I apologize in advance for the length!
DS (20 months) was sensitive to dairy as a small baby. I cut it out of my diet until he was around 9 months and he could tolerate me eating dairy. Around 1, he could handle eating dairy himself. When he was 14 months old I got pregnant and my milk dried up 6 weeks later. Since then he cannot handle even trace dairy. We eliminated all dairy. Things are better (as in not consistantly terrible), but something else is bothering him too...
I took him off gluten for a few weeks and noticed no changes. I'm thinking that corn is the culprit based on the timing of his reactions--and interestingly enough I have become very sensitive to corn in this pregnancy. My sister had a corn allergy from birth, so perhaps this is genetic?
His symptoms are eczema on his cheeks/around mouth (this crops up every couple of days), digestive issues (also goes in spurts, a few good days a few bad days) where his diapers are the consistancy of breastfed baby poop and yellowish. TMI, but the smell reminds me of puke. Sometimes these diapers are gritty and are very hard to clean. Then we will have a good stretch where he has dark formed poop that I can shake into the toilet.
We haven't done allergy testing on him. The type our naturopath does (provocation/neutralization) would not go over well with him at this age. This is the same reason we haven't done a blood draw--he has some sensory issues and would be very traumatized by being messed with right now. I am getting close to having a blood draw though because I feel like his system is just getting so damaged.
We are doing a probiotic and gut repair given to us by our chiro. So far no change. He had already done a round of this from his ped naturopath of a different variety with mild improvement, but nothing to write home about.
I have been excluding obvious corn from corn meal to corn starch, but not ventured into the more obscure forms. I mostly cook from scratch though, so if it is from trace corn, he sure isn't getting much.
Any ideas? Do the symptoms point to a specific food/type? Clearly he was getting something from my milk that was allowing him to digest properly. Not wanting to do the blood test, what are some other ways I can help figure this out? Do corn allergies usually end up going down to the nitty gritty and getting out EVERYTHING? I'm willing if that's what it takes, I'm just tired of throwing energy in the wrong directions...I'm even toying with finding some donor milk if that is what he needs to get his gut balanced, but I just hate to take it when a little baby could be using it who needs it as their sole nutrition.
TIA mamas
DS (20 months) was sensitive to dairy as a small baby. I cut it out of my diet until he was around 9 months and he could tolerate me eating dairy. Around 1, he could handle eating dairy himself. When he was 14 months old I got pregnant and my milk dried up 6 weeks later. Since then he cannot handle even trace dairy. We eliminated all dairy. Things are better (as in not consistantly terrible), but something else is bothering him too...
I took him off gluten for a few weeks and noticed no changes. I'm thinking that corn is the culprit based on the timing of his reactions--and interestingly enough I have become very sensitive to corn in this pregnancy. My sister had a corn allergy from birth, so perhaps this is genetic?
His symptoms are eczema on his cheeks/around mouth (this crops up every couple of days), digestive issues (also goes in spurts, a few good days a few bad days) where his diapers are the consistancy of breastfed baby poop and yellowish. TMI, but the smell reminds me of puke. Sometimes these diapers are gritty and are very hard to clean. Then we will have a good stretch where he has dark formed poop that I can shake into the toilet.
We haven't done allergy testing on him. The type our naturopath does (provocation/neutralization) would not go over well with him at this age. This is the same reason we haven't done a blood draw--he has some sensory issues and would be very traumatized by being messed with right now. I am getting close to having a blood draw though because I feel like his system is just getting so damaged.
We are doing a probiotic and gut repair given to us by our chiro. So far no change. He had already done a round of this from his ped naturopath of a different variety with mild improvement, but nothing to write home about.
I have been excluding obvious corn from corn meal to corn starch, but not ventured into the more obscure forms. I mostly cook from scratch though, so if it is from trace corn, he sure isn't getting much.
Any ideas? Do the symptoms point to a specific food/type? Clearly he was getting something from my milk that was allowing him to digest properly. Not wanting to do the blood test, what are some other ways I can help figure this out? Do corn allergies usually end up going down to the nitty gritty and getting out EVERYTHING? I'm willing if that's what it takes, I'm just tired of throwing energy in the wrong directions...I'm even toying with finding some donor milk if that is what he needs to get his gut balanced, but I just hate to take it when a little baby could be using it who needs it as their sole nutrition.
TIA mamas
