Need help finding good research- Malabsorption and Building Tolerance

[barnone]

My DD is 33 mos old and has a ton of sensitivities. The main ones are wheat, corn, soy, and dairy. She was eating small amounts of wheat and dairy (like 2-3 servings/week) and was fine. If she ate it every day, the eczema started to come back. I figured her system just needed time to get used to the new food. When she had a small amount of cheese or wheat last year, she got a rash/diarrhea in less than an hour. Now it takes a full week. I thought that was improvement.

The allergist says there is no such thing as "building up a tolerance." He thinks I'm being too picky. And the GI doc says to keep her off the foods all together. He thinks if she is getting an external rxn, that means she's getting an internal one we can't see and that's preventing her from gaining weight (that's a whole other post!). I guess he's talking about malabsorption or leaky gut. Are those the same thing??

So, if anyone can post a link to some research on food sensitivities, I'd appreciate it. I would love to find a reliable, valid research article that I can show the docs.

TIA!
Barbara

[JaneS]

I agree with the internal-external assessment. Even just gluten and dairy a few times a week will continue to put her intestines in a state of inflammation so that the malabsorption just continues without getting a chance to heal. I agree with the fact it could be preventing her from growing or gaining weight.

Yes I think leaky gut is used interchangeably, meaning her food is not getting fully digested, thus preventing nutrients from being absorbed and damaging the intestinal lining, causing food to "leak" through the barrier and thus the immune system reacts to these foreign particles in the blood: allergy.

How did you determine her sensitive foods?

The best books I've come across for kids and allergies and digestion are by Leo Galland and Liz Lipski. There's another one too I cannot remember by a woman nurse, I think I mentioned it in the "Healing the Gut Tribe Cheat Sheet" thread.

As far as building tolerance goes, The Probiotic Revolution book mentions that using high dose probiotics. Leo Galland suggests omega 3 fatty acids (and therefore you should cut out vegetable oils high in omega 6s but I don't think he says that) and a number of other things.

Look into glutamine from homemade bone broths and/or supplements, it is an amino acid which is the primary fuel that the gut lining uses to rebuild itself. A common rec for leaky gut.

But all of those things can't compete with continuing to eat an allergen.