary poo today but it looked the same consistency. This is only the second time he has ever had runny bowel movements since he started having formed stools and the first time only lasted 5 hours.
One thing we are a little suspicious of, after research, is the Rice Dream rice milk, which is labeled gluten free but apparently processed with Barley. We did eat more of that than usual, as well as some olive oil. The company that makes the olive oil responded to a query saying that they independently assess all of their oils for composition in a laboratory setting. Whether this is truthful or not... I dunno. I have some in the fridge to see if it solidifies.
We're surprised that the nightshades (potato particularly) didn't show up on the IgG but then again, it might be that he is reacting to the glycoalkaloid content -- or maybe the test just missed it? Soy was the only other thing we suspected but also didn't show up on the IgG.
For what is worth, my results showed egg white, lentils (2), milk and egg yolk (1). DH's showed yeast, (3) wheat, gluten, milk (2), blackberry, brazil, cashew, egg white, lentils, salmon (1), chili pepper, egg yolk, mushroom, pea, peppers, raspberry, string bean (0-1)
We hope to have more info about gluten intolerance in a week from Enterolab.
